Post by Brighttail on May 17, 2015 19:43:42 GMT -5
So HB finally answered a question I had about playing with another player. If the ball goes in on my opponents screen, it will often lip out on my screen, his score will be reflected accurately and then the ball will disappear. Sometimes the ball will go in on my screen, but then he is shooting again, after missing on his screen.
The answer from HB is that this happens apparently only on PC.
"It's an unfortunate side effect of the way we have chosen to share courses and PC gaming.
The courses that are shared are just a small set of instructions that get fed into the Greg Norman course designer. Which then makes the course.
Unfortunately on PC''s, unlike console, different graphics cards round to slightly different decimal places and cause slight differences in undulations on greens between two peoples machines.
When we show you your friends shot, we know the ball position and apply the same power, accuracy and aim to the ball. If the undulations are slightly different some times you'll see a shot lip out where your friend will see it drop. "
So basically PCs provide so much detail on each of these courses each of the undulations are calculated down to multiple decimal point places. Since each PC have different powered graphics cards and since one card may be more powerful than another, the calculations that the course uses can be different due to the limited ability of a lesser graphics card. So when you are talking about a putt that barely lips in or goes in the hole, that can be a calculation down to the one thousandth decimal point. On one PC it would show the ball going in since it rounds to lets say the hundredth while on a more powerful one it rounds to the ten-thousandth which means the ball stays out.
What I'm interested in is if all this is true, then a more powerful graphics cards has many more possibilities. Does this mean that a more powerful graphics card make the game harder. A swing made on a console has only so many computations it can generate so a shot that is slightly off might only fly a little off line on a console but on a PC would it fly more offline? Going to ask some more questions i suppose.
The answer from HB is that this happens apparently only on PC.
"It's an unfortunate side effect of the way we have chosen to share courses and PC gaming.
The courses that are shared are just a small set of instructions that get fed into the Greg Norman course designer. Which then makes the course.
Unfortunately on PC''s, unlike console, different graphics cards round to slightly different decimal places and cause slight differences in undulations on greens between two peoples machines.
When we show you your friends shot, we know the ball position and apply the same power, accuracy and aim to the ball. If the undulations are slightly different some times you'll see a shot lip out where your friend will see it drop. "
So basically PCs provide so much detail on each of these courses each of the undulations are calculated down to multiple decimal point places. Since each PC have different powered graphics cards and since one card may be more powerful than another, the calculations that the course uses can be different due to the limited ability of a lesser graphics card. So when you are talking about a putt that barely lips in or goes in the hole, that can be a calculation down to the one thousandth decimal point. On one PC it would show the ball going in since it rounds to lets say the hundredth while on a more powerful one it rounds to the ten-thousandth which means the ball stays out.
What I'm interested in is if all this is true, then a more powerful graphics cards has many more possibilities. Does this mean that a more powerful graphics card make the game harder. A swing made on a console has only so many computations it can generate so a shot that is slightly off might only fly a little off line on a console but on a PC would it fly more offline? Going to ask some more questions i suppose.