Briggs Softworks

Is there any possibility for a feature in which opening a new table ring can be done into a new tab/browser window? This would greatly help my players who are accustomed to desktop clients and play multiple games on multiple monitors. Currently all games must be played on one monitor since they are restricted to one browser window.

Thank you!

Poker Mavens operates in a single browser tab to minimize server load. If each table (and the lobby) operated in separate tabs or windows then they would all require a separate connection back to the server. And each connection requires its own thread and threads are resource intensive. Also note that you can stretch a browser window across multiple monitors.

Having run mavenbots on my server I can tell you that every little thing adds load to the server and to keep things reasonably priced you have to balance priorities.. Not only that but Kent the other issue with server load would be load upon the network gateway of the poker server.. Each additional window/connection would add to the incoming and outgoing packets and could easily bottleneck the network connection and slowing things down on the server depending on what kind of speed they have.. Mostly this shouldn't be a problem if somebody has a decent VPS or dedicated server they are running it on but if youre running the poker server on a non-dedicated machine such as at home (especially if you don't have a 100Mbps connection) and even on a dedicated PC or laptop if your internet connection at home is highly leveraged with lots of streaming audio, video which is very common these days your poker server could turn into the electronic equivalent of Rush Hour in Los Angeles on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend.

Thank you for getting back to me! That makes sense, since each additional browser window would need an additional websocket. I'm investigating creating a desktop client that plugs into your websockets API so I would be able to get around this and maintain one websocket for multiple windows.