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[Crazy Jay]

Avery I think I know whats wrong.

Laserglows banner there has a few high rez pictures of goggles. Whenever I use pictures in flash it always uses more resources compared to just generated effects.

 

[Toke]

thx for the feedback im sending this over to laserglow again.

question toke, does the ad still lag just as much when u view it directly by going here:

http://www.laserglow.com/banner/banner.swf

Yes, as soon as I click permit in the new tab the fan revs up to high, the little bar goes half blue, and reaction speed drops to several seconds.

 

[HIMNL9]

c0ld, if this can help you, i made the same test ..... i marked in red the points corresponding at the moment where i clicked on "permit laserglow" on noscript ..... there is an increment, but not at 100%, at least on my machine ..... here it's like, from 10 to 50 % .....

 

[c0ldshadow]

thx for the feedback and testing laserglow has been asked to change the ad ASAP

 

[Things]

I don't seem to be having any problems, and I'm on an eepc running windows 7.

Sounds like you guys have flash issues

Do you both run 64bit? Could be that maybe ...

I've got 2 tabs open in Chrome on LPF, and I'm only seeing about 8% CPU usage.

 

[c0ldshadow]

yeah i use chrome as well and no issues (also tested in IE and FF tho)

 

[HIMNL9]

Things, if you mean me, i'm using FF on a q6600 with 3Gb of ram, running XP pro 32 bit .....

But i don't have these problems, cause ads are all blocked on my machine ..... i just tested it for see if there was an increment, opening directly the link that c0ld posted, and then temporarily permitting laserglow in the noscript plugin .....

 

[Things]

I don't bother trying to block ads, it always ends up breaking features on websites that you want, like Youtube.

 

[HIMNL9]

Then we have different ideas, about surfing internet (as is just normal )

For me, other than the fact that my line is usually so slow that, if i left all the pages load all that what they want, i end "crawling internet", instead "surfing internet" p), also i have the insane idea that, on my PC, i decide what to do or not, and not a third part page creator ..... so, for me, is almost automatic that, when i meet a site that don't left me surf it if i reject to load a bunch of crappy commercial ads and undefined scripts, it have 99,9% of possibility to end in my personal "sites blacklist"

And my youtube don't load ads

BTW, all the so-called "social networks", in fact, are permanently and definitively in my "blacklist" by default (in the HOSTS file, being more precise :crackup

 

[Bionic-Badger]

I remember visiting The Inquirer site, and seeing not just one, but THREE Flash ads for the exact same product. It brought Firefox to its knees on a multi-core system. I think the problem manifested itself when there were two or more Flash objects in a page. It might have to do with a poor plugin, or plugin support in Firefox.

As a test, can you see if blocking the other Flash ads on this site (Dinodirect's) fixes the problem as well?

 

[Toke]

... As a test, can you see if blocking the other Flash ads on this site (Dinodirect's) fixes the problem as well?

It is only the Laserglow one that gives me problems.
Perhaps the 120kb v.s. 21kb makes the difference?

 

[Bionic-Badger]

Hmm, anyone have a copy of the old SWF? I'd like to see what it was trying to do. The current ad just scroll-tweens images and that's it.

Edit:

I tried visiting the site via a remote connection to a Linux box, and it only reports up to 12% CPU usage (Intel Q6600) max. The FreeNX server usually uses more. I haven't updated that plugin for a while on there. Maybe it's a plugin issue.

 

[Justin]

I've made some changes to the banner ad file to reduce CPU usage even more. Can you guys try to update your browser and flash player to the most recent versions and try again? Let me know your results. I cannot reproduce the problem on any machine, but I'd like to know for future ads if there is some particular Flash effect that causes these problems.

Our previous Flash ads just had alpha-tweening effects but this one does a scroll and an alpha at the same time. It's pretty basic but maybe a particular combination of hardware and software is causing poor performance.

 

[Toke]

It makes not noticeable difference for me.
But then again, this is not my only graphics problem and I am blaming Nvidia for not having linux support for older laptop cards.

Thanks for the effort.

 

[Bionic-Badger]

Hey Justin, I decompiled the SWF and rebuilt it. It uses a higher FPS so it's smoother, has cropped images so it's smaller, uses actual text rather than outlines, and the background transitions are more varied. Can you see if the attached version improves anything? I've also provided the FLA in case you're concerned about any security problems.

 

[Justin]

Thanks for your help! However, when I open the SWF there is no text, just the logo and background images. Am I missing something?

I do like the higher FPS though. I was just using the default setting.