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*** Release notes 7/31/15 ***

• hpurey 11,505 Posts

  Mon, Aug 3 2015 3:06 PM

  mnshiner:

  WGT Way of doing Averages

  All I have to say today.

  LMBO!   

• SHRUDE 5,835 Posts

  Mon, Aug 3 2015 7:58 PM

  11BC2:

  Maxthon has always been one of the worst browsers possible for me.

  & Yet, everyone in our club that has switched over to it has loved it and wouldnt use anything else.

  Maxthon has a proxy set up as default on install. Switch it off. Works a treat.

  11BC2:

  Commodo, Cloud, Safari, and a few others.  They are all horrible. 

  and yet, many other users on the site swear by Commodo.

  11BC2:

  And I have a 1 year old gaming machine with a very strong processor and 16 MB Ram too

  Probably needs formatting then or some good maintenance, as some of the issues you have described arent consistent with other users are they.

   

  Shrude...  .. .

   

• 11BC2 555 Posts

  Mon, Aug 3 2015 9:37 PM

  @ Shrude

  Thanks for trying to help but as I've already mentioned, Maxthon is horrible for me.  And of course I'm aware of the proxy setting, as well as disabling/deleting every single (even smooth scrolling) add-on except adblock.  So to re-iterate, Maxthon is horrible for me.

  Before the 7/31 Maintenance my meter was absolutely PERFECT (quite literally).  Since then, it doesn't matter what I try or do.  Something on WGT's end is F'd up.  It's certainly not mine (I don't need formating or maitenance lol).

  I can play BF4 on Ultra Settings (although I play it on the very basic for better latency/reaction) and easily average over 100 FPS.  Besides, there's literally 100s of post/threads about virtually everyone on WGT having some crazy and ridiculous BS happening to them in their game.  It doesn't get any more obvious than WGT needs to fix their new release.

• fredsf 1,460 Posts

  Mon, Aug 3 2015 10:07 PM

  mnshiner:

  WGT Way of doing Averages

  All I have to say today.

  Good one Shiner! I knew the fun was back!!!! At least, we got this!

• SHRUDE 5,835 Posts

  Mon, Aug 3 2015 10:21 PM

  11BC2:

  @ Shrude

  I have no problems with my meter and until this last BS update as well, my meter on Maxthon has been smooth as a babies bottom.

  I have a 4 year old i7 with just 8GB of ram running Win7 Ultimate 64.

  and I will reiterate, that If i got hold of your system I bet I could find maintenance requirements that will probably smooth your meter across the board in all browsers (apart from this current wgt update mess)

  11BC2:

  I can play BF4 on Ultra Settings

  You cant compare BF4 with WGT - both built on entirely different platforms with WGT using outdated Flash technology.
  
  

  11BC2:

  Besides, there's literally 100s of post/threads about virtually everyone on WGT having some crazy and ridiculous BS happening to them in their game.

  I concur, however these are not always meter issues. and we all experience the same problems as WGT deal them out to us, some of our systems can cope better than others.

  I will always remember a WGT user bleating and babbling on how WGT is so stuffed up and she had bought a BRAND NEW laptop so how could it possibly on earth be a problem with her system.

  With further probing, we discovered her brand new laptop was a Celeron machine using shared graphics on a total of 2gb ram and running with all the usual manufacturers bloatware on it.
  Once we identified this , she was most upset as she bought this new laptop JUST to play WGT with, we didnt hear from her again.
  
  WGT demands a decent system with a very clean registry and minimal systray use.
  Once this is achieved you will find WGT meter runs smoothly & then you will find how good Maxthon or  Comodo is with other features of the game and not just the swing meter.
  (I prefer Maxthon because of the way it brilliantly renders the graphics in its own full screen popout )  

  Apart from all that , I do agree, the update we had 2 or 3 months ago was when the Flash issues began, then we had the revolving log in panel and now this latest update has finally broken Flash even further.

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Mon, Aug 3 2015 10:45 PM

  After updating flash twice and clearing the cache several times, and all the other BS we do, my browser still showed I had the old version of flash...so I removed flash and reinstalled it....my smooth meter is back, at least it is for the time being!

• 11BC2 555 Posts

  Tue, Aug 4 2015 1:06 AM

  fatdan:

  Weellll, I am very computer savvy You can tell by the choppy graphics on the green they did something that affects how he data is transferred...just saying.

  X2.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that WGT F'd the pooch and that it has absolutetly nothing to do with our side (otherwise their wouldn't be 1,000,000 Angry User Post). Take a look at your Task Manager and Memory (PWS) and you'll see an alarming spike in resources being used by flash since the 7/31 update. 

  Something very wrong with that picture (why such huge memory leaks?).  So sure hope WGT is doing everything in their power to fix ALL theses problems and not just some quick fix for camera/angles/zoom, etc.  While those are all very annoying you could still manage to play with them but there's no way in hell the game is even playable with a broken meter.

  fatdan:

  After updating flash twice and clearing the cache several times, and all the other BS we do, my browser still showed I had the old version of flash...so I removed flash and reinstalled it....my smooth meter is back, at least it is for the time being!

  That's the very first thing I tried and a big No-Go.  Glad it worked for you.  Hopefully it keeps on working ^

• AceHoler26 341 Posts

  Tue, Aug 4 2015 3:47 AM

  One of the things I have found since WGT's last release is this...

  When I play a couple of game in a row, about halfway through the 2nd game the ball starts blinking.  And then usually a bit after that the graphics get choppy.  I usually refresh/reload the page when the graphics get choppy and that seems to rectify the issue.

  But having to do this is quite annoying to say the least.

• JLeary1 416 Posts

  Tue, Aug 4 2015 4:35 AM

  SHRUDE:

  WGT demands a decent system with a very clean registry

  Sorry to argue with a fellow Aussie, Shrude, but .... cleaning the registry is not needed for system optimisation, despite the myriad of websites saying the opposite. There is a minimal or even negligible system improvement possible with "cleaning" a heavily fragmented registry with outdated entries and the like, but it is not like a filesystem, and once a program is loaded in memory there is nothing more to be gained with any so-called registry improvements.

  I agree that you want a decent computer and also optimise it as much as possible, but after that then it is out of our hands..

  There are lots of optimisations possible that can improve wgt game experience and help achieve a smooth meter, and this is a list of some of what I do:

  *disable all C-states in the bios

  *running services.msc and disabling or setting to manual all unneccesary services

  *disabling most visual enhancements on the desktop

  *disabling most start-up entries

  *regular defragging (or TRIM if you have an SSD)

  *set automatic updates to "Notify to download/install"

  *turn off all live tiles (Windows 8 / 10)

  *disable system restore, disable remote assistance

  But the reality is that if you have done all that, have a good computer, the 3 biggest variables that are responsible for meter smoothness, in no hard order, are:

  1. Wgt

  2. Browser and browser config

  3. Flash and flash version

  4. Internet speed - network at your end or wgt's network load

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Tue, Aug 4 2015 4:51 AM

  AceHoler26:

  When I play a couple of game in a row, about halfway through the 2nd game the ball starts blinking.  And then usually a bit after that the graphics get choppy

  This is new and I see it, too. Since the last update, playing several games without rebooting the game is causing something to happen to Flash because all the graphics start degrading. The fix is to reboot the game but it never used to be this way. I'm hoping whatever nonsense they did with the cameras will fix this when they fix the cameras.