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Putting Dots Issue

• daveparr 1,175 Posts

  Mon, Feb 19 2018 9:16 AM

  Had a unplayable meter for a week  l did the normal things clear the cache ect without any success,  Eventualy l updated the Video/card and now the meter/game runs pretty good and im able to have a enjoyable game again.

• Yiannis1970 3,309 Posts

  Mon, Feb 19 2018 10:07 AM

  YankeeJim:

  Yiannis1970:

  When i play on my laptop, initially everything is fine. After an hour though, temp raises and i deal with the dot speed problem. Dots are hardly moving, all of a sudden speed up, stutter e.t.c. I shut down the laptop and try after a while...eveything's fine  till it raises the temps again.

  IDK if this is related to WoL's problem but I play on a laptop, too, and it does tend to run hot after a while. Raising the back of the laptop-like set it on the edge of a small book or something-increases the air flow underneath it and helps.

  At my shop I set it on a Belkin Coolpad I found at KMart for $20. It's powered off a USB port and really makes a difference in the temps. I haven't seen the problem with the dots yet.

   

  What i posted is with the use of external fan.

   

• siggipj76 2,989 Posts

  Mon, Feb 19 2018 10:38 AM

  Same thing happend to me, made it almost impossible to read greens.

  Dots would slow down a few times across a grid.

  This happend to me on the day I got a flash security update beginning of this month.

  been non stop changing browsers/flash to fix it , only today did I see an improvement.

  changed my flash update to never and went back to maxthon with flash v.24

  Now I can read the dots again.

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Mon, Feb 19 2018 11:03 AM

  Heat is an issue with desktops too when playing this game, I was having heat issues and put a small fan in front of it until I had time to install another fan on the case....some desktops also have an internal fan that blows directly on the CPU, if it goes out you can't see it.

  I agree with the cooling pad, but it isn't as hard as you might think to take a laptop apart and replace a $4 cooling fan and give the heatsink a good cleaning, which is by far the way to go...

  Tigerpaw is right, a hot cpu will do that and I didn't even think about it until Yiannis posted.