Bullet Glitching!

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KoolHatter

I need to know whether this glitch is upon my device solely or on the part of the website:

Whenever I play bullet, I note that whenever it is my turn the clock pauses and stalls and suddenly I find myself with 20 seconds or so deducted from the total time left. It changes often and is really infuriating. One second I have 30 seconds left and my opponent has just run out, and then it switches and I have no time left at all. Other times I run out of time and then look up to find I have 12 seconds without moving. It does not seem to be connected with internet problems. I have lost way too many games with winning positions to this error. If the site can fix this please do it quick. 

Chris_E_S3

Hi Kool Hatter,

I had that problem as well but haven't seen it in a month or so. Try to have lots of available RAM. I found it was related to the internet. If I only had 1 or 2 bars, this happened more than if I had 4 bars of connectivity.   

KoolHatter
Chris_E_S3 wrote:

Hi Kool Hatter,

I had that problem as well but haven't seen it in a month or so. Try to have lots of available RAM. I found it was related to the internet. If I only had 1 or 2 bars, this happened more than if I had 4 bars of connectivity.   

That may very well be it! Only thing is I know I had four bars last time it happened. I shall apply your RAM suggestion, thanks!

Chris_E_S3

I have told chess.com about this problem. They didn't really have an answer. They suggested to go into your settings and switch the connection from "Automatic" to "long polling" and "Live2". But it made no difference. 

You can get rating points refunded for this. 

Chris_E_S3

Also, try closing your web browser and reopening it. 

Martin_Stahl
KoolHatter wrote:

I need to know whether this glitch is upon my device solely or on the part of the website:

Whenever I play bullet, I note that whenever it is my turn the clock pauses and stalls and suddenly I find myself with 20 seconds or so deducted from the total time left. It changes often and is really infuriating. One second I have 30 seconds left and my opponent has just run out, and then it switches and I have no time left at all. Other times I run out of time and then look up to find I have 12 seconds without moving. It does not seem to be connected with internet problems. I have lost way too many games with winning positions to this error. If the site can fix this please do it quick. 

 

https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues