facebook farm games

[harley88]

hello folks

i wanted to know if anyone is familiar with the game farmtown or farmville on facebook. i have a problem with something when i play the game, and this old man can explain better if one knows what i am talking about.
if anyone is familiar please let me know.

thanks much
harley

[computeruler]

Whats the problem?

[harley88]

computeruler

hope you are familiar with farmtown because its a little hard for this old man to explain.
when i am harvesting or plowing on farmtown i can only harvest or plow maybe three plots to everybody elses 10, it seem like something using up my cpu but nothing else is running.  i have tried IE6, IE8,chrome, safari and opera they all do the same, i got a 3000MHz cpu and 2GB ram.
have reinstalled firefox my pc is clean (temp, cookie, defrag).
well if you can think of anything i could try let me know.

thanks much
harley

PS could a courpt adobe flashplayer cause it, thing on reinstall it next.

[JamesN]

I play FarmVille and I am lvl 30. Some times there are problems with the server that drives me up the wall... There are not to many problems and its not down for that long. I am happy with it 

[computeruler]

its really buggy still

[reddevilggg]

I play Farmville, it increases my cpu usage up to about 35-40%, although nothing else is running.

[harley88]

JamesN

thanks for your reply, sorry i may have waited to long to reply back.
if its there server making things slow, wouldnt everbody be slow.  someone will hire me and two more folks to harvest or plow 200 plots well by the time i get maybe 10 to 15 plowed/harvest the other two people have finished the rest of it .
i dont have but 1024MB memory in this PC and i noticed that i only have about 600MB free, would this make a differance?
i dont know i got 4GB memory on my gameing PC and it does the same thing.
well this old man is confused about this, think i take to much medicine and its messed up my mind.
if you can think of anything i could try please let me know
thanks much
harley

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[JamesN]

Well when I play on my Mac sometimes it comes up with errors but when I do it on my Window XP laptop it dont... I dont know why it does it, it use to do it all the time but I think it dont help changing screen and stuff. Just keep farmvillie up and down click on lots of other thing and I think it has helped on the Mac. But I am never been sure why it dose it.

[DaveLembke]

I play a bunch of the facebook games. The reason for the problems is that facebook's infrastructure was not planning on the huge success of the games and so at times when many are gaming the free games their servers are struggling.

Also to note that some of the games are working beta's with bugs.

I had some issues for example with Castle Age and was able to solve the majority of the issues ( load times ) by installing a Squid Proxy Server for FREE on my home network and sending my systems through the Web Cache Proxy.

BTW: If anyone wants to add me to their Castle Age Army let me know. I have 8 in my army and need another 4 people to do some quests with requirement of 12 Army members in game friend list.