MAJOR MAJOR ISSUE - HP-Intel ad - 100% CPU !!!

[RhinoBull]

Here is the image...

[RhinoBull]

Whould anyone at least tell me what's going on with that ad - workstation is basically locked while that thing in on.

Thank you.

[szlamany]

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

[RhinoBull]

I hopelessly tried the same thing. Thanks for confirming that.

[Ellis Dee]

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.

[TheBigB]

Same thing happened few months ago.
Probably some poor loop logic by the designers.

[RhinoBull]

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.

Exactly right! I am on T1 (!) here and hopeless.

[brad jones]

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!

[RhinoBull]

Thanks a lot Brad. Will certainly do that.

[brad jones]

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!

[RhinoBull]

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?

[brad jones]

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!

[szlamany]

It is the fly swatter one...I just got it now - image and SOURCE attached...

[RhinoBull]

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

Yea, that's basically how I thought it would be. Thanks Brad for confirming that.
I will go ahead and mark this thread as resolved.

[Ellis Dee]

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...

[RhinoBull]

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...

It did mine... And didn't see the ad - I heard the noise. Browser was minimized at the moment.

[RobDog888]

If its still happening you guys should also note the flas version plugin your browser is running too.

[RhinoBull]

I don't know how to ask convincingly but can you please take care of this monster?

Thank you.

[Ellis Dee]

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.