I am looking for help from anyone with some knowledge about Flash or who has resolved a similar problem to mine. The problem starts when I join or host an AS game and all players leave the lobby but the game never loads the screen for the first tee. There's a moment when the screen is blank (blue) just before the first tee loads but I never get past this point.
The game does not time me out for several minutes (I have tried waiting). It's like it's waiting for some confirmation from my computer that it is ready before it loads the first tee but never gets that confirmation.
This problem is not reliably reproducible but happens fairly regularly. The situation is made worse by the fact that this starts a chain reaction with the other players in the game. I will close the game window and reload to get the game started and this time I will get the screen for the first tee. However one of the other players will get a blue screen in the same way that I did at first and then he can't load.
So he will close the game window and reload and this time I will get the blue screen before getting to the first tee. So I will close the game window and reload and now he or another player will get the blue screen.
What is reproducible is that I am always the first person to get the blue screen and once this happens another player (or players) and I will alternate blue screens until the game is over. The other strange thing is that this situation only happens when I play games with the four or five other players in our country club with which I play AS games daily. I play a lot of AS games with other people and have never had this happen in those games. I should add that this has only been a problem in the last 3 months or so.
I have found that the problem can be prevented if I delete the "Flash Player" directory in Users\<my_name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe and the same directory in Users\<my_name>\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia. (AKA clear the Flash Cache). However I should not have to do this before each game that I play.
I should add that this blue screen problem also occurs often when I play multi-player stroke games with these same club members.
I have tried Waterfox (a Firefox clone), Maxthon and Edge browsers and all show the same symptoms. I am using Waterfox 44.03 (most recent version) and Maxthon 4.4.8.200 (current version). Flash version 21,0,0,197 and Windows 10 My ISP is Verizon FIOS and the router is hard wired to my computer.
The only other applications I have running when I play wgt is Excel and a text editor program and Skype (which I use for talking to club members while playing).
I would VERY MUCH appreciate any help from the wgt community on this matter.