ForumsSupport Forum[Answered] Lag/Connections playing games on AG but not elsewhere.

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Koshionos
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I noticed something recently, as I was trying to enjoy Bubble Tanks 3, after about 5 minutes, I would get stuck trying to leave a bubble, like clockwork. Then I had a bit of nostalgia, decided to play Fancy Pants 2, every movement would would cause frame rate drops to the point where I could not see him move until he hits a wall.

So I tried something, I went directly to the websites, HeroInteractive and BorneGames. No issues, I could continue playing without any lag, any freezing or crashes.

Could there be a possible connection issue with whatever server AG is using?

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SirLegendary
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@Koshionos The frames dropping may be hardware problem, (though I don't know it would run so smoothly on other sites.) If you can, try incognito mode on those games in AG. It may help.

Koshionos
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Yeah, it ain't hardware (intel i7 processor, 12 GB of RAM, and a 4GB GTX 970 Graphics card). But I'll try incognito, see what happens.

**Update*
Tried incognitus, didn't work.

Now the reason it may run smoothly could be due to being on the home site for those games, but I haven't checked other Flash game sites, like kongre-a-thing-a-ma-jig that I haven't visited in a long time.

Koshionos
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So after testing a few sites that were also hosting Bubble Tanks 3, I did not encounter the same issue that I do here. Unsure as to why.

Ferret
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@Koshionos I've gifted you AFG+, let me know how the experience changes - if it does.

Arm_Candy
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Do these games run slowly on every browser? I have found that certain games here run sluggishly on Chrome, but work more smoothly on Firefox. I just tried Fancy Pants 2 on Chrome, and I did experience lag, but I opened up the game with Firefox just now and it ran perfectly.

Koshionos
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@Ferret, tried it again, same results, I usually have my adblocker turned off for AG, so that rules the ads out... I am in the Seattle area, could location possibly have to do with communicating with the AG servers?

Koshionos
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I tried something else. I pinged Armorgames, and all though there is no packer loss, the time randomly jumps to from 14-16ms to 35 ms, yet other gaming sites are more consistent...

xerox
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Whenever the spambots start to post on the site, my framerate drops and the entire site lags.

Pages load slower, some pages go 404 althrough they still exist, games lag etc.

Ferret
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@Koshionos @xerox I'm at a loss for how to help, it could be connection to our servers somehow. But our servers are running strong, and all my tests are coming up positive.

xerox
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@Ferret Run the tests when the spambots start to post in the forums.

Koshionos
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@Ferret, thanks for looking into it, I'll see what I can find, @xerox, unfortunately, that is improbable to predict.

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