ApexPC:It's quite possible the problem is at your end.
Or maybe not.
Let's compare our PCs to the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) aboard Apollo 11 which provided real-time guidance and control to get the astronauts to the lunar surface and home again. A very difficult task as described by astronaut David Scott
who said:
"If you have a basketball and a baseball 14 feet apart,
where the baseball represents the moon and the basketball represents the
Earth, and you take a piece of paper sideways, the thinness of the
paper would be the corridor you have to hit when you come back."
I conservatively estimate the complexity of that task to be 1,000 times more than drawing a simple "progress bar" animation on our PC screen.
Our PCs are 3000 times faster than the AGC - 3Ghz vs 1Mhz clock speeds
Our PCs have 1 million times more RAM than the AGC - 4Gb vs 4kb
If the guidance and control program had stuttered aboard Apollo 11 they could have missed the paper thin insertion into the corridor to return to earth.
Why do people have to jump through all the hoops, shut this off, shut that off, close this, close that, watch CPU activity, clean your disk, etc. etc. etc., to get a smooth meter on a PC with 3000 times the power of the AGC and much simpler task to perform?
Its WGT's program. It can't draw a simple progress bar animation smoothly on our powerful PCs unless it has pretty much all our PC's processing power available to do it. And that's 3000 times the processing power needed to put a man on the moon. And they prefer us to have 2Gb of RAM as well. That's 500,000 times the RAM on Apollo 11.
The meter is not rocket science.