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Meter Speed Consistency

• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Thu, Jan 8 2015 12:26 PM

  andyson:

  If that's what you are saying.....Could it be the Browser or Flash is using CPU time to manage its cache?

  I might agree with you.  But my cpu load is consistent which is 0%.  The other aspect I treat the meter as a glorified progress bar.  Sorry WGT if you take offense, but it is just what it is.  The complexity of the progress bar is non-existent.  The variables used to control the speed of the bar is questionable. If other players do not have these kind of issues, then WGT needs to address this issue.

  This computer is no slouch.  The MB uses two CPU's (Xenon processors) both running at 3.33 Ghz.  The computer will outperform alot of the current computers on the market today.  Question, how many computers do you know have the following benchmark.  44.6 Giga flops per second.

  Now, I use a Firefox which can allow the user to setup different profiles based on surfing needs.  I have one profile specifically for WGT and nothing else.  So, I remove all the files in the profile and restarted the browser.  What this does is rebuild the profile and you have to reset the preferences after. 

   

  andyson:

  After re-reading your posts several times I now think that's not what's happening.  The meter speed isn't changing, but it's no longer smooth after playing 5 to 10 minutes.  There are stutters?

  The meter does not stutter, but it does speed up through impact and the speed is inconsistent as well.  I do not rush my shots, hence I have been criticized for playing to slow. 

  I have been around computers for a long time and do consider myself knowledgeable.

• Romax 1,876 Posts

  Thu, Jan 8 2015 12:46 PM

  This may sound a little paranoid, but I've always felt that the odds of the meter giving a hiccup or a zoom at the ding is directly proportional with the hole being played and the importance of a dinged hit. Any water hole seems to have that little skip or stall programmed in.

  There are several holes where I can almost be assured of a little zoooom at the ding. 13 Beth is an example. It seems the only time I don't get it is when I'm ready for it and click a tad early to compensate. LOL. I assume it's the same for all and I never let it bother me, unless I dunk one because of it. That to me is blatant theft, especially if the meter purposely programmed to act that way.

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Thu, Jan 8 2015 5:03 PM

  Infinito3010:

  Question, how many computers do you know have the following benchmark.  44.6 Giga flops per second.

  I know of one.  You prompted me to search for the data on my new laptop (xmas present to me as my old laptop died).  It has an Intel Core i7-4700MQ 2.4 up to 3.4GHz processor an 16G DDR3L RAM.

  This site said they tested it at 82.34 GFLOPS in Whetstone.

  Then I downloaded a program I found  on CNet called QwikMark 0.4 and it reported 69 GFLOPs.

  Turned it on, downloaded Waterfox and meter is smooth without touching a thing.  Win8.1 btw.

• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Thu, Jan 8 2015 5:46 PM

  andyson:

  Turned it on, downloaded Waterfox and meter is smooth without touching a thing.  Win8.1 btw.

  Excellent, and great xmas present also.

   

• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Thu, Jan 8 2015 6:40 PM

  andyson:

  Then I downloaded a program I found  on CNet called QwikMark 0.4 and it reported 69 GFLOPs.

  I ran that software and it reported my system at 59 Gflops with a memory bandwidth of 7 GB/Sec

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Thu, Jan 8 2015 6:51 PM

  We're in the same GFlopness ballpark then. LOL

  And my mem bandwith reported at 12GB/sec  disk transfer was 116mb/sec.

• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Thu, Jan 8 2015 7:08 PM

  andyson:

  We're in the same GFlopness ballpark then. LOL

  And my mem bandwith reported at 12GB/sec  disk transfer was 116mb/sec.

  Overall, I guess I can't complain (LOL), and my disk transfer as 128 mb/sec.  The main reason I got this computer is for its number crunching capabilities, and I benefited from overall system performance.