Hi rdynor,
1. The biggest problem is that some automatic badges and notes/graphs seem to randomly disappear, and then reappear some time later. For example, one player would go from having 5 badges, to one badge, and then back to 5 badges. A group would go from having a bunch of notes to being completely blank, and then coming back with the original notes. It seems like NC is trying to display the image, but it either can't find the image or tries to display a non-existing image. My system has plenty of available RAM, and I have the RAM drive option enabled, so it should not be a performance issue.
It sounds like maybe the game sizes are changing, which would show different notes. By default NoteCaddy separates the notes based on these game sizes: HU, 3-6, 7+. So if you're at a table with 7 players, and then it goes to 6-handed, all of those notes from 7+ handed will not display anymore. This is a configurable setting in NoteCaddy → File → Settings → Partitions.
2. New badges sometimes don't show up until several hands after the note was created. This is possibly related to the first issue. NC processes new hands and reports that it is finished creating new notes within seconds of import, so again, I don't believe that this is performance related.
This is normal because NC stores the notes on cache for performance reasons. The cache rebuilds every few minutes, and that's when the notes will update. There is a setting in NoteCaddy → File → Settings → Data Settings 'Cached note timeout' which you can lower, and it should make your stats update faster I think (at the expense of more system resources being used).
3. At times, NC gets stuck at processing hands (particularly when I am importing a backlog of tournaments) and never reaches the "finished" stage. It stops creating notes on new hands, and is not using any CPU time. If I click "Stop", it hangs at "Stopping" and never finishes. The only way to reset is to close PT4 and begin importing again.
That is kind of strange. You may want to try creating a new database in PT4 and/or resetting your NC settings to see if the issue resolves itself:
*Resetting PT4 NC Settings Back To Factory Defaults*
1. Close PT4 and navigate to: C:\Users\[WindowsUsername]\AppData\Local\PokerTracker 4\Data\AppsData\Tm90ZUNhZGR5.
2. Make a backup of the .xml files (copy/move them somewhere else on your pc).
3. Delete the .xml files from the directory in step 1.
4. Restart PT4, go into NoteCaddy and adjust your settings as you prefer again (File → Settings).
5. If you use customized Color Definitions, then import the ColorDefinitions.xml that you backed up from step 2, into NoteCaddy → Tools → Import Color Definitions.
6. Reset and reprocess the notes (File → Reset Notes).
4. Popups are going off the edge of the screen when the table is on the bottom right corner of the screen.
What sort of popups are going off the screen? Are they things that are created by NoteCaddy? Or is it just a PT4 popup (in which case it should be mentioned in a different forum). If it's not too much trouble, can you please share a screenshot of this (if it relates to NC)?
5. I have hands in my database that don't go to showdown but villain shows the winning hand. NC does not seem to be using this information for the hand range in notes and graphs. Is it the "Player Had To Show Down" checkbox that is causing this behavior? If so, do I need to go into every definition and turn this off, or is there another way to force NC to use known hole card information in non-showdown hands?
If you open a note definition in NC and go to 'Pre Flop' → 'General', turn on the setting 'Allow non shown down hands to count for ranges'. You'll get prompted if you'd like to set this option for all note definitions. After you do it, you will want to reset your notes and reprocess them (File → Reset Notes).