My adobe flash works perfectly - but it DOES require regular maintenance!
How so?
When we visit almost any sight that contains videos, especially Zynga on Facebook (which is where I first discovered WGT), videos that get loaded into flash accumulate in flash memory. Forget for a moment that in your game play screen that when you right click and tag settings (not global settings, but settings) it tells you that your adobe flash is currently using 16KB. What it doesn't tell you is that your flash memory could be crammed with all those cityville, slingo, bubble island, etc, .... porn, ads, recently watched TV shows or movies, and/or thousands of other things, such that the total memory in flash has ballooned to several megabytes!
(My cityville crashes with regularity because Zynga makes too many flash entries to the server until it can't catch up. And sure enough, when I go into tools/task manager, there is the resident adobe flash showing megabytes of memory in use! Even as I write this, I'm already up to 104 megs!
But since I have WIN XL's maximum usable 4Gigs, and I allocate unlimited to flash, I never run into problems here at WGT. (But all these ads that I need to view to gain free credits open "spy" files that can also be a pain in the ***, so I use SPYBOT daily to remove them! It's a 10-15 minute process on my system, but it can run concurrently while you play or surf. ( http://softdownloads.com/spybot-and-spyware-doctor/?gclid=CID59M6i4bACFQjf4AodGRbg0A ) This is FREE! I have also changed my computer settings to make all spyware potential requests pop on my screen as "accept or not" and I choose NOT. It does not affect the credits they will earn me for viewing them! When I first ran Spybot, it would catch and I would order removed some thirty files daily until I discovered the option to refuse to allow them into my memory. I hardly even need spybot anymore because by removing them as they occur, none get through to memory!
Now, if you ask, "How can I empty that crammed flash memory?" One answer is to close the browser entirely, which takes you off this site. Another way is to use tools/task manager and in the bottom right corner of THAT screen is the option to end process. But when you do that, you will get the message that adobe flash has crashed, and you'll still have to close and re-open your browser! So it behooves everyone to enter WGT with an newly opened browser, unless they have a third choice.
Right after all my video viewing and maintenance, when I'm ready to actually play golf here, I will conclude my visit by ending the flash process (to make sure those megs are gone) and re-opening my (Chrome) browser to get back into WGT and golf.
So when WGT suggests that you allocate at least 100 Kb to flash, they are being kind and only inviting a relative minimum because some systems, if they contain too much flash memory usage, might suffer in other processing areas, like stutter in the power bar. (The few times I have had that problem were always in the local 5-8 PM dinner time / computer time area when my ISP was overloaded. I have since changed ISPs and have not had the problem since doping so.)
Lastly, all PCs suffer from fragmentation. (I'm told MAC systems, less so).
Fragmentation occurs when a file has new data added into it but the next contiguous place in memory is already in use, which causes the file manager to open another area on the disk to store the newly created data. The defragmentation program supplied by WINDOWS ...blows bigger then the winds at St. Andrews! It often takes hours, and the default for analysis reading is set too liberally, saying that defragmentation is not necessary when there are tens of thousands of fragmented files, ALL of which slow each PC down a fraction!
I'm on the net perhaps more than most people, so when I tell you that I accumulate hundreds of fragmented files daily (and over thousands per week), and my contact at Amazon programming warned me not to let them accumulate too much, I let him tell me about ULTRA-Defrag (infinitely better then WIN's resident defragger).
The first time I did a complete defragmentation, it modified over 5000 files and took hours - but he warned me that it might happen and I did it when I went to sleep, letting the computer work alone. After that, I do at least one (NOT total defrag but) simple defrag daily which just defrags newly created fragmented files.This minimal defrag often takes seconds to a minute, so I often do it while waiting for another played to load a hole, when their system is delaying. And this can all be done from the WGT screen which doesn't even interfere with the game play screen. I can take a shot in alternate while defragmenting! ( http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net ). I highly endorse it!
Okay, one more item...
Should your power bar stutter, train yourself to avoid trying to force the shot - pretend the stutter is like an electric shock - release the mouse, as in DON'T press for the ding at all! Let the thing go, the golfer will swing through the ball, nothing will move, and most importantly, no shot will be charged. It becomes a practice swing!
All these steps combined have decreased any blips that I might encounter to a minimum. I hope it does the same for you.