@paladin: What resources? RAM? Ok, RAM. He has24GB of those. He can check in Task Manager to see if ANYTHING is coming close to filling that. He's using Internet Explorer 32-bit, which cannot address more than 2GB of RAM.
Internet? He has a 1mbit Sodetel connection. Why doesn't he upgrade that??
MrClass wroteThough to be even with the guy, some flash games do halt in the browser when a lot of objects in the game are performing some kind of action/animation. Remember the Master Potatoes flash game that most of us played? Well when you reach very high levels, the game gets very laggy cause hundreds of objects are moving. Even my rig couldn't handle the pressure and Firefox almost froze/crashed several times (became not responding, but then came back to life). I checked my CPU and RAM consumption back then; CPU load was merely 10% but RAM consumption for just a browser that has a flash game loaded was crazy; almost 1.5GB of RAM used.
Fine then, if CPU load is just 10% and RAM used is 1.5 (say 2GB, I still have 6GB RAM left to use right?); only then the lagging got to be from the game itself. Note that playing the game doesn't need internet, loading it does. The game downloads the flash file and runs it in cache mode.
So how to solve this? Well, contact the developers and tell them to redevelop the game and optimize it to run on multiple CPU cores or something. Not quite knowledgeable about farmville, but if it only runs when having an active internet connection, then probably ask the guy to contact his ISP and get a dedicated connection. Finally, perhaps he can try the game in an other OS like Linux or Mac and/or another internet browser.
Don't tell me he uses IE cause IE can't run shit.
You're very right. Dude I swear I told him. I told him that I'd chop my arms off if his GPU usage was above 10% and CPU usage above 20%. I told him to download GPU-Z and check. I told him to access task manager and check for iexplore.exe. He's running a 32-bit version of Internet Explorer! It can't address more than 2GB of RAM! And you just said it, it doesn't even come close to bottlenecking on your own hardware. It's just not optimized. He has 24GB of RAM!! An i7 960, which is one generation above your Q6600, and 50% more single-threaded performance. RAM @1866MHz tri-channel! GTX 480 is at least 50% faster than the GTX 280. I have a GTX 260 and I'm still running high-end games properly.
Also, who said those flash games are GPU accelerated? He's getting 2 x 7970s. As if Crossfire supports anything that is not fullscreen and included in its CAP profiles. Neither Nvidia. MULTI-CARD requires fullscreen mode for Alternate Frame Rendering or Split Frame Rendering. Period!!
He has 1mbit Sodetel connection. Nuff said.
I'm outta here...
