Snow for the holidays! - Page 8

kaz8772 · #71 (**permalink**) 12-23-2009, 01:59 AM

Just go to the bottom of the page on the left and change the screen mode with the Quick Style Chooser. Set mine to PPCG Wide Basic and they are gone and no more lag.

niteriderxp · #72 (**permalink**) 12-23-2009, 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lipidfats

hahaha 99%???
i'm glad i went for the extra gig of RAM a few years ago...

How exactly do you expect extra memory to help a purely computational task.

Here is the script simplified:
1. Generate a whole bunch of random numbers
2. Multiply random numbers by resolution to obtain random pixel positions
3. Add the current pixel's y position to a randomly generated fall rate (makes snow go down)
4. Add the current pixel's x position to output of cosine function (makes snow sway)
5. Draw pixels
6. GOTO 3.

The only thing being stored here is the current pixel positions, everything is being calculated several times a second.

Though, why it slows things down probably has more to do with how inefficiently the browser retrieves/modifies html objects rather than the calculations.

bastian74 · #73 (**permalink**) 12-23-2009, 02:23 AM

These snowflakes are using the same amount of CPU as farcry, for crying out loud.
My proc is a dual core amd opteron, video is nvidia 7800GT

PPC Wide Basic quick theme worked perfectly. Thank you, my CPU fan can take a break now.

rafyrod · #74 (**permalink**) 12-23-2009, 02:24 AM

oh no it burn my mobo, and my i7 !

i guess the power of the snow is no match to my pc ... geez

**MordyT** · #75 (**permalink**) 12-23-2009, 02:26 AM

Oh my god. Another thread on this? For the sixth time today alone? No way!

Oh, one more thing.

or merge or whatever happens to this...

rushco · #76 (**permalink**) 12-23-2009, 03:10 AM

I posted about this. It seems to be a yearly thing always around this time of the year. Just go to the bottom left and change the theme to PPCG Wide.

**dwizzy130** · #77 (**permalink**) 12-23-2009, 04:34 AM

Turn off Javascript. Not that hard. dwizzy130

PdaOd · #78 (**permalink**) 12-23-2009, 04:44 AM

A js loop repositioning 100 objects can keep the CPU busy, especially on a PPC. The theme change worked so, like many things, there is a workaround - at least until there is warmer weather.

boobman · #79 (**permalink**) 12-23-2009, 04:51 AM

I just logged in to post this very same thing. C2D and 4GB or ram... left a snowflake tab open allday and my pc is dropping to standstill. closed the ppcgeeks tab and watched my maxed out cored drop to 0% usage. Its for sure a bug in firefox but plz turn them off.

edit:lol didnt think of this myself thx poster.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...6&postcount=12

**Sim-X** · #80 (**permalink**) 12-23-2009, 09:21 AM

at least I wasn't the only one having issues - need to take it easy on my old work machine