Can I download an online course for offline use???

[V.Hüp]

Hi community,

The connection from CN is very very very slow. Sometimes you have to wait half an hour or even longer for the game to start loading an online course. Also, the time on viewing a PGA page (which contains online information) is also slow and sometimes shows an error of connection.

Is there any walk-arounds, or simply, is it possible for me to download an online course for offline use? Is there any 3rd party websites that provides downloadable courses?

I simply want to enjoy a relaxing time (alone), but bored with the limited pre-installed official sites. If there's no way to solve this problem, I won't spend a penny on the 2k21, because there's no clue at all showing the newer version has solved this money-wasting problem.

[Wirenut48]

Something sounds off, what's your system specs? All the objects and textures are already on the HD, all your downloading is a text file to tell the game what and where to place them. I believe it is then created in system memory so your PC may be some of the issue.

[V.Hüp]

Originally posted by Wirenut48:

Something sounds off, what's your system specs? All the objects and textures are already on the HD, all your downloading is a text file to tell the game what and where to place them. I believe it is then created in system memory so your PC may be some of the issue.

I mean those online community-created courses awa. PGA tour. They are not pre-installed, and need to be automatically re-downloaded by the game every time we choose an online course. However, as I entitled above, the connection from Asia is super slow which is completely unbearable. Don't know what you were talking about. It's nothing about PC spec, right?

[Wirenut48]

User course info you download is not a complete course file. It's just a DNA imprint which is used to build the course with the Course Creators preinstalled textures and objects. The text file your downloading is fairly small compared to what a complete course file would be. So even with a slow internet it shouldn't take that long. That's what makes me think there has to be something else wrong.

How long does it take to load an Official course?

A faster PC can process this data faster and load it to RAM. And if you don't have adequate memory it may also need to use the slower HD virtual memory. So PC specs can come into play with loading times.

[V.Hüp]

Originally posted by Wirenut48:

User course info you download is not a complete course file. It's just a DNA imprint which is used to build the course with the Course Creators preinstalled textures and objects. The text file your downloading is fairly small compared to what a complete course file would be. So even with a slow internet it shouldn't take that long. That's what makes me think there has to be something else wrong.

How long does it take to load an Official course?

A faster PC can process this data faster and load it to RAM. And if you don't have adequate memory it may also need to use the slower HD virtual memory. So PC specs can come into play with loading times.

Hi Wirenut, it is pretty sure that the problem relates to the in-game internet connection, because the loading progress bar won't show up at all within approx half an hour when trying to load an online course (despite which course I've chosen). When entering an pre-installed course in offline mode, however, the whole process is always done within 10 seconds. This is quite obviously showing that the 2K server (or specifically its Asian route) holds some reasons.

My internet connections (either China or Thai one) are good, normally 4MB/s download speed. Macbook Air 2017, which runs the game smoothly after entered an course. Have tried re-install TPF, Steam, Windows. And even on friends' computer, the same problem remains.