**Long post, sorry**
Game has been playing great for a few weeks, then 36 hours ago I started seeing really long load times, so I quit for the day. 24 hours ago, I went in to do a short 3 hole practice (to get the daily points) and that took over 45 minutes with the slow loads and numerous loading errors and retrys. Decided I had to clean things up so I cleared Chrome cache and Flash cache and even rebooted.
After reboot, I noticed 2 windows updates available, a Vista something and NVidia driver update. Installed both, rebooted. Loaded WGT website. Flash widget (upper left) took about 3 minutes to load. Clicked play now and gameclient appeared. 35% for a couple of minutes, then 67% for a minute or two, then 86%. After a few minutes of waiting on that with no luck, I closed the gameclient. Retried. This time, a quick number appeared in the green circle, then went away and I'm staring at just the green circle spinning. Waited about 5 minutes and nothing happened, so I X'd out. Cleared caches again. Decided to run CCleaner and Uniblue's Registry booster. Reboot.
No change. Spinning circle up to 86% with clean cache. Without numbers if I don't clean the cache first. Ran Gamebooster and Advanced system care. No change.
After a few hours of this, I thought maybe the windows update screwed me. So I went to a restore point from the day before and restored. Same scenario.
Thought maybe Chrome had gone screwy on me. Tried both Iron and IE, with identical results.
Various combinations of Chrome, Iron, IE, cleaning caches, running CCleaner, registry booster, Gamebooster and advanced system care.
Worked on this from about 1pm my time until around 3am. Even left it on 86% and put in a DVD......by the end of the movie, it was still spinning.
Finally at 3am, thought "one last try". Amazingly, it loaded the menu, but got a loading error saying the sound wouldn't load. Retry load had no effect so closed and retried. After 4 or 5 times, it finally loaded. 3 hole practice took another 45 minutes with all the loading errors......but HEY...IT WORKED. Left myself logged in and called it a night. I was afraid to log out thinking I might not ever get back in .
Tried a round this morning. Played 2 holes (barely), meter going crazy, quit. Deleted another 25-30 friends. Tried again and again. Sometimes sound load errors, sometimes .jpg loading errors, sometimes terrain loading error, but I was able to get in a 3 hole practice to save the consecutive day bonus.
Checked my internet speeds. I'm running the same up, down and ping speeds I've always been running.
I don't know what else to try. Were your servers just jam-packed with people over the weekend? Was there something different that happened 36 hours ago?
It's driving me flippin nuts over here. I'm just a few rounds shy of Legend status (hopefully) and can't bear to shoot 9 holes if it's gonna take me 2-4 hours a side.
Any insight you might have would be greatly appreciated.