Computer slowdown with animated gifs...(problem [partially] solved)

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jobberd

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I run Windows XP on a Pentium 3 733 Mhz computer with 320 MB of ram (and a Radeon LE video card). Everytime i view a large animated gif in Internet Explorer (such as this one) the animation runs extremely choppy, and slows down everything else on the computer significantly. Does anyone know what the problem is?
Note: The problem is isolated to Internet Explorer; if I open the gif animation with another program such as ACDSee, it works completely fine with no slowdown
 
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Viper GTS

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What video card are you running?

Back when I had a Voodoo3 there were pages that would slow my system to a crawl while any other video card would run it just fine.

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GtPrOjEcTX

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<<

<< I forgot to add...

320MB RAM, WTF??

:) >>



256MB + 64MB

Do the math :) >>



Heh, I was about to post that response as well. Got 320mg in my sisters rig
 
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jobberd

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I have a Radeon LE 32 MB video card. I don't think this happened back when I was running Windows 2000 though...
 
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BornStar

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It runs fine for me after it loads.

PII 800
384MB PC133
Voodoo3 3500
WinXP
IE 6.0

edit: forgot some info
 
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jobberd

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Maybe its the Radeons? Vortex22 said it didn't work well on his computer and he has a Radeon on both of his rigs...
 
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Vortex22

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Could be, but that one gif is an isolated incident... I usually don't have slowdown problems like that.
 
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Sorry dude, runs fine here too:

1200 AMD T'Bird
Gig SDRAM
3D Prophet MX II
Mandrake 8.2
Opera Beta 6
 
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Interesting. I have the Radeon 64mb DDR and it slows things down as well. I had noticed this before, but only with certain animated gifs, not all of them. Most of the ones that did it had a lot of frames in them, like this one has 30 frames. Gifs with four or five frames don't usually do it.

I have 640mb of RAM and dual PIII 1Ghz processors. It doesn't seem to be memory related. My memory usage doesn't really spike but my processor usage will spike from it's normal 2% usage to 55% usage. I wonder why the Radeons would do this? Other than this I have never experienced any problems with the Radeon.
 
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Yep seems like a problem with radeons and ie because the gif opens fine in acdsee and opera
 
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<< Yep seems like a problem with radeons and ie because the gif opens fine in acdsee and opera >>



Yeah, I forgot to mention that it only does it when viewing the gif in IE. The animation plays just fine with no increased proc usage anywhere else.
 
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jobberd

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<< Could be, but that one gif is an isolated incident... I usually don't have slowdown problems like that. >>



<< I had noticed this before, but only with certain animated gifs, not all of them. Most of the ones that did it had a lot of frames in them, like this one has 30 frames. Gifs with four or five frames don't usually do it. >>

Yeah, same with me. Small gifs are no problem, but ones with many frames usually do slow everything down
 
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Has been posted on rage3d several times..most likely a bug with computer configurations(most commonly radeons) and internet explorer. I get 65-85% CPU Usage with IE, and about 0-3 with Opera. Using IE, right click on the giff, properties, then close..you'll notice cpu usage will then shoot back to 0. IE Bug.
 
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PsychoAndy

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instant and smooth here.

p3 733, 256 rdram 32 meg GF2, running win2k pro.

thats kinda sad considering some guys getting choppy views with newer vid cards
 
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