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Whould anyone at least tell me what's going on with that ad - workstation is basically locked while that thing in on. :mad:
Thank you.
I spent twenty minutes last night right-clicking on it and hoping to set it to some draft mode or turn it off - but it kept coming back with full-motion-high-resolution-eat-your-CPU ;)
I hopelessly tried the same thing. Thanks for confirming that.
It nails me too. I just recently switched to cablemodem, but even on dialup it would eat 100% of my (meager) cpu, so it has nothing to do with bandwidth.
It's been a problem for months now, and it's annoying as all get-out.
Same thing happened few months ago.
Probably some poor loop logic by the designers.
Exactly right! I am on T1 (!) here and hopeless. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ellis Dee
Next time you hit this ad and it eats your cpu, capture the source code of the page and email it to me at Webmaster at this site's domain name. I can then send this to our ad people and they will know specifically which ad it is and be able to pulverize it -- or at least get the ad agency to fix it.
Brad!
Thanks a lot Brad. Will certainly do that.
I got the volcano ad. It didn't seem to take over my CPU (image included). Is it just the fly swatter version that does?
Brad!
Interesting... I submitted the source file so I wonder if guys received it?
Would it matter of it's a multi cpu machine or single cpu?
no. Generally when an ad pulls the full CPU on a single processor machine, it will pull at least 50% on a dual core - which is still a lot of drain ;)
What I noticed is that I saw a volcano version of the ad. Your image is a fly swatter version. This has been reported back to the agency (is at least I was told it is being reported, so it will be if it hasn't already). I mentioned the fly swatter version as being what was reported.
Brad!
It is the fly swatter one...I just got it now - image and SOURCE attached...
Yea, that's basically how I thought it would be. Thanks Brad for confirming that.Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
I will go ahead and mark this thread as resolved.
Did they fix it? I just got hit with the flyswatter ad 10 times in a row, but it didn't seem to pin my cpu.
Of course, now the Halo-ripoff Microsoft Visual Studio ad is taking 100% of my cpu every time it plays...
It did mine... :) And didn't see the ad - I heard the noise. Browser was minimized at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ellis Dee
If its still happening you guys should also note the flas version plugin your browser is running too.
I don't know how to ask convincingly but can you please take care of this monster?
Thank you.
heh, the fly-swatter one is my favorite now when it comes to pinning the cpu. That Visual Studio ad that looks like Halo is way, way worse for my slow computer.