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[ellshere]

TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT FARMTOWN
1. Flash animations, like those used in Farm Town, have a tendency to frequently time out on a dial up connection. Flash occupies a lot of your internet bandwidth and may cause Farm Town to take a long time to load. Hence, you will almost always have issues with dial-up.
2. The more you add to your farm the riskier it will become for people at lower levels of RAM. Anyone with 2GB of RAM for XP or OSX and 3-4 for Vista should be fine on most farms.
3. It has also become apparent that, the more animals, overlaps and green hedges you have on your farm, the more problems this will create because of the amount of flash required. Other farmers entering your farm may find it extremely difficult to walk around and harvest for you as it will slow down their Avatars.
4. Regular computer maintenance is very important for Farm Town to work properly. JayG provided a great Computer Hygiene thread. Cleaning your Cache is crucial on the minimum of once daily.

U00 & CANT CONNECT TO MAINFRAME
SYMPTOMS: Cannot see others in the market, chat messages not coming through
REASON: the MPS (Media Processing Server?) is overloaded
WORKAROUND: None advised.
SOLUTION: Clicking the green ok and you should reconnect, unless the server is under extreme strain. Firewalls & routers may also be blocking your connection.

XLINK
REASON: DB or WEB servers are overloaded or your internet connection has failed
WORKAROUND: None advised.
SOLUTION: Clicking the green ok and you should reconnect, unless the server is under extreme strain. Firewalls & routers may need to be reset.

TIMEOUTS
REASON: #1 reason is people try to go faster than their current connection can handle. Slow internet connections, low memory pc's or a minimal pc at an overloaded farm of animals and or hedges. And of course overloaded servers are an issue with this error at times as well.
WORKAROUND:
1. Make sure you are waiting for coins to be added before clicking on new fields. DO NOT repeatedly click again, if it says BUSY, then it is.
2. Right click on screen, set quality to low.
3. Work from North to South or North to West
4. Turn off music, buildings, trees & flowers. Freeze animals, & Unclick follow
Avatar
5. Regularly clear your Cache
6. Click SAVE and the reconnect may disappear, just be certain you are still getting paid.
7. WORK OFFLINE & If possible let the farm owner know before you do it & the owner may need to refresh to see their harvest in storage. Also I would only recommend this if you are the ONLY harvester, or the crops have been equally divided between the harvesters. (If not, then you run into issues with not receiving coins)
8. Buddy up or send farmer a note asking them to reply, so you have a way back to the farm.

F01
REASON: This typically means that your router, firewall, or antivirus program is blocking Farm Town.

RUNTIME ERRORS
REASON: In most cases, runtime errors are actually problems in your Windows system rather than the program trying to operate and are subsequently causing the error message.
A common source of runtime errors is a corrupt registry which causes programs to malfunction. For example, the runtime error #7 which means a memory problem may not really have anything to do at all with a shortage of memory on your computer - rather is could be a problem resting in the file structure of your computer which causes your program to malfunction. Ask Nerd.net Please note that this take you off the forum to a techy site, which I find very useful.

X025
REASON: X025 is the nastiest error ever hit. More than most, X025 seems to relate to issues communicating over the Internet you usually get it when your ISP decides you have been online too long and disconnects. Therefore you need to minimize the amount of Internet traffic to and from your computer.
WORK AROUND: None

Tips to minimize these errors:
1. Do not run other applications while playing FT, especially if they access the Internet. CLOSE your email program. Don't run chat programs (except maybe Facebook's chat feature). Do not run more than one browser window. Don't try to download files in the background. Don't even try to play music stored on your hard drive! As far as possible FT must be the only thing your computer is doing.
2. If your browser uses tabs, do not have more than one tab (your FT tab) open at a time. Running multiple tabs is less risky than running multiple browser windows, but every tab uses memory and bandwidth. It's tempting to read the forum or surf while your avatar sits in the Marketplace, but if you do you risk a connection error.
3. (The advanced option.) Close down unnecessary "services" and processes, where you can identify them, especially if they like to talk to some home base across the Internet A lot of programs (FTP, Messenger, etc) like to run a little "stub" in the background so that when you open them they open faster; but everything uses memory and bandwidth. The more RAM and bandwidth that is used by such wasters, the less is available for Flash (Farm Town uses Flash); and once FT starts using virtual memory (your hard drive) an error is often not far away.
4. Things not to close unless really, really desperate: firewall, antivirus and antispyware.

GREEN SCREEN
REASON: This seems to be 100% server related.
WORKAROUNDS: Try connecting through your neighbors to access a different server.

STUCK ON LOADING USER
REASON: Sometimes it's as simple as clearing your Cache, but other times it is more complicated.
The developers have stated the following are possible reasons:
Double stacked plots
Stacked items such as trees planted over fields
A large number of hedges
An antivirus or firewall program blocking some part of Farm Town from loading.
WORKAROUND: Farm town won't Load

ASSERT IN LSP
REASON: Error in Google Desktop application.
WORKAROUND: Disable Google Desktop.

The moderation team would like to thank Snappy Dungarees for gathering all of this information into one place. Without her help this post would not be possible.

[Molly Mew]

Answers to the questions in this thread can be found in the Top Post

Here are some solutions to problems with the messaging system:

1. When the messaging system is stuck at "Loading", depending on what browser you're using, delete your history and clear your browser's cache (Firefox). For Internet Explorer - delete the temporary files and history.
2. Make sure you're computer has the version of flash installed that was released last month, and make sure Java is up to date as well. Alternatively add a second browser to a computer and see if you can access your messages via an alternate path.
3. A good suggestion to bear in mind is to always check your neighbour bar when entering your farm BEFORE trying to read messages waiting. If you bar only has two neighbours visible and 1's in the rest of the spaces DON'T try to open your messages. This is when the error occurs and it sits on Loading. I normally go to a neighbours farm to tend and by the time I am done the neighbour bar is back to normal and I am able to open and read my messages without a problem. If you have accidentally already clicked on your messages and are stuck with the Loading message then try what another forum user suggested: Leave that browser open and open Farm Town in another browser e.g. if you logged on originally in Firefox, minimize that screen and log in to Facebook again on Internet Explorer. Go to your farm and access your messages (remember to check your neighbour bar first). Once you have read them you can shut the alternate browser down.
4. Please bear in mind that you cannot send a message when you are in full screen mode. This is a flash limitation and cannot be corrected by the developers of Farm Town.
5. If your neighbour or buddy are not receiving messages you have left for them, get them to check that they haven't accidentally Ignored or blocked your avatar. This can happen accidentally without users being aware of it. Once you have been blocked the other person cannot see messages you leave on their farm wall, or see what you type in their chat screen.
6. Let your farm fully load before opening your messages.

The message system history retains 10 messages at a time and these will be overwritten as new messages arrive in your inbox.

[pg tips]

try going to the inn or the realtor office to open the message i had the same problem a message that wouldnt load out my mail box went to the market place and read it there

[menenriqueiglesias]

nopes its not helping even there ..

[menenriqueiglesias]

any one gonna help me out here the messages are incresing everyday and i cant open them..

Originally Posted by menenriqueiglesias

i dont know whats wrong happening with my farm today . Just half an hour ago i hired few people for harvest and plow in my farm. Though the job was well finished but i guess one of them had spread some spam or something am not sure about it. its actually a "message" in my inbox, whenever i try to open my inbox to read it, it jst doesnt open, i.e., keep on loading and when u try to close it the game just asks for reload, i mean if u click on the save option it would ask you to reload the game .??? and the problem is only when you try to open the message till now, other then that u can play and save everything u do if u dont try to open it, am just afraid it wont cause much of trouble and get sorted out. Moderators please help me out ..



http://www.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=269602

[Double T Dude Ranch]

Empty your cache... make sure you have the latest flash player.

[menenriqueiglesias]

thanks for the reply
i dont really know how to do it for google chrome ??
any idea ..

[Double T Dude Ranch]

Originally Posted by menenriqueiglesias

thanks for the reply
i dont really know how to do it for google chrome ??
any idea ..

Let me get the directions.... here they are: Google Chrome
1. Click on the wrench in the toolbar.
2. Select clear browsing data.
3. Check the boxes to select what to remove, history, cache etc.
4. Choose a time option.
5. Click clear.

[menenriqueiglesias]

thanks again
but it dint helped at all

Originally Posted by Double T Dude Ranch

Let me get the directions.... here they are: Google Chrome
1. Click on the wrench in the toolbar.
2. Select clear browsing data.
3. Check the boxes to select what to remove, history, cache etc.
4. Choose a time option.
5. Click clear.

[Farmer Kia]

Hi!
Back on Farmtown after not playing in nearly three months. I had a lot of messages waiting for me, nice, but the last 13 do not open.

This is a problem for me sins only the last 10 are stored, so i can never go back to a message after its read. I hope someone comes up with an idea to solution on this.

I have the latest flash player and my browsers cache is cleared.