*Rolls eyes*
My PT results are 847. My graphics are integrated, no Direct X 11 or hardware acceleration.
My meter works fine.
Common sense is fine, great, in fact, but does not explain how computers and programs work. I remember when I took basic electronics. There were a lot of water flow analogies, as well as analogies where one was supposed to look at the atom as a sort of mini solar system. Great. But the first time you hit quantum mechanics you want to curl up in a fetal position and suck your thumb. Who wants to walk out their front door and find themselves right back inside? Probability and common sense says it can't happen. When it does I'm gonna voluntarily put myself in the strait jacket. Meanwhile I have to deal with diodes which intentionally permit current flow when they're "not supposed to."
Obviously, internet communication is an important part of the game. After all, it runs in a browser and has to get photos and contours and such over the net, and send results back. Trying to do that while working the swing meter DOES impact things. That's why you turn off background loading if you're having problems, and anything else that wants CPU time. If you've got a good enough system you don't have problems, don't bother. If you do have problems, you have to make YOUR system be able to handle the swing meter
If you DO have problems, then you've got to get other operations out of the way. Don't talk to WGT while swinging. Don't stream stuff. Don't let your system be defragging your disk or cleaning out your temp files or downloading updates or anything else but monitoring important interrupts or events that are essential to the working of the system.
Unless they undertake serious and expensive reworking of the basic structure of the program, WGT has two options: encourage you to make your system work with the current limitations, or slow down the swing meter. On the side, they have to make sure that Flash doesn't seriously cripple their own product again, without warning. Believe me, WGT wasn't the only casualty when they made an upgrade and got it wrong. There were screams all over the tech sites.