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• burchell123 362 Posts

  Thu, Nov 14 2013 3:15 PM

  ok i see where your coming from,now some help as to how you do all this with windows open would be appreciated,it's no use saying your games fine unless you can help,i don't come on here saying im ok i have a 12" c o c k pity about all yours.is it wgt f ing us up or you have a super computer or what dude

  ROCKY

• filmslayer 2,341 Posts

  Thu, Nov 14 2013 3:37 PM

  Rocky , no super computer but it is new (6mo) i5 processor and 4gig . but when i started two years ago i had 7 year old laptop that didn't even make 1/2 of the requirements and still played .... some things that i've sussed are , turning off all auto updates , this will really kill a game , set your security to game mode (if it has it) , make sure there isn't anyone else on your connection , if someone  else in the house is streaming something  (same connection) game play can really suffer  . believe it or not clearing and cleaning do help , i have 1 auto and do 1 manually every week and i told ya about holding power for a 3 count . your next game when ya putt , pull power and count how long it takes for the hitting zone to start to shrink and then use that count every shot . works 4 every time ...

   

  *edit - in game settings i also make sure reflections are turned off and flash quality set to medium ...

• skccvb 799 Posts

  Thu, Nov 14 2013 4:18 PM

  Macs don't have meter issues using Safari _PC's are a crapshoot. Also Chromebooks using Chrome are very smooth. PC users- it is all about the flash version. If you find a flash version that is smooth, disable your updates...

• dflop 1,877 Posts

  Thu, Nov 14 2013 5:02 PM

  I only have a simple laptop computer , i had a terrible meter and it was suggested to me that keeping my friends list to no more than 60 or so and installing Maxthon 3 then i updated to Maxthon Cloud .

  The result is now a silky smooth meter with only the occasional meter spike.  Maybe once in every 10 rounds.

  dflop !

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Thu, Nov 14 2013 5:07 PM

  filmslayer:

  really , i stream padora , leave forum open with 3 other windows  and have over 170 friends in my list yet dont suffer from meter issues ... the only  thing i do and its not even a tweak is hold power for a 3 count . the only time i ever see a stutter is if i play to fast . not sure who first posted that tip but believe YankeeJim re-posted it before ...

  Pandora (streaming audio) uses minimal CPU resources.  Holding power for 3 seconds is very effective and a big meter saver.  I do it too.   Probably why you get by with 170 friends.

  filmslayer:

  some things that i've sussed are ,turning off all auto updates , this will really kill a game , set your security to game mode (if it has it) , make sure there isn't anyone else on your connection , if someone  else in the house is streaming something  (same connection) game play can really suffer  .

  You do any of these on your new computer too?  Would make sense if you did.

  filmslayer:

  .. but i guess its just easier to blame WGT...

  Thanks for the cheap shot.  You know how much investigation I've done on the meter, I put the blame where it belongs.

• SamanthaWho 3,403 Posts

  Thu, Nov 14 2013 5:17 PM

  Can someone explain "holding power for 3 seconds" ?  Thank you

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Thu, Nov 14 2013 5:31 PM

  SamanthaWho:

  Can someone explain "holding power for 3 seconds" ?  Thank you

  When you click and drag the meter back to set the power of your shot, hold it at the top for a count of 3 or 4 then release it.  It allows our computer to "settle down" before beginning the meter's run to the ding line.

   

• filmslayer 2,341 Posts

  Thu, Nov 14 2013 5:42 PM

  andyson:

  Thanks for the cheap shot.

  sir , i apologize for that being posted in something i quoted you in ... was not ment to be directed specifically at you tho i can see how that could be interpreted . again sorry

   

  and yes , all i learned on the old machine i carried over to the new one . it is W8 and i play on Chrome with a old non-pepper flash version (11,7,700,202 ) and can honestly say i have no issues other than a drunken index finger ... : )