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[Matty.N]

My little craptop cant handle it

Im currently:

encoding some HD clips in Virtual Dub @ even higher processing priority
uploading to youtube
sharing the torrents ive downloaded (ratio at 1.3 atm )
have msn open
have WMP 11 open

all this stress & my laptop cant handle it so would like to know how to stop it as it isnt as simple as the mecca

and no im not being a scrooge like todd

oh and when trying to play any games in the casino, the snow makes it lag

[piesthecat]

when the snow reachs the bottom of my screen it scrolls down for no reason

[Matty.N]

when the snow reachs the bottom of my screen it scrolls down for no reason

Cause your a plonker and your probably pressing on the touchpad too hard

Now go subscribe to me on youtube as i subbed you even though i dont know why i did (:

8 subbs in 1 night, im on a roll

[cardie]

8 subbs in 1 night, im on a roll

Achooo!

[Matty.N]

Achooo!

if thats hinting at what i think then i subscribed to you a few days after i got my new account, hell my old eminemster2k acc is still subscribed, after being deleted 3 months ago o.O

[roderz]

I too would really like to stop this bloody snow !!!!

as it just killing my PC as firefox is using 98% of my cpu when on this site!

Really is making it unusable! ;-(

HELP!!!

Edited by roderz, 16 December 2009 - 01:48 PM.

[todd1970]

Hmmm...wierd cos it runs ok on my PC.

Although i do have 3GB ram and a dual core +4800 cpu (2.41ghz) dunno if 'lower end' spec PC's and craptops might kinda struggle with it.

If the general consensus is that its messing up too many folks machines ill put a thread up in the staff area FAO Duplu to take it off.

[Matty.N]

Hmmm...wierd cos it runs ok on my PC.

Although i do have 3GB ram and a dual core +4800 cpu (2.41ghz) dunno if 'lower end' spec PC's and craptops might kinda struggle with it.

If the general consensus is that its messing up too many folks machines ill put a thread up in the staff area FAO Duplu to take it off.

its not that it needs taking off

i dont mind it but when im multi tasking it does get a bit laggy

& mines not far off yours todd

1.8ghz dual core
2gb of ram

but its an intel GFX Chipset which s 99% of the problem >=/

im sure there will be an option like on the mecca

[Zoltar]

I find it funny really. I sympathise with the problems some are having, slowing down laptops ect..., but I'm sure those with these problems are in the very small minority.

I wonder if Boots will turn off their shitty music as I'm a miserable bastard and hate Christmas.

Or that the police at the station near me push their cars past my house on a night so as not to wake me up if they drive them past.

Maybe Greggs, just for me, will not put tomato's in their pre-made sandwiches as I'm not all that keen.

Oh yeah. And it'll be 'slaps' for my mam if she's watching telly when I go around her place on Boxing Day.

Could you guys not adjust your PC settings? Reduce the screen res or find out other ways of releasing resources.

We are all guests here. Me included. The site is provided as is. If the site didn't work for me, I'd have to accept that. And it would be up to me to remedy that. This is life unfortunately.

If your car ain't fast enough, you need a better one. Try asking the Transport Agency if they will start to make all new roads go downhill.

[cashbox1]

ha ha ha love it Zoltar - its a case of you can please some people some time...........

[Matty.N]

I find it funny really. I sympathise with the problems some are having, slowing down laptops ect..., but I'm sure those with these problems are in the very small minority.

a fair few of us are on craptops

and i dont want it off

just wwant to be able to pause it like we can on the mecca

simples (:

and even though im on a wider resoloution your sig still means i have to scroll sideways to quote you

[roderz]

^^^^^

Wot he said

[Zoltar]

..........and even though im on a wider resoloution your sig still means i have to scroll sideways to quote you

Wait til I gets a nice long 'Bendy-Bus'. You'll need to have 2 monitors side by side lol.

[stanmarsh14]

K folks......

There is a fault with firefox v3.5.5 and v3.5.6 (Released the past few days), where on this site and the mecca, the pages will rag the f*** out of your hard drive for some reason, especaly on machines with low ram / cpu's.

IE though does not have the same problem.

I actualy thought I got hit by a virus again, but I managed to get the same fault, come up on my linux rig, also running firefox, and that is a sck939 amd athlon 3600 64 / 2 gig of memory, so is normaly more than ample enough to run most stuff, especaly web browsing, but use SuSE's other browser Konkquer, and that works fine, just like IE on my windows machines.

Realy need to find a way to perm turn the snow storm theme off by default on user accounts, to sort this for now.

[stanmarsh14]

k, just visited Mozilla's IRC Support chat.... looks like a scripting issue with the snow, so for a temp workround in Firefox, use No Script or an ad blocker to control it, but be warned, you need to set it right.

Chat log is posted here, but we really need a way to perm turn off the snow at least.

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[stanmarsh14]

[9:55pm] sm14|lappy: meh. this interests me because I'm wondering if the folks that wrote the snow intended it to be used at that number of flakes/speed
[9:55pm] or if they are making assumptions about browser optimisations

[10:13pm] sm14|lappy: looks like crucial parameters are speed of snow falling
[10:13pm] ajonat (ajonat@CDBF9B41.4BF5A22.427E0E7B.IP) has joined. «161 people»
[10:13pm] and animation interval
[10:13pm] sm14|lappy: but it is still kind of CPU hungry
[10:13pm] sm14|lappy: looking to see if the flakes do anything that might cause any recalculations on firefox' part

[10:20pm] sm14|lappy: oh. I see another possible suspect
[10:20pm] sm14|lappy: I notice the flakes are not correctly stopping when they leave the viewport
[10:20pm] sm14|lappy: so, they make the window grow and grow
[10:20pm] scrollbars continuously extending
[10:20pm] sm14|lappy: that constant updating could be the issue

[10:26pm] hm. going to have to fire up firebug on this one...
[10:26pm] like you said earlier, must be a different JS setting for each browser used
[10:27pm] ...with the FF one being the one set in such a way, FF dislikes
[10:27pm] well. screenX of -4 is definitely a bug in the storm script
[10:27pm] on my monitor it should be 1264

Seams to be related to snowstorm.js, and The Mecca will experience the same issues.

Edited by stanmarsh14, 17 December 2009 - 10:04 PM.

[Matty.N]

it is snow.js

disabled it with adblock plus & after a restar no snow ;D

[roderz]

it is snow.js

disabled it with adblock plus & after a restar no snow ;D

Now you just need to get rid of the busses

[Geddy]

Now you just need to get rid of the busses

Ahhhh poor CC. That is easy getting rid of them though if you are in Firefox.

[Matty.N]

Now you just need to get rid of the busses

right click > block image

sorry zoltar