PokerTracker

So I mentioned before that I have a 2.5 year old laptop w/ 4 GB of RAM and thought this was the reason why NT takes such a long time to compile my notes to the player note box in real time. Normally it takes over 20 hands to show anything, but when it finally does show notes, there will be a bunch all at once shown instead of 1 by 1. After it shows all the notes, it then shows the latest notes about 3-5 hands after the hand is over.

I recently installed 8GB's of Crucial Ballistix RAM (DDR3 PC3-14900 • 10-10-10-30 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1866 • 1.35V •
Speed: 1866 MT/S) which is optimized for the latest fourth-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 mobile processors thinking that this would dramatically decrease the number of hands it would take to start displaying notes. I was hoping this would put an end to having 15 notes pop up all at once after the 20th hand and would result in the notes being displayed say, maybe after 6 hands and afterwards, being displayed after the hand is over.

The only difference I see w/ the new RAM is that instead of taking 20 hands for the notes to show up, it takes about 15 for a single note to be displayed. After this point, it still takes about 3-5 hands for the last note to be displayed. So if I play a hand, for the notes from that hand to be displayed, I have to wait about 5 hands for those notes to be displayed. I know I have a ton of notes but I figured that the upgrade would help immensely but to my surprise, there's almost no change in how they all show at once instead of 1 by 1 and also in the amount of time it takes for new notes to be displayed. How long does it normally take for the latest note to be displayed? Do you have any suggestions on how I can improve the NT's performance?

I don't have metrics for comparison but that does sound a bit long to me, and your machine should be fine. What version of PostgreSQL are you using?

I'm running version 9.3.

You're not playing fast fold poker are you? (Zoom, Rush, etc.)
For those games the hands do not import immediately when you fold (because they can't import until the hand completes for all players) so there would be a delay before you start seeing notes.

If this is for normal tables, how many tables do you play at once? What site(s) do you play? Cash or tournament?

I only play reg. speed 6 max cash on Bovada. I 4 table normally but this happens 1 tabling as well.

Bovada is not a supported site so it's possible that there is a minor problem with the converted hand histories which causes some delays in NoteTracker, but PT4 will not be changed for issues related to non-genuine hand histories.

Oh ok, thanks anyway.

Does it matter if it's changed the HH format from PS to iPoker? Can you suggest anything that might be the issue so I can let the developer know of possible changes that might be needed? I've been giving him feedback for months while the software is getting the bugs worked out. I appreciate your help.

I don't know what might be wrong, I'm afraid. If the hands are exactly the same as the target format then they should work OK, but I couldn't speculate on what type of differences might cause problems.

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.

Not sure how this happened but in my last 2 sessions, notes are started to be displayed around the 10th hand at the earliest... it used to be 20 but it has yet to display a note before the 10th hand of the session. Also, notes are now being displayed 1 by 1 instead of 10-15+ at a time, all at once. I have not messed with any settings at all for months. However, notes are still being displayed at least 5, usually closer to 7-8 hands later after the hand is over. Are there any options I could check to see if I have my settings configured correctly? I'd like to have the notes be displayed as quickly as possible after the last hand is over since I may not catch everything going on 4-tabling. I thought upgrading my RAM would do the trick and since it hasn't fully solved the problem, I can't figure out why there is such a delay in both the time it takes to display the first note and the time it takes to display a note after the hand is over. Any suggestions/ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks again guys.