Chess.com has suddenly become really laggy

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Avatar of TomosJe

It's only happened today and yesterday, Otherwise it's been great. But recently I've been getting a really low fps when playing chess. It isn't an internet issue, and it's likely not a hardware issue. Could someone send me a way to fix this or at least a reason for why this is happening?

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TomosJe wrote:

It's only happened today and yesterday, Otherwise it's been great. But recently I've been getting a really low fps when playing chess. It isn't an internet issue, and it's likely not a hardware issue. Could someone send me a way to fix this or at least a reason for why this is happening?

 

Saying it isn't an internet issue, may not be accurate. Issues can occur between you and the site, but not impact your local connection or access to other sites hosted in different locations.

 

Some things you can do to minimize issues: https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues

Avatar of stephenshifflette

I have been having the same issue. My fan comes on as heat builds up and the moves are painfully slow.

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This just became an issue in the last week or so. When I try to open chess.com, I have to wait 1-2 minutes before anything happens. Other websites like Google, eBay, or YouTube open right away, so it's not my computer or connection.

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stephenshifflette wrote:

I have been having the same issue. My fan comes on as heat builds up and the moves are painfully slow.

I am dealing with the same problem angry, especially when I play bullet sometimes the cpu cooked to 100% usage and moves become slow

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Hi, same issue here, crazy thing is when i open chess.com, not only does it lag, but the rest of my PC get's jittery as well, when i restart it and use it without visiting chess.com, my PC works just fine for hours, soon as i come here, my PC ages 10 years immediately

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Same problem here. Any respond from site support?

Avatar of SOUNDWAVE_SUPERIOR21

oh you're facing this problem too? I thought it was just my potato pc.

Avatar of Txominnnn

Same issue here it's awful to play

my CPU is like overheating and the fans on my pc are making so much noise

Avatar of Txominnnn

Ok I just find out how to stop that bug, I changed the skins of my pieces and of the board and i removed the animations

I played a game and it wad to normal and after I put enverything as I use to have and my game was not lagging anymore.

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My issues stopped once I started opening the program in Chrome. Everything works fine now. I tried again on Edge and had the same problems, so it's going to be Chess on Chrome from now on. I hope this helps!

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stephenshifflette wrote:

My issues stopped once I started opening the program in Chrome. Everything works fine now. I tried again on Edge and had the same problems, so it's going to be Chess on Chrome from now on. I hope this helps!

I've always used chess.com on chrome. It was still laggy that day

Avatar of SOUNDWAVE_SUPERIOR21

The problem seems to be solved now tho.

Avatar of gIobalize

Still a present problem. Performance can change from flawless to unplayable within a single game of bullet lol.

Avatar of stephenshifflette

When I switched from Edge to Chrome the lag went away.

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It lags for me on edge

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stephenshifflette wrote:

When I switched from Edge to Chrome the lag went away.

That's unusual since both are variations of open-source Chromium, which is why they look so much alike and extensions made for one will almost always work on the other.

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Anyway, there is no such thing as lag-free internet. When your lag is interfering with your games, and/or you're experiencing disconnects, the problem is almost never on chess.com's end. When it is, it won't just be you having the problem. Servers couldn't play favorites even if they wanted to.

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I’d blame hikarus 100000 friends for slowing down servers. lol
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1AncientConcavenator wrote:
I’d blame hikarus 100000 friends for slowing down servers. lol

I first read this as "I'd blame Heroku's servers for being slow. lol"... lol. (Heroku is a popular web hosting service)