Showing posts with label Cafe World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cafe World. Show all posts

Friday, April 8, 2011

Faster Means Slow

One of the games I play on Facebook has had its share of bugs and glitches. They seemed to have everything fixed up for a long period of time and that was great. Now, whenever you go to start the thing the page says it is now faster than ever because they have listened to the players. Sounds good.
The game now loads slower than ever, like it did at the beginning of my playing it. Sometimes the characters are invisible or they walk backwards. Sometimes the food that I have been cooking is not there! Makes it hard to play the game this way.
Faster now means slower I guess in the tech world. Kind of like new and improved products that seem the same as they were in the first place.
I do hope that the folks at Zynga get it straightened out. I like playing that game but I don't want to spend that much time waiting for everything to load properly.
Do me a favor, tech people...don't improve things. Listen to the old adage, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Monday, March 14, 2011

Cafe World

My wife, my daughter and myself all play on Facebook. We play Farmville and a lovely game, if you can call it a game, called Cafe World. You design your own cafe then cook items in it to serve to customers. It's fun although it can be time consuming.
When I bought my wife her new computer I was certain that it would easily handle the things that she needs to do and those she wants to do, like Cafe World. It has one Gig of RAM and that should be plenty to handle everything. Unfortunately this is not the case.
She can do everything she wants to do except Cafe World. For some strange reason Cafe World sucks up all the available memory then slows the computer down to a snails pace. Yes, eventually Cafe World will load but she has neither the time nor the patience to wait for this glorious occurrence.
Certainly seems odd to me that this program does what it does. Other Zynga games like Farmville don't take up all the memory and slow things down that much. They do take a lot of memory but Cafe World is the worst. This makes my wife sad as she really loved doing her cafe in the past.
I am hoping that things will change. I saw somewhere recently that some Linux programming people were going to work at Zynga. Perhaps they can fix Cafe World so that it runs well on an ordinary computer instead of the high speed, super-duper server that the current programmers must be using.
Actually I think if the current people got rid of some of the junk that they feel must be loaded each and every time one goes to their cafe the silly thing wouldn't require so much memory to run.