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porky pig meter & other issues

• WGTpizza 1,656 Posts

  Tue, Nov 6 2012 6:17 PM

  hyena64:

  Remember, Pizza'a human just like all of us.

  The jury is still out on this one.

  Thanks hyena64, sometimes it's really easy to think of me as some faceless company to get mad at whenever you miss a putt.

  I'm just a guy who receives and gives information without bias. I love WGT, but I'm not going to lie or be deciteful about information I receive from them. I love our community but I'm not going to lie to or deceive my bosses.

  When they sit me down and say "Hey Pizza, how is the community?" They get an earful. It's not sugar-coated by any means.

  When the community asks me: "Hey Pizza, what's up with X feature?" I tell them exactly what I can tell them, nothing more or less.

  Sure, I'm friendly. Sure, I have a high opinion of WGT - this doesn't mean I have any other goal other than to efficiently disseminate information from WGT > community and back the other way.

  Now, back to the porky pig situation. There are players, including myself, who are capable of experiencing a near-flawless meter. We want all of you to experience the same, but it is not a simple endeavor - we need your full cooperation and an open mind. To share in Hyena64's sentiment, I commend all of you for attempting to compile data to help others configure their system properly. It is a sign of a healthy community, and I am proud to be a part of it :)

   

  Stay classy,

  -WGTpizza

• 2DAMFLASHY 1,141 Posts

  Tue, Nov 6 2012 8:05 PM

  processor    .. intel pentium R duel CPU E2 180 @ 2.00 GHz  2.00 GHz

  Memory       .. (Ram) 3062 mb

  system      ..  32 bit   operating system 

  i have an integrated graphic's card .... windows vista..  2008 HP

  have had a new hard drive upgrade ..couple monthes ago...  i get an occasional vizit from PORKY .. play in comodo dragon .. with yahoo msnger  going  and WGT forums open.. but i'd say ..smooth meter 99% of the time 

  little story... i had a horse i had trained from a colt and had been winning on for over ten 10 years ... well at this one rodeo i let a friends son rope off him.. an he won the event ... of which the horse owner usually gets 25%...(standard mount money) ... anyway when he came over to the trailer with his DAD....he said he wanted to know if i would sell him.... SO i thought a second an threw out a number ,,, i figured that would be high enough to scare em away... 

  but ..his DAD... never blink'd ...an said i'l be right back... 

  went home without my horse that night... but with one BIG DAM GRIN... :)   

  so anywho.. i wanted to buy a nice computer since everybody had one but didn't know crap about em..Well after going to several places i wound up at ...umm.. WALLY WORLD 

  Decided i would just hang out and watch some the younger gamer's .. and ask a few what they used.. or what they were checkin out..

  Sure enuf .. met a cool young dude.. knew more computer lingo than i could comprehend,, but pointed me towards just what he thought would do for me .. 

  i appreciate him to this day... .. and as for the horse... he carry'd that kid to qualify for the world high school finals the next two year's ...now his lil brother is learning on him... and has got it made in the shade.. 

  really enjoy learning stuff from threads like these... from the NON condescending ,respectful ones that is :) 

  peace

  

  SLIDER ... in action   .. an 1 happy kid

• 2DAMFLASHY 1,141 Posts

  Tue, Nov 6 2012 11:48 PM

  uda man Hyena ..:)

  thx .. ROCK ON !   dude

• bubbadork 984 Posts

  Wed, Nov 7 2012 1:20 PM

  Looks to me like that horse is up for giving the mare another gig of ram.

• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Wed, Nov 7 2012 6:58 PM

  Just doing some reading.  Your internet access does not affect the swing meter.  The control (meter) is locally rendered on your computer.  Conduct the following experiment.

  You are on the tee, disconnect from the internet, (turn modem off), take a couple of practice swings, as you will see there is no interference from the internet.  Hit your shot, and you will get an error as the results are being sent back to the server.  Turn on your modem, wait till the modem acquires the internet.  The results of your swing are sent to the WGT server, and the results of the shot are sent to your computer to be viewed on your monitor. 

  Just imagine the bandwidth required to render the control on the server and not on your computer, wow, it would be enormous.   You would essentially need a internet speed of Gbytes/sec as a minimum.

   

• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Thu, Nov 8 2012 3:37 AM

  What I mean by practice swing don't use your mouse, and let the meter go through.

  I just redid the experiment myself.  The meter swings through, but when it reaches the bottom, it must do a recheck on your internet connection.  Thus, they modified how the game operates.

   

• bubbadork 984 Posts

  Thu, Nov 8 2012 7:32 AM

  After your swing they have to know what happened, even if it's a whiff, so they need the communication transaction.

  For browser based games, the more work you can put on the browser, the less load you have on the server.  On the other hand, you can't put score keeping or shot making type stuff on the browser without courting easy cheating. It's in the TOS that you can't tap into the communication stream and alter the information being sent, but some may try.

  A few years ago a company that makes Facebook games had problems with people tapping in and inflating their earned credits. I don't know what WGT does, but if it were me I'd scramble, obfuscate, and encode that information as much as I possibly could.