Rapsodo's MLM2XPRO plays Payne's Valley fast, but its elevation readouts miss

Golf Simulator Videos posted a nine-hole test of the Rapsodo MLM2XPRO on Wednesday, playing the back nine at Payne's Valley in Rapsodo's new 4K Studios PC software. The tester's verdict: shot response is quick, putting works without extra hardware, and the software still has a few green-reading bugs to fix.

What he liked

The 2X in the name refers to processing that's twice as fast, and he says you can feel it on course. Shots leave the screen almost the moment the ball does. Putting needs no add-on device. He thinks the unit reads speed and direction in the first few frames, so his bouncy, worn mat didn't throw off putts, and he made a 30-footer and holed several others on the nine.

Chipping, a complaint some owners had with the original MLM2PRO, gave him no trouble. The hitting area is a decent size, so the ball doesn't have to sit dead center. It also locks on fast once it's set up. It flagged "ball outside hitting area" when he moved the ball too far back, and "ball not found" when he covered it, then picked it up again right away. He ran it with the RPT ball and a USB-C cable to his desktop, and a plain USB-A to USB-C cable from Amazon worked fine.

The graphics also won him over. He called the course art hand-polished rather than generic, pointing to rock detail, a turning water wheel and big elevation changes, plus approach and drone camera views.

What needs work

Elevation numbers were the main problem. On one green the software said 0 feet when the flag sat clearly above him. On another it called a putt a foot downhill while the ball rolled back toward him. He also noticed 3D grass fading out close to the player even on an RTX 5090, a small frame stutter while recording at a high bit rate, and a ball-landing sound he'd like to be more of a thud than a click. He plans to pass all of it to Rapsodo and noted a firmware update had just landed.

What to do now

If you're shopping in the MLM2XPRO's price range and want putting without extra gear, this video is a good look at real course play. Until Rapsodo patches the slope readouts, use the green heat map or grid instead of trusting the uphill and downhill number. He learned that after a wedge rolled back off a false front.