Perfect Golf (beta) for Skytrak

[Menace]

Perfect Golf might look like a great game but has way too many bugs, even for an early access game still under development. It has a very long way to go before it can be mentioned in the same sentence as TGC, E6, ProTee and Red Chain. There is no AI, no stats, no tournament play and online play servers crash frequently. It currently has 10 courses and no stable (commercially) released version.

Price is unknown, but keep in mind you will be buying a beta product.

[dsailer]

PG should work with Mac, but I would imagine there needs to be a Skytrak component for the sim integration. That shouldn't be that difficult for Skytrak to do given that the platform is similar to iOS. But there's a lot going on - may not be there day 1.

Either way, I thought I read elsewhere that you could run PG on a Mac with bootcamp. And the Skytrak/sim integration on Windows has already been done with TGC about to be released.

[ryanoneill1]

Not the best video. I only have so much room on my iPhone and the ball dropping in the hole cut out. Or did I miss the putt, we will never know. Below is me playing the 13th hole at Medinah with Perfect Golf and Skytrak

https://youtu.be/H0-f37IxRK4

[Shardak]

Not the best video. I only have so much room on my iPhone and the ball dropping in the hole cut out. Or did I miss the putt, we will never know. Below is me playing the 13th hole at Medinah with Perfect Golf and Skytrak

https://youtu.be/H0-f37IxRK4

Putting looks way off. It looks like you hit the first putt pretty lightly compared to how fast it went darting across the green in the game.

Hard to tell for sure with how dark it was...but it was a 20ft putt. Looked to me like you left it short when you struck it. Then PG had it going 13 feet past the hole.

[ryanoneill1]

I hit that putt extremely hard because I was in a hurry. If you listen to the strike you can hear how loud it hits the edge of my screen. It was only a 20 foot putt. I can only record for so long and was in a hurry.

[st_golfer]

PG should work with Mac, but I would imagine there needs to be a Skytrak component for the sim integration. That shouldn't be that difficult for Skytrak to do given that the platform is similar to iOS. But there's a lot going on - may not be there day 1.

Either way, I thought I read elsewhere that you could run PG on a Mac with bootcamp. And the Skytrak/sim integration on Windows has already been done with TGC about to be released.

In my research on this, the word is that the Skytrak integration will be built into the PG code. I am assuming it's using Rapsodo like WGT and E6 do. But yes if you have Bootcamp set up it will work fine on Windows.

[John6577]

Have Parallells running on my Mac. Assuming that is an issue much like it is for TGC. Hopefully I can get it all to work on my Mac when they have the final product ready to go for Skytrak.

[dsailer]

In my research on this, the word is that the Skytrak integration will be built into the PG code. I am assuming it's using Rapsodo like WGT and E6 do. But yes if you have Bootcamp set up it will work fine on Windows.

Good to know. I have a new Macbook Pro and plan to wait it out until PG/Skytrak is released.

[wilson]

Read somewhere that Andrew from PP says they don't have permission to use Augusta - even though they have an internal version that is apparently "1st Class".
They expect someone to get it done in the editor with the LIDAR library making it very very realistic without their help.

[wilson]

1.3.9 is out. Lots of new features and physics updates. And ST out of the box.
Roll on Monday!

[jrz]

1.3.9 is out. Lots of new features and physics updates. And ST out of the box.
Roll on Monday!

What do you mean by "ST out of the box"?

[Brettster]

Awesome, but I'm not sure ST is built in,here's exactly what it says on Steam website (for 1.3.9 release) of Perfect Golf:
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We have added a number of integrations into the game which will be available based on the manufacturers decision to release and pricing. So far we have completed SkyTrak, Trackman3, Trackman4, Our own Generic TCP IP plugin with several more coming soon. For now only the Simulator option (Our Generic TCP IP will show in your user choices.)
--

I think this means that ST, Trackman3, and Trackman4 will work, without doing anything, but I'm not sure, as the third sentence there says: only the Generic TCP IP will show as user choices in the Simulator option. Does this mean ST, Trackman3, Trackman 4 will work without selecting a Simulator option choice, or does it mean they will not work, and only the Generic TCP IP will work?

If someone has it running, and they have a ST, could you test it and see, and let us know?

[leoapd]

Ran new PG update tonight... Seems like new additions are nice. My MacBook Pro is having a hard time with running it in higher resolution. My card is probably not up to par for it. Not very computer savvy.

[jrz]

I downloaded the update to version 1.3.9. When you go to the game controller settings there is an option to select Skytrak. When you select this option the Raspodo splash screen appears. Unfortunately, however, when I went to start a round the game crashed. Has anyone been able to get a round to start with Skytrak selected?

[ForeLeft]

I downloaded the update to version 1.3.9. When you go to the game controller settings there is an option to select Skytrak. When you select this option the Raspodo splash screen appears. Unfortunately, however, when I went to start a round the game crashed. Has anyone been able to get a round to start with Skytrak selected?

I tried and same thing. Looked at the logs and skytrak module is crashing inside calls to get_License. I guess it is not finding valid license information.

[sb81]

It lit up my skytrak and when I started the round and hole 1 was started on the tee box my the laser ball dot came up too. Was too late and cold to bring my laptop and skytrak to the garage to test swing... Also when I selected skytrak in the options it told me it was not licensed but lit up regardless. When I try some test swings, it may do nothing or repeat the no license message... I'll try in a bit and report back.

[Tekbud]

Perfect golf won't be playable on the public build without the security layer unlocked via a license file from Skygolf. As you have seen, the integration is complete. We are now just waiting on the skygolf storefront updates to allow us to purchase the software just as we are for any other integrations.

[wilson]

I get the crash also - so close! It's failing on the license check. I tried replacing the SkyTrakSW file with the E6 one to see if that works but the game got real funny and courses had no names and holes. Probably should be a bit more user friendly error than just a crash though.