FarmVille 2 question

[sbuster0922]

My mom loves to play farmville and my step dad bought them both brand new computer from cyberpower both with amd fx-4300, 8gb of Team Elite ram, and a gt 720(I think he wasted $600 each...) but the problem is farmville takes forever to load. They have the fastest internet xfinity offers. What could be the problem?

FX-4300, 8gb of team elite ram and a gt 720 500w power supply windows 8.1, toshiba 1tb hdd 7200rpm. the computer is brand new. CPU is running at 11 C, GPU at 37 C, and hdd at 29 C. Also while it's loading it doesn't use more than 50% cpu usage or ram usage.

 

[i7Baby]

Do you meet the game requirements? (as I posted above)

 

[USAFRet]

Do you meet the game requirements? (as I posted above)

The game requirements:
"At least a Dual-Core processor (AMD or Intel)"
The FX-4300, being a quad, would seem to meet this

"4 GB of RAM"
'8gb of Team Elite ram'

Again, the OP's system meets

This is probably not a hardware issue, except as relates to too much other crap running, consuming resources.

 

[i7Baby]

Check in Task Manager as to what processes are running. See if you can be sure its OK to uninstall any.

 

[rubix_1011]

Again, Farmville 2 is a web-based game, is it not? Most of the content is loaded from the internet, correct? I still stand by the fact that it could very well be the ISP connection as nothing else has been mentioned about that. Just 'paying' for faster internet doesn't mean you're actually getting it. There also could be other issues at play, which is why I suggested that OP perform some connectivity testing.

 

[sbuster0922]

Check in Task Manager as to what processes are running. See if you can be sure its OK to uninstall any.

I guess I'm not being clear enough. When the game is running it(farmville/firefox) uses around 75% of the cpu usage and around 40% ram.

 

[sbuster0922]

Again, Farmville 2 is a web-based game, is it not? Most of the content is loaded from the internet, correct? I still stand by the fact that it could very well be the ISP connection as nothing else has been mentioned about that. Just 'paying' for faster internet doesn't mean you're actually getting it. There also could be other issues at play, which is why I suggested that OP perform some connectivity testing.

I'm getting 37 ms ping, 60mbps download, and 11 mbps upload speeds through speedtestnet. 23 ms ping, 60 mbps download, and 11mbps upload speeds through xfinity speed test. 58 mbps download 11 mbps upload through speakeasy speed test. 60 mbps download, 12 mbps upload through att speed test. what other tests do you want? when I update and download games I get a peak of 10mbps.

 

[rubix_1011]

Yep, you're good on ISP connectivity to those test servers, so I'd assume if you're even getting a fraction of that to the Farmville servers, you're still in good shape.

Virus scan running? Does it ever load in decent time, or is it consistently bad? In the first post you said the CPU loads at 50%, but now you're saying its 75%...does it just spike to 75%? 7200rpm drive isn't an SSD, but it shouldn't be a huge issue. Do you have other games installed? If so, what is loading time on them...normal...also slow?

Starting to wonder if this is a common Farmville 2 issue or not....and actually...Google returns a lot of pages that seem to discuss Farmville 2 being very slow and sluggish to start or connect to online servers.

 

[i7Baby]

Check in Task Manager as to what processes are running. See if you can be sure its OK to uninstall any.

I guess I'm not being clear enough. When the game is running it(farmville/firefox) uses around 75% of the cpu usage and around 40% ram.

There'll be other stuff running too - in the background. 'Bloatware' might be some of it as USAF said.

Those usages are OK.

 

[delaro]

What could be the problem?

Basic stuff to consider here that seems to be overlooked.

1. Did you try what I suggested earlier? It seems that was completely ignored.
2. Lose McAfee is sucks in all shapes and forms, If you want something free to take it's place consider Bitdefender, Avast and Panda 2015 all three do a great job.
3. Which Browser is this game being played on? Performance for Flash games can be hugely impacted by changing browsers. Consider using Firefox and IE for these games or Chrome with the following tweaks.
4. Antivirus Virus Game mode, Make sure this stays ON with updates sometimes it gets turned off in nearly all AV's.
5. Pop-up or ad blocking software can slow down Flash games consider those settings.
6. Wired or Wireless connections, if Wireless consider Powerline adapters.
7. Adobe Flash Player and JAVA SE make sure you have the latest versions.
8. Video drivers are they updated to the most Stable version. "Non Beta"

Chrome 42 and above can be speed up by doing the following.
A) Enter the following address into Google Chrome's address bar: chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
B) Click the Enable flag for "Enable NPAPI"
C) Relaunch Chrome

Disabling the PPAPI plugin:
D) On Google Chrome's Address Bar, type in chrome://plugins
E) Look for PPAPI and click on Disable
F) Refresh the page, re-launch Google Chrome

 

[sbuster0922]

What could be the problem?

Basic stuff to consider here that seems to be overlooked.

1. Did you try what I suggested earlier? It seems that was completely ignored.
2. Lose McAfee is sucks in all shapes and forms, If you want something free to take it's place consider Bitdefender, Avast and Panda 2015 all three do a great job.
3. Which Browser is this game being played on? Performance for Flash games can be hugely impacted by changing browsers. Consider using Firefox and IE for these games or Chrome with the following tweaks.
4. Antivirus Virus Game mode, Make sure this stays ON with updates sometimes it gets turned off in nearly all AV's.
5. Pop-up or ad blocking software can slow down Flash games consider those settings.
6. Wired or Wireless connections, if Wireless consider Powerline adapters.
7. Adobe Flash Player and JAVA SE make sure you have the latest versions.
8. Video drivers are they updated to the most Stable version. "Non Beta"

Chrome 42 and above can be speed up by doing the following.
A) Enter the following address into Google Chrome's address bar: chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
B) Click the Enable flag for "Enable NPAPI"
C) Relaunch Chrome

Disabling the PPAPI plugin:
D) On Google Chrome's Address Bar, type in chrome://plugins
E) Look for PPAPI and click on Disable
F) Refresh the page, re-launch Google Chrome

I'll try those few things and McAfee works great, Except the site advisor. Plus McAfee is free for a year from my credit union. Also I did try what you mentioned earlier. As I think I stated earlier after I diabled siteadvisor it sped up noticeably and I switched back to fire fox because it supports java.

 

[delaro]

Also consider this, Zynga servers get real slow around peak hours so even with everything on your end running like a Top you will still see noticeable Loading issues. I'm sure all the layoffs they had has nothing to do with that. 😛

 

[Vice93]

Finish downloading all Windows Updates and make sure there are no new ones. Then try Farmville again.

My laptop was running at 100% disk usage thanks to me not updating, and installing them all solved the utterly slow chrome speed it had.

 

[logainofhades]

I agree with getting rid of McAffee. Horrible software.