New Inno3D ad causes excessive CPU utilization

[stncttr908]

These flash ads use ridiculous amounts of CPU power when visible.

Let's have a look with the ads displayed:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=16619&stc=1&d=1141696550

That's 79% CPU usage by Firefox.

How about with the flash ads hidden from view?

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=16620&stc=1&d=1141696550

A mere 11%.

Now this isn't normally a big deal, but if I'm doing something CPU intensive and trying to browse the forums it causes a great deal of problems. I just wanted this to be brought to everyone's attention, since it's no doubt due to the poor optimization job done by the ad creator.

[superklye]

Use Adblock?

[CaptNKILL]

Yep I noticed it too. I had to adblock them because it was making pages crap out on me.

I dont know why some ads on some sites kill my system so bad... it doesnt make any sense.

[MUYA]

Unless you want to pay for the site or suggest a better alternative the flash adverts must stay ;)

[stncttr908]

Well that's the thing - I'd rather not block the adverts on such a fine site that I frequent so regularly.

Hopefully NVIDIA will release some new products so we can get different ads. :D

[saturnotaku]

I can barely browse this site from work now (Mac OS 9 with IE 5.17 :barf: ) because of those ads.

[Clay]

stncttr908, I'm just messing with you with this, couldn't resist :angel:

http://i2.tinypic.com/qxmdfq.jpg

[OWA]

Only about 20% with IE.

[SLippe]

You can also enable the Hosts file that comes with K-Lite v2.7 to block them.

[stncttr908]

stncttr908, I'm just messing with you with this, couldn't resist :angel:

http://i2.tinypic.com/qxmdfq.jpg
I don't get it. :D

For the record, it's the same 80% in IE. It's definitely the flash player's fault.

[OWA]

I'm not sure what flash version I have installed with IE but I haven't seen it go above 22%. It bounces between 16-22%. Actually, looking at the addons it's the activex flash8 control.

[jAkUp]

I'm gettin 42% on my secondary p4 rig, with Firefox, and Flash 8.

[Son Goku]

I hate flash ads period. They're more annoying then popups ever were. At least many of em popups didn't have all that fricken flash animation and what not...

I just use ad block plugin in Mozilla. Forget browsing many a site without it anymore...

Of course with all this CPU usage given flash ads, there is another side to consider. Anyone on the site who folds for team nVnews ;) If the thing is set to fold all the time (even when the comp is in use), the more CPU time taken to process these flash ads, is the less CPU time that's given to folding@home, to help rack up the credits :D

[superklye]

stncttr908, I'm just messing with you with this, couldn't resist :angel:

http://i2.tinypic.com/qxmdfq.jpg
Oh Jesus, Clay. I’m at work and I just saw this. Water came out of my nose. I sent the image around to my team and we’ve had to stop working for the last few minutes because no one can stop laughing.

[MikeC]

I notified Inno3D about the excessive CPU usage. In the meantime, I changed the flash quality to medium, which uses about 50% less of the CPU.

[rflair]

I noticed this yesterday, if i'm watching a video (I tried some h.264 and some divx files) and you open IE and come here to nvnews.net the combination of the flash ad which uses about 20% cpu on its own and WMP9 which uses about 15-25% cpu on its own would equal 35-45% cpu usage, but it goes to 60-80% cpu usage and the WMP9 video studders.

I had to go to adobe's page and download a flash remover, no more ads, 0% cpu usage on web pages.

To me its rediculous how much cpu power a couple small ads use.

[saturnotaku]

To me its rediculous how much cpu power a couple small ads use.

I wonder if the blame lies with Macromedia because Flash sucks, or the companies creating the ads who can't properly optimize them.

[superklye]

I wonder if the blame lies with Macromedia because Flash sucks, or the companies creating the ads who can't properly optimize them.
Flash rules! I blame companies that can't optimize.

[MikeC]

The banner has been replaced. The excessive CPU usage was the result of a flash (action script) error.

[Superfly]

nice one Mike - thanks for sorting that out.

[stncttr908]

Hey, I forgot about this thread.

Thanks for seeing to it, I love this place.

[j0j081]

Hmm I noticed that last week but thought it was the browser I was using having trouble, good fix.