 influx of video avatars, are they slowing anyone else down? |
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 Apr 28 2010, 05:42 AM
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 Race Driver  Group: Members Posts: 3,587 Joined: 2-October 07 From: Canada Member No.: 4,080 Car: 2009 Subaru Legacy  |
Is anyone else getting slowed down by the crazy DS trend of having video avatars? It seriously takes my computer a few seconds to load each one, during which I can't scroll.
My computer isn't bad either, its a 17 inch MBP with 4gig of RAM and a 2.7 ghz Core 2 Duo. |
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Apr 28 2010, 06:00 AM
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 IT SLIDES! Group: Moderators Posts: 6,345 Joined: 5-February 07 From: Maine Member No.: 3,670 Car: Volkswagen R32 Mk V |
QUOTE(Bjorn @ Apr 28 2010, 09:42 AM)  Is anyone else getting slowed down by the crazy DS trend of having video avatars? It seriously takes my computer a few seconds to load each one, during which I can't scroll. My computer isn't bad either, its a 17 inch MBP with 4gig of RAM and a 2.7 ghz Core 2 Duo. What browser are you using? |
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Apr 28 2010, 06:19 AM
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 Pit Mechanic Group: Members Posts: 1,071 Joined: 23-January 07 From: Southeast US Member No.: 3,645 Car: Official Member of the VAG Club |
QUOTE(Razor @ Apr 28 2010, 07:00 AM) What browser are you using? + 1 . Even my ancient dell laptop 512ram, and single core something or other processor can swing it. |
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Apr 28 2010, 08:45 AM
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 ZoomZoom Group: Members Posts: 3,089 Joined: 21-February 06 From: Durham, NC Member No.: 2,281 Car: 2011 Mazdaspeed 3 |
I've personally never had any issues with them loading...I use Chrome if it makes any difference.
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Apr 28 2010, 09:28 AM
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Race Driver Group: Members Posts: 3,587 Joined: 2-October 07 From: Canada Member No.: 4,080 Car: 2009 Subaru Legacy |
I use chrome too.
Maybe it's something else, but I have noticed that when scrolling up my browser pauses from anywhere from 2 to 30 seconds before letting me scroll past an avatar with video. |
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Apr 28 2010, 10:17 AM
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 Talkin' the talk since 2003 Group: Admin Posts: 28,271 Joined: 27-August 03 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 27 Car: 2004 VW GTI 1.8T |
Not having any issues on either my work laptop in IE or my home computer in firefox.
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Apr 28 2010, 11:48 AM
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IT SLIDES! Group: Moderators Posts: 6,345 Joined: 5-February 07 From: Maine Member No.: 3,670 Car: Volkswagen R32 Mk V |
Okay, I was curious so I did some tests.
Constants: (Laptop Specs) 15" MacBook Pro (late 2006 model) 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM ATI Radeon X1600 w/ 128 MB VRAM Mac OS 10.6.3 (latest) Variables: (Browsers) - Safari 4.0.5 (lastest) - Chrome 5.0.342.9 (latest) - Firefox 3.5.3 (latest) Conclusion: Safari: did not immediately display the animations but also did not lag whatsoever. Chrome: lagged horribly, scrolling issue as you noted was definitely apparent. Had to wait for everything on the page to load before anything worked. Got the "beachball of death." Firefox: no issues, animations loaded quickly and as smoothly as hardware will allow. There you have it. Chrome for Mac fails at animated GIFs. |
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Apr 28 2010, 01:16 PM
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 Only the Soul survives Group: Moderators Posts: 6,580 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Florida Member No.: 813 Car: Honda |
Okay, because this has been happening to me with chrome on my MBP, and I guess I never noticed it before. It lags horribly, especially on other sites I'm on that allow pictures in sigs, and a few people have three or four, and I hate it!
Edit: Vavagool's is bad on whatever browser I use, It's 4 megabites.... |
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