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Please Change the Putting Grid Back!

• WGTadmin2 1,152 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2009 5:29 PM

  Your router will may affect your swing meter, but I am not sure how it would manifest itself.  Basically everything between the WGT server your ISP and your computer will affect the performance.  If you think about it there are probably over 10 machines / hops between your machine and the server that affect the "transmission".

• geeDub 41 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2009 7:13 PM

  So....what I hear you saying is if we have the MOST POWERFUL PERSONAL COMPUTERS,  the FASTEST and most secure ISP,  and all those "10 machines / hops"   are of the super duper top notch bitchinest pieces ever created .....ALL LINKED TOGETHER properly to your WGT server......we should have a flawlessly operating swing meters.  Correct? 

  And man....I sure hope Adobe® , which now owns/operates Flash®  is going to make magic happen and actually allow us to play this wonderful game on our iPhones TOO!!!   ; )  :P  ....that would be (_*_) (_*_)  s.  

  ~gDub

• jeffdos924 1,085 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2009 8:54 PM

  WGTadmin2:

  Basically everything between the WGT server your ISP and your computer will affect the performance.  If you think about it there are probably over 10 machines / hops between your machine and the server that affect the "transmission".

   

  geeDub ..

     I apologize if it wasn't meant to, but, the tone of your last post was pretty "dickish" , in my opinion.... and it didn't need to be.

   I get just as frustrated with the swing meter as anyone else, but the quote above makes more sense to me than any other explanation I've seen since I've been here.  Absolutely no way it can be everyone's computer, which is how a lot of the responses read, but our particular machine is the only thing that WE can control, just as WGT can only control their servers. I hadn't ever thought about the links between the two before.... how many servers/ junctions in the network between them & me.

   That made me think of a couple things  ... a terrible cable signal i used to have, that turned out to be my fault for splitting the cable to too many TV's. It also reminded of this game we used to play in kindergarten ... you know, the Telephone Game - one kids whispers a message to the next, and he to the next, etc .Very rarely was the message the same at the end of the line as it was when it started. Any little glitch in the network between here and there would cause a problem ... one hole loads quick, the next takes 20 seconds ... one time the meter takes a dump .. and maybe not again for the rest of the game. Does that make me feel better about losing my 40-cent ball? No .. but at least I know that it's not just happening to me.

   

• tibbets 1,043 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2009 9:33 PM

  ...and of course nothing the admin has said explains why I can play hours of uninterrupted golf on another browser-based golf game without any meter stutter whatsoever, and then log on to WGT and have 3 meter hiccups in a 9 hole round.  I guess that's just....coincidence?

  Guys, please.  It's not the 10 hops in between the WGT servers and my machine, nor is it my machine running too many services or programs, nor the fact that I have the main page open.

  Let's put it this way:  Even if everything you state is 100% correct,  the 10 hops between your servers and our computers aren't going to change, nor are they going to magically get better or less erratic.   You'd better come up with a better solution.  The other browser-based golf game I referred to certainly has, so the solution is definitely out there and it's all on you guys to find it.

• rnegv 55 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2009 10:25 PM

  This reminds me of the early internet days. All that was available was dial up until recently. When one had problems with the internet my isp would blame the phone co. and vice versa or it was my computer....how convenient....now recently my ie8 wouldn't load the game no matter what so i had to use fire fox...then that browser wouldn't load either...how nice...I email and send bug reports (what a waste of time) then i read on the forums that wgt cleared some corrupt files on their end and presto my ie8 works again. wgt's customer service leaves a lot to be desired as far as i am concerned. And yes the other browser game plays flawless compared to this game!

• geeDub 41 Posts

  Sun, Dec 20 2009 10:51 PM

  tibbets:

   

  Guys, please.  It's not the 10 hops in between the WGT servers and my machine, nor is it my machine running too many services or programs, nor the fact that I have the main page open.

   

  Careful Master Tibbets.....or you'll be accused of being "dickish" as well ...lmao.  However,  you're "swinging prowess" as head money dog is much more endowed than most so I suppose you qualify as THE MAN who can get away with it better.   At any rate,  I am pleased as the "accuser" has stated that none of us....including big sticks like yourself.... don't escape the hiccupping demon that has befallen onto this site.   Thanks for putting your bits into the pot with us all here.  ;)

   

   

• lkennedy 194 Posts

  Mon, Dec 21 2009 8:52 AM

  After reading all of this insightful input, I tossed my cookies, got rid of browser boogers, added chrome, and I think I accidentally signed up for a pilates class. Except for the hiccups, everything was fine. Now, my putting grid goes off on backswing no matter the setting. I don't have the same prowess as Bollox. I need the help of the grid. Also had to turn off tutorials repeatedy (trying to tell me something?). Am wondering if this forum is cursed. Guess I'll play the CTTH till it irons out.

• Skipppppy 16 Posts

  Mon, Dec 21 2009 11:22 AM

  I guess it's only been three days, but it seems like three YEARS.  I have off work from last Thursday [December 17, forever known as the day the putting grid went bye-bye] until Jan 5th.  I planned on playing hundreds of rounds of golf, losing lots of balls and buying lots more.  But without the putting grid I can't even play.  PLEASE fix it or I will be stuck playing Halo3 and Left4Dead2 all break.  Thanks in advance.

  Skip

• nivlac 2,188 Posts

  Mon, Dec 21 2009 11:25 AM

  Hey Skip,

  As a temporary workaround, you might try playing with a different browser (Firefox, Chrome) while we wait for a fix.

  *edit* Ah nevermind.  Once I switched it to GRID ON it still dissapears on the backswing.  For an alternative way to learn how to measure your distances (as opposed to using the grid boxes) check out the Putting Tutorial.  If you can learn that system you won't need the grid boxes anymore and as a result, should see increased performance.

• WGTadmin2 1,152 Posts

  Mon, Dec 21 2009 6:45 PM

  The putting grid option fix will be applied in the near future, please stay tuned.