Moderators: DavidCass, Bruce Bo
grim_x wrote: I'd guess that your old one was sludged up somehow and was slowing down the meter, and the new one performs in a normal fashion.
MGiuseffi wrote:I doubt I will ever be able to get back to that level with the swing meter moving at what seems to me to be "light speed". Makes me wonder if some other low scorers have "old" computers as well giving them this advantage. Mike
Maximus wrote:I bought a new computer (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.3 GHz with 2 Gig Ram) to replace one I used for over 6 years (1.6 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 Ram). If there's any advantage at all, I feel it's with my new machine because the swing meter seems to run a little smoother but the speed at which it moves is no different than it was on the old one.
Golfman wrote:Older machines are definitely a problem with lINKS slow- eratic swing speeds. About 25% of the time I lose 1 or more strokes a tournament because of it. I have an old Compaq 800 mhz machine and, far too often, it takes off and initiates SYSYEM svchost.exe routines or lIve Update routines in the middle of a swing. These routines take up 97-100% of CPU time, leaving no idle time for LINKS and the swing meter (or anything esle). These routines are initiated at startup and can come on again anytime later. They last about 3-5 minutes and then I can play again. This has been my problem for years now. Microsoft doesn't seen to want to fix it. I asked. They talk about a patch, but don't offer it. For us slow CPU guys, those routines should be turned off/delayed when you are using a mouse sensitive program.
Return to Links 2003 Technical Forum
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 85 guests