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Fix The Jerk

• Kiwilass 5 Posts

  Fri, Jan 27 2017 4:16 PM

  I don't know about anyone else but I'm finding it near impossible to play, the screen is so jerky and lagging that there is no chance at making a decent shot. It's out of control, restarting multiple times, hasn't helped. So until it improves, I can't play.

• Bubblesimba 179 Posts

  Fri, Jan 27 2017 6:17 PM

  Kiwilass:

  the screen is so jerky and lagging that there is no chance at making a decent shot.

  Go to msconfig, services and uncheck windows event log and windows event collector, apply and restart your computer

  That might help you out.

  Greetz Joz

• mikey1961 1,685 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2017 12:57 AM

  I think you might have to look at your system ie processor, flash player and the likes from what you are saying that the screen is jerky (or do you mean the meter) then it could also be a graphics issue have you tried clearing the cache and even the cache in your flash player as well and what progs do you have running in the background all these things can affect your game play

  I'm pretty sure once this thread gets seen by a few of the techy guys on here they will be able to steer you in the right direction but in the mean time maybe try a few of the things i have suggested 

  Mike

  P.S maybe have a look at this too it might help 

  http://www.wgt.com/forums/p/635/2552.aspx

   

• borntobesting 9,701 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2017 2:04 AM

  Contrary to what a lot of people think the meter runs exclusively on your computer. If your meter is that bad you have a problem with your computer. One of the simplest fixes is to go into settings and change flash quality to medium or low and hold the mouse at the top of the swing for 3 to 5 seconds. You will be surprised at how much smoother your meter will be.

  Check how much ram you have. 2 gig or less will give you trouble with your meter

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2017 2:28 AM

  borntobesting:

  If your meter is that bad you have a problem with your computer.

  +1!

  Add your LAN if applicable. Even outside LAN activity may occupy your PC and bother the meter.

  This comes down to CPU activity. When a shot window opens, there is some initial Flash activity which ceases. In bad cases, even the shot preparations like moving the aim marker and club selection act up the CPU. I have a CPU meter installed, and if CPU load exceeds 50%, I have a keen eye on the shot meter. If jumpy, I let it run through and repeat after a pause.

  Another easy procedure is to close all browser windows regularily. This will clear the "memory eating" issues with Flash.

• PhilEStein 1,269 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2017 4:29 AM

  Have you tried acupuncture?

  The other thing OP is to try alternative browsers. Maybe the simplest way out for you.

• dedBuNNy 1,919 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2017 11:29 AM

  borntobesting:

  Contrary to what a lot of people think the meter runs exclusively on your computer. If your meter is that bad you have a problem with your computer. 

  Check how much ram you have. 2 gig or less will give you trouble with your meter

  Wrong and not so wrong...

  The meter does not run on your computer, it is a Flash asset playing within the container window 'playing' within the browser on your computer. This game does not install any assets on your computer there is nothing is actually running as executing code as part of an installed game on your computer.

  What is running on your computer and what is taxing the resources be that CPU/GPU and networking will most definately affect the meter. The meter is a Flash asset which plays based on your intetaction with it, your shot results are based on several interaction feeds from wgt servers plus whatever AS code they wrote which determine what type of shot result you get based on where you 'stop on the meter,' thereby setting a trigger point.  

  If the game loaded the meter and the required assets on your machine you'd be able to play locally with no connection. You can't because it requires server data to be fed back to the meter for instance. The ability to feed the data back and forth without packet loss, jitter or lag will affect how that meter animation plays, what you see as the meter moves toward the ding, if you've got a bad connection, or your AV is scanning you'll more than likey have issues - changing the game or flipping browsers will likely not make much difference and if it does that's a local issue. Nothing WGT is doing is actively buggering up your browser, most of those issues are created by changes to the browser, how it's handling Flash for instance.

  As for the ram issue, again, wrongish... This game is not memory taxing, your comptuer might be starved, and that can cause caching issues, but the game doesn't require much ram in itself to play.

  I played for a long time on a stock Lenovo T61 with 1gb of ram, wifi.. never had any meter glitching, not the skipping type etc.... What I did have was a clean connection. I also played on a machine with 16GB of ram,  7th gen i7,  SLi'd video, SSD's.. Game was unplayable and that was cabled direct to a cisco switch from that same connection...

  The game doesn't care about your massively over-powered killer rig, in fact it laughs at it and gives gives it the finger... 

   

• petervcpt 1,013 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2017 2:49 PM

  Howzit everyone

  This may be relevant..or not.

  I use Windows 10.

  Yesterday I thought I would defragment my hard drive and when I got here:

  

  ...I realised that my laptop was defaulted to defragment every day (default setting)

  I've turned that off but that could be an issue, if running Windows 10

  Cheers

  Peter

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2017 3:14 PM

  I'll make it simple, there are at least 1000 threads about this, search and read them...it is a pain staking task but your solution is  there I absolutely guarantee you...or read ScottHopes profile page.....

  Unless you are running Win7 on a laptops wireless network with a 1.5ghz "Celeron" processor, 1gig of RAM, and running Norton or McAffee suites at same time your trying to play, then your solution is at the nearest computer store, "then" read the other 1000 threads or Scotts page!!

• lee22sharon 1,419 Posts

  Sat, Jan 28 2017 4:45 PM

  Kiwilass:

  I don't know about anyone else but I'm finding it near impossible to play, the screen is so jerky and lagging that there is no chance at making a decent shot. It's out of control, restarting multiple times, hasn't helped. So until it improves, I can't play.

  such great information posted in response to the original poster!  if i only knew enuff to be able to use the information it wudd be great.

   i'm very satisfied with my meter and how everything works for me,  very lucky!  i have had 3 towers, 2 mother board changes, and have always had a stable meter through out.  it can get just a little shimmy in its movement, and i clear caches, and flash player, then its gone.

   i have had issues with some odd accruing things in the past, and have always found an answer here in the forums, sometimes it takes some research, and some tongue biting, but always solved the problem.

  it might be to late, but i thank all of the geeks of wgt for helping the less informed in our searches for help.  my nickle.