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meter problems!!!!!!

• Yappy22 733 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2010 12:15 PM

  I bought new clubs today and tried them out on Kia-back 9. I have never had many meter problems but today it was dancing up a storm + stopping and stalling. On one putt the meter stalled I swung it made the ball strike sound charged me a stroke and the ball didn't move a millimeter. I'm going to loose interest fast if this keeps up.

• borntobesting 9,709 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2010 1:13 PM

  Ok , for proof that the meter is rendered locally. I just got high speed cable internet installed yesterday afternoon. The cable modem is sitting on top of my PC making it easy to see. It has 5 lights on front Those lights are pc cable data send data receive and power. During the entire swing and meter rendering neither data light is on. meaning no data is being sent or received. As soon as I click the make the shot both data lights light up for an instant. The send light  lighting up a fraction of a second before the receive light  lights up. Proving at least to me that the meter is rendered locally from my flash cache or browser cache or maybe a combination of  both. But in no way does WGT play  a part in the actual swing meter  until after the shot has been played. Then WGT sends the data for the result of the shot. If there are any sever issues it is the sending of the shot results data that would be slowed down or stuttery. 

• Tightrope 1,072 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2010 2:52 PM

  Of course the meter is rendered locally, the question is: Is there other activities that could interfere while you are making a shot? Activities that is unrelated to the swing but triggered by an event such as, for instance, a chat message or establishing a new connection to download a part of the next course or another players new position. Flash is not that good in keeping threads separate and run completely individual, partly because of the nature of the browser themselves and the security rules that a computer forces a online application like WGT to obey.

  I am not saying there is any easy solutions, I am just saying that the likelihood that the game is already optimized and perfected absolutely to the limits of it's environments are close to zero. It never is. If it was, it will not have a "beta" sign on it and it would never need to be updated. So far there is no computer program that good.

   

• PRIESTESS 10,721 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2010 3:04 PM

  Ive said before in these forums,Chat,,Pms  Friend list activity and stroke play or ready go results coming through to your profile page all cause meter interferance,Thats a FACT, i seen this for 12 months ,But people who are much clever than me say its not possible,,How many times did Tibbets clear his friend list?There is your proof that just 1 of my facts exsist,But whether wgt are capable of resolving this is another issue,Perhaps they know that my opions are true but cannot resolve them,If that is the case then it would be nice if we were told this and then we can just get on with it,without trying to put ideas forward that are rebounding off a brick wall,:)

• Tightrope 1,072 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2010 3:16 PM

  PRIESTESS:

  Ive said before in these forums,Chat,,Pms  Friend list activity and stroke play or ready go results coming through to your profile page all cause meter interferance,Thats a FACT, i seen this for 12 months ,But people who are much clever than me say its not possible,

  It is certainly possible. Unless the game ignores them they will lead to activity and that activity will "steal" CPU power from other activities. That is not only a possibility, it is a certainty.

   

• TheAceFactor 2,147 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2010 3:27 PM

  PRIESTESS:

  Chat,,Pms  Friend list activity and stroke play or ready go results coming through to your profile page all cause meter interferance,Thats a FACT

  Yes , fact ...no doubt. No question.

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• YancyCan 3,027 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2010 4:00 PM

  TheAceFactor:

  PRIESTESS:

  Chat,,Pms  Friend list activity and stroke play or ready go results coming through to your profile page all cause meter interferance,Thats a FACT

  Yes , fact ...no doubt. No question.

                                                                                                                  Ace

  Now I am just a common man - but what I does is when the game window pop-up loads up, I then close my original browser.

  I thinks this helps with the friends coming off and on and other wgt page activity that use up yer resources and whatnots.

  Sincerely, Yancy

  Yancy's WGT YouTube Tootorial & Golfin Tips Vidyas Channel:

  http://www.youtube.com/user/yancycan

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2010 4:17 PM

  Tightrope:

  Activities that is unrelated to the swing but triggered by an event such as, for instance, a chat message or establishing a new connection to download a part of the next course or another players new position.

  The things making for meter stutter are the flash animations going on within the game-client. The clubs name changes, and the ball name changes when we use the spin option. If a person tries to swing while these animations are in motion, their going to get a meter stutter every-time. Flash needs to to settle-down, and make ready for the next command. A slower rate of play would reduce meter problems considerably for a lot of members.

  There are many, many reasons that will cause Adobe flash to skip, to say it's the servers isn't one of them. The Adobe flash forums are a good place to read about the many bugs within the flash platform.

  There are free downloads to speed-up information packets sent to and from the servers like Leatrix Latency fix. Members can also choose to download a free Internet accelerator to speed-up their Internet connection. These things work and will make for a better playing experience if members are having connection issues. Google search them.

• TheAceFactor 2,147 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2010 4:34 PM

  YancyCan:

  Now I am just a common man - but what I does is when the game window pop-up loads up, I then close my original browser.

  I thinks this helps with the friends coming off and on and other wgt page activity that use up yer resources and whatnots.

  Hi Yancy , thanks for the comment , but me and that there other girl, we already know about that there thang you's a talkin' bout...I guess you could say me and hers been around fer a while. Anyway , I still sometimes like to take a gander at my stats or like, sometimes fellers will right purdy thangs on my wall and try to court me and stuff.  But even if'n  I turn that there browser you's a talkin' bout off,  them chats and game invites and stuff still bothers me sometimes. But you just never know ; they might come up with somethin' or another dreckly.

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• eurantia 318 Posts

  Tue, Dec 28 2010 4:52 PM

  borntobesting:

  Ok , for proof that the meter is rendered locally. I just got high speed cable internet installed yesterday afternoon. The cable modem is sitting on top of my PC making it easy to see. It has 5 lights on front Those lights are pc cable data send data receive and power. During the entire swing and meter rendering neither data light is on. meaning no data is being sent or received. As soon as I click the make the shot both data lights light up for an instant. The send light  lighting up a fraction of a second before the receive light  lights up. Proving at least to me that the meter is rendered locally from my flash cache or browser cache or maybe a combination of  both. But in no way does WGT play  a part in the actual swing meter  until after the shot has been played. Then WGT sends the data for the result of the shot. If there are any sever issues it is the sending of the shot results data that would be slowed down or stuttery. 

  speed and connective issues are separate enitities  you know that