Water effects only seem to work when Shader set to Low or Medium - any way to get effects at higher settings?

little late leaving a comment i know , but excellent course that also runs real smooth , many thanks for sharing always fun to play

Hello Fiestiamo,

When you are on Win7, Win8 or Vista then you will have to run TWCaddie08 as administrator.
Also be sure to use the correct version of TWCaddie08: 32bit or 64bit version.
Some detailed help below:

When you are using win7 or Vista, follow this link:
http://www.coursedownloads.com/forum/posts.asp?post=8478&forum=32

When you are using win8, read the second post on this link:
http://www.coursedownloads.com/forum/posts.asp?post=9641&forum=32

Hi OneOfOne, i have sent you personal message with some help

Hi jbarton1608,
I will send you personal message with some help

Wonderfull work for a wonderfull course, playing "The mMsters" is now possible.
Congratulations and thank you Ken.

It's been almost a year since the last comment. Just to let you know Ken that your design is still alive and well.... Look at the rating after more then 21000 downloads...speaks for itself....Thanks for sharing your talent with us.

Great course, fantastic detail,well done.

i am new here,i have all tiger wooods pga tour games,but i started off with 2004 cause i didnt have internet then.Ken, i have downloaded everyone of your courses,and you have an eye for detail,and the playability is fabulous.the realisim on all your nationals makes a golf nut like me have endless hours of fun.ohh by the way shot a 58 on your agusta 2004.cant wait to play this one.

This is the first course I've downloaded for TW2K8 so far and it's awesome! I had some issues with flickering when I first installed it, but I think that may be more of an issue with the drivers for my Graphics card.

Awesome post by Jeff Jarvis. That solved my problem that I was getting with the course not showing up (installed via course caddie).

I misunerstood the post at first and was trying to remove spaces following the last 2008 part (at the end). To make this pretty clear for everyone, you need to remove the space by the first 2008 part of the path. I will add an asterisk to point this out for everyone:

C:\Program Files\EA SPORTS\Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08\Courses\Augusta 2008*\Augusta 2008.tcr

* is there the extra space is and needs to be deleted.

Continue to delete that space on the other 4 lines of the course caddie property paths.
Thanks again, Jeff.

Jeff, thank you sir, that has solved the problem and made my day! Now I can get 18 holes in at Augusta before the coverage comes on to UK TV in about half an hour!

I have installed the myZip but when I go to load it in game there is no text file, splash screen, and when I click tee-off the game cant find the .tcr

Can anyone help? I installed and ran another course with no problem. Is it something to do with the library change? Im desperate to play this and if I can get it working will make a donation to the site for providing the tools to do so so answers hugely appreciated! Thanks

Very close to perfection! IMHO, a nice step up from 2007. The look and feel are beautiful. Just a couple of minor changes and I dont know what else would be left to be done. The swale front and left of the 3rd green should probably be deeper and maybe the 5th green could be worked on a bit adding especially the big dip in the front. Add in the crowd and this would be a dream come true for all PC golfers. Thanks, Ken!

I am getting an error message in game. I have a blank course Icon and when I click on it, it says missing course text file and make sure course cd is in the drive. I also have this same message with the Gardenia course. I have approximately 70 other courses and do not have issues except for these 2 courses. Thank You

Hi Ken..with the v2 lib. this course is so playable an by far your best work of this course..just a work of art..Thx

All Kens versions of Augusta have been high quality but Im thinking this is the best one yet.

Well my 2 cents are this, on this course you need to speed up the greens, and for a right-handed player you need to hit a draw. This is the most downloaded course every year, and gets the most public attention. Some general notes about Augusta: Hole 9 the 1st 10 feet are unplayable, everything will roll off, #10 drops 100 feet tee to green, that is insane for this video game, it is almost impossible to create that power slot on 10 were you get another 50 yards of roll. No one has every gotten the look of this hole correct. Greens like hole #3 is titled so much, that the avg. Joe can 4 putt from 3 feet. To build a perfect simulation of the 16th green is not possible, that slope is 2 insane. Holes 10,11,12 and 13 are the single hardest holes to create for this game. What about the swirling winds on #12, it that possible to create? from studding the great courses of the world, I found that, once you get to the green area, is were the players skill level is tested. There are specific windows were you need to hit the ball, if you miss, you will not get up and down. Augusta National is one of these courses it is risk and reward, smarts, course mgmt, than you need the skill of a surgeon on the putting surfaces. Players who win at Augusta have also won or done very well at St. Andrew’s. Both courses demand a similar set of skills. I played Ken’s course back in 03, and what amazed me was the advanced level of game play for a video game, things have changed in the last 5 seasons, but the concepts have not.

I would rather play a slightly inaccurate version of Augusta than not play Augusta at all. This version, in my opinion, plays very much like what I see on TV. When I break par in the wind here, I feel like Ive beat the game. My versions of real courses are not exact copies, nobodys are, but we get to play them when we are done, and we get to imagine we are walking the same fairways as Tiger, Jones, Hogan and all the rest. Isnt that what this is all about? Id rather that walk wasnt spoiled by pointing out flaws.

This is a very good rendition in my opinion, best one yet. nice job Ken.

Mmmm a lot has been said about this particular version of Augusta. With so much mixed comment on this and other sites, wouldnt it suggest to the balanced mind that in actual fact, this rendition is not as squeaky perfect as some might suggest, in fear of upsetting someone?

Seemms to me where theres smoke etc. So, I downloaded it and tried it myself and will now provide my pennyworth and mistake me not, I am not afraid of speaking my mind, as a fellow designer, I expect people to be honest. I hate and ignore those comments which are just wishywashy lovegiving b*****ks! Give a designer real feedback is far more valuable IMHO. (Although, it should be done in an intelligent manner and without being personal) Say what impressed you the most, complimented with what impressed you the least. This results in a fair summation of a piece of work.

I play Expert and very dry and I also design. To design and recreate a REAL LIFE course into a computer simulation game, is difficult and takes skill and patience, plus 100s of tests along the journy of creation. This is my own opinion, learned from experience. To get a real Life-like rendition (as far as possible within a computer game) one must have real knowledge of the subject matter and this does not mean watching a few shots on TV.

This means walking the course and comprehensive research, wherever possible. There also has to be a balance. A licence if you like, where we accept and acknowledge, that we are creating a game and that no simulation (unless hundreds of thousands of bucks, are invested in the technology) will ever, result in life realism. We should also be making a course that is playable for all skills and conditions.

My thoughts about Augusta are not for the zombies out there who just love everything...this feedback is for Ken, so that he can take what he considers to be useful to him alone, into his next design.

In my own preferred mode of play, I found most of the greens unenjoyable. Frustrating would be closer to the truth and not in a fun way. The slope on most greens is inaccurate compared to the real course, plus there has been no quarter given to those who play expert and very dry...I realise fully, that there will be some amongst you, who play the same and disagree, but this is myu own experience and I have benchamrked the performance against my weekly average taken over 12 months playing the PGAX tour, on all sorts of courses.

It is frustrating for anyone, who putts up to a hole, playing for lag/weight, only to see the ball reach to within a few inches of the cup and then roll back to a point beyond where you started. This is where licence comes into it. A simple solution, would be to flatten a 10 foot area around each pin, where a green contains severe slope.

There does seem to be inaccuracies in this rendition, compared with the real course too, however, I am not as qualified as some, who will have actuially walked the course/attended several events there, so I am simply going on what I have read and seen through various media.

All in all, I personally found this version to be below par, compared to previous versions by Ken.

Finally, my thoughts are that if we, the community, are stifled from providing honest feedback, a designer...new or experienced, will never improve. Although there will be many who enjoy this version (and disagree with everything I have written) I am sadly, not going to be one of them.

Zee

Its funny that I get the very same complaint about my fantasu course. lol. Like Rob said, if your create greens that are truly realistic (i.e. with a maximum slope of 36), they would be ridiculously easy in cyber golf. What do you want, a course that challenges your cyber golf skills, or a realistic reproduction thjats basically just for walking around s far as playing goes.

First off, I never insultated anyone. I did not say the course was not well done or anything. I stated it was not accurate. That is a FACT. I have been there and stood next to each of those greens and the elevations are not correct. This course is listed as real not fantasy and it is not a real representation of what it really is. That is all.

Tour Manager and Design Manager of the CGX Tour, the best place online for PGA Style tournament play on custom courses. Often imitated, never duplicated.

Played the front nine and then uninstalled. Green elevations where too severe/unrealistic compared to the actual course. Number one is virtually unplayable on very dry and elevated to over 7 feet. The actual green is approx 36 at most front to back. Too bad too, as Augusta is one of the loftiest shrines of golf.

Gunpower61
Thanks you. The course will play better now. Thanks again!

Ken

Outstanding rendition of an outstanding course. I already cant wait for 09. Thanks Ken.

never mind I got it resolved. now off to check this puppy out...

Best version yet. The new textures are perfect. Thank you for updating this every year.

Great job Ken! Thanks.

Ken, a beautiful course, thanks for this one, it looks and plays great. You
do great work with the tools we have and its hard to get a course like this
done. I hope to see more from you this year.

ron

Great course Ken....thank you very much