Dancin' Dogg is pleased to announce the release of OptiShot 2.5, our latest and greatest!
The update is automatic as long as your OptiShot computer is connected to the internet. Simply launch the software and if prompted, click Update Optishot to begin the process.
You can also find the latest OptiShot update here: OptiShot Software
Completely redesigned interface. New look and new colors.
- Optishots new clean interface makes it easy to read and navigate.
- Function specific menus in each corner of the screen - Shot menu, Location menu, Clubs menu and Tools menu.
- New controls with the on-screen displays. Easy tabs to slide information on screen and off.
Expand your game experience
- We've added a new set of Game Types:
Match, Skins, Alternate Shot, Stableford, Better Ball, and Best Ball. - Customize your game length:
Play the Front 9, Back 9 or select custom holes. - New control over putting:
Putt out or set Gimmies, AutoPutt or Manual entry of putts within a specified distance
Pinpoint Practice Range
- Accuracy lines:
See how far off center line you are and improve your drives. - Target rings:
See how accurate you are for more Greens in Regulation. - Dispersion view:
New flyby gives you a bird's-eye view of your shots, see your dispersion. - Percentages and bar graph to let you know how precise your shots are.
More controls over physics
- Set the ball physics: Set fairway and green speeds.
- Course physics: Set the difficulty for different lies - light rough, rough and bunker.
- Modify the wind speed and direction from within the game
All Platinum Courses available for your preview
- Every Platinum Course can be previewed up to 3 times.
- Game or Practice: You can get a feel for the course either in Game Mode or Practice Mode.
- New core course: Warwick Hills is released as our new free course.
Program Localization
- The entire game is available in eight languages: English, Spanish, French, French-Canadian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese both simplified and traditional.
Just wondering if I upgrade my video card from a 512 to eliminate some slightly choppy fps , would my picture be smoother and could I go HD ? What would be the best amount of ram for this game ?
I've got mine running on an old 320MB NVIDIA card with 4GB of RAM - runs fine - no choppiness. Just don't get a laptop with a shared / integrated video card. Having a dedicated video card is key.
Not quite true, I am running on a Dell N7110 and its flawless, this has a hybrid graphics processor, and a laptop is a fantastic solution it lets me take my dancin' dogg system to friends what's more with its HDMI output it can be connected to big screen TV . Not so sure the wives share this opinion ;)
So I upgraded to a GeForce gte 640 with 1 Gb with an HDMI connection and it looks and moves much better. Also, I have installed an inch of that fitness foam under my optishot to absorb some stress and keep the sound down.
Thanks Catman, I now have TW08 working again with the new updates. A lot of moving files but its working again. Now to see if game ranger is the answer or not. Thinking of selling my opti shot for a P3pro if anyone is interested. Online play sounds way to cool to stay with an antiquated opti, especially if you live in the snowy cold areas in the winter. Looking to get a winter league going from the comfort of home!
Actually that was a dumb comment, if I lived somewhere warm year round I wouldn't need it anyway!
John Jarrell -
If your not happy with your opti then go pound sand. We who are here love it and want to make it better.
Go get whatever system you want, but keep your comments here to Opti Shot, not another product.
Ok Mr Whistling Straights, problem is its a public forum and Optishot needs to rise to the competition. In my opinion same price now less features! So go pound it yourself! Your comment is rude and uncalled for! Also you should read up before buying a product, Tiger Woods not only works with it but enhances the gameplay, would like to tell you how to get it to work but your a smart guy so you can figure that out yourself.
If you want to buy another product.............go do it and comment in their forum. I didn't by opti for TW08, I bought opti to maintain my single digit handicap during the winter with no other option to hit balls. What I LOVE about opti is it's a simulator. I have bought 8 of the premium courses, my friends come over to play. See this post states why I love Opti, if you want another Sim, sell yours on ebay and move on. We don't need to hear complaining here. Send a trouble ticket and move on. My comments weren't rude, there were factual and relevant.
I think you need to read ALL of my posts Mr Sensitive
You don't upgrade a product and remove feature (Bad Business) It's kinda like downgrading your product
With TW08 I have THOUSANDS of REAL courses to not only enhance my REAL LIFE 14 handicap but it was taken away.
No Online play.....maybe if we had it I would see if your 'Single Digit" handicap really was what you say.
I am not sure why I am falling to your level of disrespect for others decisions.
Being a business owner I listen to my customers. Therefore I give the people what they want to retain and grown my business. I also watch my competition closely and be innovative and gear towards beating my competition and not following! That is was makes you a true winner, just like on the course. If you continue to praise a currently antiquated software it will never get better. Next time I am near Kohler and playing the river course at Wolf Run maybe we can truly see your single digit scores posted in the clubhouse.
I think the ship has completely sailed for you..........this forum is an opti shot forum. I appreciate your comments about Opti Shot. What I don't appreciate is discussing other products, this is not a product comparison forum, start one if you like and then you extoll the virtues of how great a business you run and who knows, maybe opti will hire you as their next CEO?
Next time CEDIA is in Indy, I'd be happy to play in Kohler, Erin Hills, Cog Hill or any of those courses with you. I actually would gladly pay $500 again to play the Straits course, hardest course I have ever played.
Until then, maybe you can meet us in Bandon Ore. this summer? Or maybe in Denver at the end of September? Happy to play Red Sky with you. Do you see, I love talking GOLF!!! And especially Opti Golf. Again, my whole point was not to knock you but your comments about selling your opti and buying something else. If you want to do that, then great, do it. But I don't see how that helps us.
Bad timing but I'm not sure if TW 08 works or doesn't work on the optishot now ? Also , the only time I tried it was with the older update and I was getting crazy low club head speeds . Can anyone please let me know how to make it work and how to get a more accurate results, settings ?
Thanks,
Stephen
Love to see that you travel the world playing on real courses, I really can't see with an attitude like yours during a wonderful holiday season, how you could find anyone to play with you. Therefore I hope to inspire some Holiday Cheer and wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season. PS, when the folks at OptiShot update thier product to the competition's I will be awaiting a sincere apology and thank you.
Riggy69
I would be happy to help you out.
I have Windows 7 & Windows 8 on my system so the folders might vary on your system:
First I renamed the folders in the following places:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Dancin' Dogg Golf (Just add a letter or number to the end)
C:\Users(YOURNAME)\AppData\Roaming\DancinDogg Golf (Just add a letter or number to the end)
C:\ProgramData\DancinDogg Golf (Just add a letter or number to the end)
Once you have changed these reinstall from your earlier version CD making sure to stop the updates when you see them starting.
Now you should see two sets of the above folders in the same file locations. All I needed to do was change the newly installed folder names to (example DancinDogg Golfold) and then go back to the folders you renamed before and change them back to the original format. You then can go to the old folders with the old software and create a link on your desktop to the executive file for practice zone. One you bring up the practice zone screen it might ask for your cd key again. (see photos for the location of Tiger Woods) remember anything after TW2008 does not work (or at least I have not figured it out) If for some reason this does not work for you you will have lost nothing...just uninstall and reinstall the software, I had to do this a couple of times before it worked. Hope this helps many but you and with a little luck DD will bring it back in a upgrade modification. You can then get thousands of upgraded courses from http://www.coursedownloads.com...new courses arrive all the time and there are great CG designers putting out some great work!
http://www.coursedownloads.com sorry the "New" added to the link location.
Wow John , thank you a very detailed walkthrough. I totally appreciate your time and info and when DD does go online we'll have a match.
Thanks
Stephen
If I may: All this arguing looks kinda silly. I am software biz owner, so this is my .02. I think we should agree both sides are a little at fault. First, customers should not expect Dancin' Dogg to care one bit about Tiger Woods since it is not their product. They don't develop it, make money from it, nor should they support it. Personally I don't like it and never used it since my first try. Second, I think DD has opportunity to communicate better with every sofware update. When Opti opens and tells you an update is available, users should go to the website (via link) and have a detailed explanation of what you gain and what you lose - even if it is a long explanation. Third, DD should then explain to users that the last version will no longer be supported by the company after 45 days (or whatever) so users can make their own decision about the upgrade and risks. Although I am a huge fan of DD and play every day, I think it would have been a plus for them to indicate no using TW08 is no longer an option.
So now that TW08 is gone, can we just get back to discussing this fine update! I like everything about it except it appears a few small fixes should be in the works (like scorecard at finish, etc.). I love it.
No problem Stephen....tis the season....I also seen that http://www.gameranger.com/ also supports online play of TW08 but have not had time to see if it will work. Hopefully someone reading this will get the time to try and let us know how it works! Happy Holidays everyone!
Thanks Robert, I agree with your statement to some extent but in my mindset being #2 is unacceptable to me. I strive to be #1 in everything I do and that is was makes me better. Of course there are some things I will never be better at (Including Golf) yet I will die trying to prefect my game. Again thank you for posting this I truly admire your professionalism and Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Riggy69 email me at [email protected] if you want to play Tigerwoods tonight using optishot. I'll give you my phone number through Email, Thanks CatMan I'm try to get a couple of others as well
Guys, P3Proswing simulator has online play now with over 30,000 users, I need to hear words of encouragement from Optishot if I'm sticking around. There Unit is reasonably Priced..
I asked this questions 2 weeks ago I havent heard a response... I asking again publicly this time, dancindogg is it in the plans to go online??? Please give me some kind of answer, I really want to stick it out with Opti.
Thanks Catman
Upgrade to version 2.5.
The game sounds don't work now.
Anyone have this happen? Know how to fix it?
Just got home and can't feed my addiction in the garage tonight. Hopefully I will have time tomorrow to hook up the TW on my optishot . I hope my CHS will be accurate this time . You'll be the first person I play John. Also I do love the new 2.5 update but I wish the pull out window on the top right (the map of the top view) would have an option to stay or briefly show and disappear so we'll see more of the course.
Hey Riggy,
Did you get your junk going? Catman, Ray & I were playing a quick 18 on the Opti today....1200 miles away, talking and playing....Thanks Catman for the inspiration and the help of getting this thing rolling. I look forward to making it a several night a week playtime!
JJ
Your Welcome, all is welcomed, we can get some kind of league going... Match play, Alternate shot, best ball etc,,,,
CatMan
For those of you not quite sure, here is a small video of Catman, Ray and I playing Harbor Town from over 1000 miles away from each other on our Optishot Sunday! Just follow the link! Let us know if you want to learn how to use Tiger Woods and play online with the rest of us!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnLVFLwjlTI
Ok so after trying three times and almost losing my premium courses for the second time , I'm just going to wait for the TW to become availabe for the new update or just wait until DD is online. Thanks for the help John .Your video was cool but I really haven't played TW that much and think the DD gameplay is more realistic than TW 08 .What do you think ?
Hey Riggy,
First off you will never lose your premium courses. These are tied to your email account and will continue to load anytime you do an update. In my opinion, some of the courses are better than optishot courses. My "Real" golf partners have played bth and the always prefer playing TW over the opti courses. Most of the TW courses have equal to or better graphics than the new Warwick Hills course. I do however believe that the unit itself is far from being more than a sensing mouse. Fact, occasionally you will hit a fat shot or better yet a thin shot and top the ball, yet you will never do this on the opti system. The key is getting the distance setting correct on TW. Therefore in my opinion without reading the balls trajectory it's just a game pad. For those of you cringing right now, face reality, it will improve your centering and your club angl but that's it. Being said its a whole lot of fun playing thousands of courses from the confines of your home on a cold blustery day. If you want some help getting it going you (or anyone else) shoot me an email at [email protected] or you can reach Catman at [email protected]. Either of us can get you going.
Riggy your more than welcome to call me and I'll walk you through it, I got the settings dialed with TW on expert mode it like being out there on the real course. Hitting your distances slices and drawing etc.. no grids on green so you have to read them.. Putting is dead on.. Give me your email address and I send you my phone number and walk you through it..
CatMan
Hey Catman thanks again for your time last week. I was just wondering what clubset you are all using and how much offset on each club ? I use the players and the iron default offset settings seem fine but to to get a good reading on my woods I offset .175 on my driver and 100 on MY 3 wood and .075 on my 5 wood.