retchiefme:
My question is this. Is the thousands of dollars I have invested in this game gone when Flash is no longer an option?
What recourse do I have to continue with WGT on my computer? I do not wish to play on my Android. It would be nice to get a human response with legitimate answers.
I went through pretty much the same thing since about mid Nov when there was a WGT update. I played the PC version for about a year with not many issues and then I couldn't.
I have a long list of what I did and what I had done to my computer to get WGT to run and can say, it was nothing on my end. Downloading Steam then re-installing the app did nothing for me except add more frustration.
Given that, here are some things you can check and/or do.
run an internet speed test on your computer just to make sure there's not an issue with your connection, here's a link to a site - https://www.speedtest.net/
Uninstall the App and then Search your computer for wgt and topgolf files and delete them
Clear your browser and Flash caches - here's a link for instructions on how to do them both, pretty much ignore everything until you get to If you experience an error message when loading the game - https://www.wgt.com/forums/p/635/2552.aspx
Once you clear the caches, reinstall the app and give it a try, hopefully that will do the trick.
If not, find Launcher in your Program Files and then find the Golf.exe file and click on it. Doing so bypasses the Launcher and will load the game faster. It's the way I access the game now with much better results, I just put a shortcut on my desktop for it. Hopefully it works for you!
Note: Do Not move the golf.exe file out of it's folder on purpose on by mistake. If you do, the app will not work at all due to it not being able to find it. No need to ask me how I know :-p
After spending a lot of time, and money, trying to get WGT to work, I sent Member Services a detailed list of what myself and others did. I got a standard form letter back saying to try things I already had on the list. I responded with please read the list of what was done on my end before sending the standard response. I guess they did read and although I haven't received a response, the PC version started running near perfect again.
I think what they did was reroute the connection in my area to a different hub that is less used than the one I was previously hooked to.
Good Luck!