Flasing banner causes 100% cpu???

Jester · Post by **Jester** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 12:03 am

Check out this banner that is located at the top of http://www.wcfords.com ...it will be the banner that says "Get your free WCFord sticker today!", if you don't see that hit reload until you do.

Ok, my system does the weirdest thing. When viewing this banner, my cpu usage will spike up to 100% when the banner flashes when "today" appears. Any ideas why? I've tried a whole bunch of ATI drivers and Omega drivers, I reinstalled Win2k yesterday and tried with the default IE 5.0, then tried IE 5.5, and now 6.0 and still no dice. None of my friends have this problem and they all have non-ATI cards so this leads me to believe that it's a ATI driver problem. Anyone else having this problem and know a fix? If you have a Radeon and Win2k or XP watch your CPU usage as the banner flashes, does it go up at all?

FuNPoLiCe001 · Post by **FuNPoLiCe001** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 12:40 am

i m running a radeon AIW on win xp pro, and i dont get that problem

it goes up higher yes, but not 100

i get around 45%

i am running a tb 900 on an Asus A7V w/ 512 megs of RAM

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 8:09 am

Must be an Athlon and/or ATI thing. There's NO reason why that animation should use that much CPU power.

It doesn't here 1% usage (P3-1000, GF3 Ti-200, 512Mb, Win2K)

poop · Post by **poop** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 9:05 am

I get around 1% or less...

P!!!-733
256 MB RAM
GeForce DDR
Win XP Pro

Jester · Post by **Jester** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 11:51 am

I'm guessing it's probably another stupid ATI driver bug....arg!!!

I'm really starting to hate ATI!

UPDATE:

I posted this at a few sites and so far everyone with a Radeon exhibits the same problem. Almost all of them are running T-birds but I finally found someone with a P3-866 that got the exact same problem so yes as I thought, IT"S AN ATI PROBELM! Here's the threads if you're interested, I'll definitely be telling ATI about this:

Rage3d: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread. ... d=33593660

BannadTech: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... did=650941

Kakarot · Post by **Kakarot** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 11:57 am

Mine stays at 0%... running a tbird 750 w/ Nvidia TNT2 pro 128mb ram win2k pro. This is my work computer. I'll try it at home tonight... I'm using a ati radeon 8500 there in a tbird setup.

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 12:04 pm

I get up to 40% or so in IE ... around 15% max in Mozilla

TB@1570, Radeon 64VIVO, Win2k