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wdwmagic

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WDWMAGIC is now in full Christmas Holidays mode!

If anyone is having problems running the animation on a slower machine, you can choose any style (from the selection box in the bottom left corner) other than Blue Daylight Widescreen Express, to return to the non-holiday banner.

Thanks, and Happy Holidays everyone!! :xmas:
 
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Atlantix2000

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It does look good, but I've had to turn it off. IE was using 99% of my CPU to animate the flash. It's funny to watch how it slows down when multiple windows are open. My machine is a PIII 600MHz which isn't THAT old! The no flash style only effects the forums though. Is there a way to turn it off on the main (news) page? I always look there first.

--A2K
 
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Atlantix2000 said:
It does look good, but I've had to turn it off. IE was using 99% of my CPU to animate the flash. It's funny to watch how it slows down when multiple windows are open. My machine is a PIII 600MHz which isn't THAT old! The no flash style only effects the forums though. Is there a way to turn it off on the main (news) page? I always look there first.

--A2K
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The PIII 600 was made October 1999 to July 2001, so thats over 5 years ago! In computing, that's a liftime! ;)
Sorry its running slow for you. I try to make things work as well as I can on older platforms, but I do have to strike a balance, and I do lean towards getting things to work best on machines that are 1 - 2 years old.

You could try right clicking on the flash, and selecting Quality, LOW. That will help a little. :)
 
Computer Magic

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wdwmagic said:
If anyone is having problems running the animation on a slower machine, you can choose any style (from the selection box in the bottom left corner) other than Blue Daylight Widescreen Express, to return to the non-holiday banner.

Thanks, and Happy Holidays everyone!! :xmas:
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that goes for those on dial-up...looks at Christy :lookaroun
 
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Computer Magic said:
that goes for those on dial-up...looks at Christy :lookaroun
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It shouldnt really make any difference what speed your connection is. The new banner isnt any bigger in terms of data size. The poeple who are affected will be those with slower CPUs in their PC, as the processing of the snow is a little processor intensive.
 
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wdwmagic said:
The PIII 600 was made October 1999 to July 2001, so thats over 5 years ago! In computing, that's a liftime! ;)
Sorry its running slow for you. I try to make things work as well as I can on older platforms, but I do have to strike a balance, and I do lean towards getting things to work best on machines that are 1 - 2 years old.

You could try right clicking on the flash, and selecting Quality, LOW. That will help a little. :)
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Did you ever get round to trying out the removal of
Code: 
 wmode="transparent"
from the flash embed, as last time I tried a testcase it gave a large performance boost to Firefox users at least? :)
 
Computer Magic

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wdwmagic said:
It shouldnt really make any difference what speed your connection is. The new banner isnt any bigger in terms of data size. The poeple who are affected will be those with slower CPUs in their PC, as the processing of the snow is a little processor intensive.
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:sohappy: :sohappy: Even the dial up folks can enjoy the holiday spirits
 
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MouseMadness

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God bless us, every one :eek:

:lol:

Even if it was slower, I would still keep it. It's too pretty. :) Besides, it's not like I have anything better to do. :wave: :lookaroun
 
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Atlantix2000

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wdwmagic said:
The PIII 600 was made October 1999 to July 2001, so thats over 5 years ago! In computing, that's a liftime! ;)

You could try right clicking on the flash, and selecting Quality, LOW. That will help a little. :)
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So...could you tell my boss I need a new computer? I'd much appreciate it!

The tip on setting the quality to low sort of helps. The snow falls really fast now and the computer is still between 97-99% CPU usage but seems much more responsive. My home machine (1.2GHz AMD) is exactly the same.

I've never worked with Flash but as a computer programmer, I have a couple questions/suggestions:
Is Flash animation done by writing code to calculate the snowfall or is it just cycling images as fast as it can?
In either case, is there a delay function that can be put between frames to release processing power to the computer?
Finally, if it is calculating the animation, does it have to recalculate it every time or is there a way to store the results so once the sequence starts over it just remembers what it did?

--A2K
 

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