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• JLeary1 416 Posts

  Sat, Aug 29 2015 12:39 PM

  mkg335:

  With users from all over the world using all kinds of browsers and comps experiencing similar problems, this has to be on wgt's end, something they've screwed up with flash deployment/interface I guess.

  But like ct said, they've got plenty of time to implement unwanted and useless features like idiotic in-game comments and golfball tee markers.

  Yes, totally agree mkg335..

  The fact that the memory is reclaimed when you (or I) close and restart our browsers indicates that the memory leak is not a browser issue, but in this case a wgt game issue. If it were a browser problem, then the leaked memory would only be regained after a computer reboot.

  My understanding of programming is that this is just a programming fault. In Java programming we were spoiled with "garbage collection", so memory leaks were not such an issue. In C++ programming not so, and you learned pretty quick to have routines to properly "clean up after yourself", to put it in layman's terms.

  The problem as I see it is that the memory leaks not only cause the game to stutter like a strobe light, but I have also witnessed a lot more crashes (including the "!" crash) as the memory usage goes up.

   

• 559 Posts

  Sat, Aug 29 2015 12:49 PM

  JLeary1:

  Yes I second that - I've noticed the past few months or less, the wgt game client (I'm using maxthon) starts at around 180MB usage and after 9 holes it can be as high as 1-1.2GB of RAM used.

  Yes about the same for me.  Start between150-200MB and after 9 holes as high as 1-1.4GB

  JLeary1:

  I am now in the habit of closing my browser down after every game (or even 9 holes if it isn't a skins/MPC etc) as my meter does get jerky/stuttery after the RAM usage hits about 7-800MB, and the game will also crash more likely then as well..

  Refreshing my IE browser after each game is a must.  I also keep an eye on my task manager because around 7-800MB my meter can get very sketchy.  I find I have to refresh during a round quite often :/  I also keep an eye on my memory while looking for a game.  If I have to I will have the host re invite me so I can refresh my browser.

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Aug 29 2015 12:53 PM

  Yeah, a little bit of everything is haywire, you know, SOP after every downtime...mine is always the hoppin' meter...yep, tried google, google chrome, Yahoo, Maxathon...can't find a browser that works for more than 2 or 3 shots, but it's all me, right ? Oh well. But, I say but, what concerns me most of all is that most of the new, snazzy ads, even that awesome 60 sec.  jobby (that they have inserted at the front 9 break before starting the back 9), these ads are not getting their full play, but get interupted, or worse...FROZEN. I don't care about my game, but by golly, I want to watch those facinating ads...pay attention WGT.  ~ SP ~

• JLeary1 416 Posts

  Sat, Aug 29 2015 12:54 PM

  MrQueez:

  Refreshing my IE browser after each game is a must.  I also keep an eye on my task manager because around 7-800MB my meter can get very sketchy.  I find I have to refresh during a round quite often :/  I also keep an eye on my memory while looking for a game.  If I have to I will have the host re invite me so I can refresh my browser.

  Yes it's mad, isn't it Tom? :)

  I do the same. I'm less focussed on a game, and more focussed on "right click the taskbar".. "check memory usage".. then --- "damn, memory usage is too high, can I afford to DC in this skins game?"

• JasonBlazer 2,246 Posts

  Sat, Aug 29 2015 3:27 PM

  That's the problem, I love to get a skins game up, but when WGT disco's folks at random, what's the point?

• thestevster 546 Posts

  Sat, Aug 29 2015 3:33 PM

  just played st andys front was -4 at the 8th hole the other player disconnects waited a minute nothing happened i disconnect tried to get back in brought me back to the main page..

  very frustrating...

  steve 

   

• navigater 1,319 Posts

  Sat, Aug 29 2015 4:21 PM

  MrQueez:

  JLeary1:

  Yes I second that - I've noticed the past few months or less, the wgt game client (I'm using maxthon) starts at around 180MB usage and after 9 holes it can be as high as 1-1.2GB of RAM used.

  Yes about the same for me.  Start between150-200MB and after 9 holes as high as 1-1.4GB

  JLeary1:

  I am now in the habit of closing my browser down after every game (or even 9 holes if it isn't a skins/MPC etc) as my meter does get jerky/stuttery after the RAM usage hits about 7-800MB, and the game will also crash more likely then as well..

  Refreshing my IE browser after each game is a must.  I also keep an eye on my task manager because around 7-800MB my meter can get very sketchy.  I find I have to refresh during a round quite often :/  I also keep an eye on my memory while looking for a game.  If I have to I will have the host re invite me so I can refresh my browser.

   

  anything less then this..You will have troubles.

   

   

  navi USMC

• thestevster 546 Posts

  Sat, Aug 29 2015 4:46 PM

  i use windows 7 professional

  my base score is 7.7 i use waterfox64 browser which is really good at the moment..

  i use waterfox clear recent history and 1-click cleaner...

  the problems come from other players disconnecting at the moment..

  and my broadband is over100mbs

   

  steve

• micheldess 819 Posts

  Sat, Aug 29 2015 4:51 PM

  I think in my  20 last alternate or matchplay game, we finish only 5 of those.

  But we got new sounds, we can't have it all (lol)

• JasonBlazer 2,246 Posts

  Sat, Aug 29 2015 6:21 PM

  Point is, you should'nt have to own a Cray Supercomputer or an IBM Big Blue to play the game....cut the useless crap out and let us play the basic game, we don't need add-ons...