freezing during game?

[bwt1213]

I thought it was just my computer. My game freezes and I can still hear when it accepts a good word or rejects the word. Then when it unfreezes the words I have typed are there as far as I can tell. I have had it freeze to the point that I get a pop up saying the game is finished and to start a new game without me being able to see any stats or information.

I thought about what you said, and it's your computer. When you're playing the game you're not communicating with the website; that happens only when you submit the game. So, your symptoms suggest that there is a process running on your computer that is taking up pretty much all of the CPU. If you're running Windows, run Task Manager to see what things are running and which one is the culprit. On my old Windows machine, that was usually the anti-virus software or some obscure Windows housecleaning task. I can remember exactly the breaking point for me: Windows LOVED to do updates, which I'd schedule for 3AM so they'd be unobtrusive. Come 10AM and I wanted to use my computer -- but I couldn't. Something connected to the update was still running and using 100% of the CPU. Even worse, as time went on and the updates continued I couldn't even run Task Manager any more; there wasn't enough CPU left to do disk reads. And the computer wasn't usable for a whole day after an update. So I downloaded Linux Mint and threw away everything on that computer (no, that wasn't a particularly smart thing to do, but I was UPSET). And that computer is running great since then, and I update it when I please, and I can and do play WordTwist on it and run everything else I used to run, and it doesn't need an anti-virus. In short, what you describe sounds like what I saw in the early stages of the Windows Blight, before I'd figured out where the slowdowns were coming from. I really hope that's not the case with you, but DO run Task Manager and note what programs are using up all your CPU. But if you decide that you want to move to Linux, take your time and save everything important first -- and make really sure you understand exactly what you're doing and when.