borntobesting:
Contrary to what a lot of people think the meter runs exclusively on your computer. If your meter is that bad you have a problem with your computer.
Check how much ram you have. 2 gig or less will give you trouble with your meter
Wrong and not so wrong...
The meter does not run on your computer, it is a Flash asset playing within the container window 'playing' within the browser on your computer. This game does not install any assets on your computer there is nothing is actually running as executing code as part of an installed game on your computer.
What is running on your computer and what is taxing the resources be that CPU/GPU and networking will most definately affect the meter. The meter is a Flash asset which plays based on your intetaction with it, your shot results are based on several interaction feeds from wgt servers plus whatever AS code they wrote which determine what type of shot result you get based on where you 'stop on the meter,' thereby setting a trigger point.
If the game loaded the meter and the required assets on your machine you'd be able to play locally with no connection. You can't because it requires server data to be fed back to the meter for instance. The ability to feed the data back and forth without packet loss, jitter or lag will affect how that meter animation plays, what you see as the meter moves toward the ding, if you've got a bad connection, or your AV is scanning you'll more than likey have issues - changing the game or flipping browsers will likely not make much difference and if it does that's a local issue. Nothing WGT is doing is actively buggering up your browser, most of those issues are created by changes to the browser, how it's handling Flash for instance.
As for the ram issue, again, wrongish... This game is not memory taxing, your comptuer might be starved, and that can cause caching issues, but the game doesn't require much ram in itself to play.
I played for a long time on a stock Lenovo T61 with 1gb of ram, wifi.. never had any meter glitching, not the skipping type etc.... What I did have was a clean connection. I also played on a machine with 16GB of ram, 7th gen i7, SLi'd video, SSD's.. Game was unplayable and that was cabled direct to a cisco switch from that same connection...
The game doesn't care about your massively over-powered killer rig, in fact it laughs at it and gives gives it the finger...