Simulator venue troubleshooting
Things that go wrong in golf simulator and sim racing venues, and what actually fixes them. Written from running three venues — every page here exists because something broke on us first.
Guides
- Wake-on-LAN not working on a simulator PC? The 5 real causes Packets go out, the rig stays dark. The five causes in order of likelihood, the two-minute test that tells them apart, and what to do when the answer is "none of them".
- Launch monitor not connecting? Why "it disappeared" usually means nothing The most common false alarm in a simulator venue. Why an idle launch monitor vanishes from the network while working perfectly, and how to ask a question that gets a true answer.
Setting up SimCenter
- Install guide Getting SimCenter onto the PCs at a venue, step by step.
Why we write these
We run three simulator venues. Everything on this site started as a problem we had at 9pm with a customer standing in a bay — the rig that would not wake, the launch monitor that looked dead and was not, the monitoring that cried wolf until we stopped believing it.
SimCenter is the tool we built so those things get caught before a customer finds them. The guides are free and stand on their own, whether or not you ever use it.
See how SimCenter works →