does anyone else get *very* slow scrolling in pictures threads?

it slows to a standstill. terrible terrible scrolling performance. using chrome on win 7.

ive got SLI nvidia cards and gigatonnes of memory. how hard can it be to scroll a forum thread properly?

fwp i know, but damn. anyone know what could be up?

Gearslutz gear porn slutty setup picture thread doesnt have this problem for me.

if everyone has the same problem i'll just get along with it. if its just me i need help..?

Are you on a specific page? there are certain types of gifs that slow down any computer regardless of their performance. I've got 32gb ram, 2 gtx690 video cards, etcetecetcetc and they still slow down my computer lol.

even this page is clunky :/

gearslutz has a 20-30 fps smoothness in its scrolling and watmm has about 3-5 fps smoothness :/

Hmm, that I don't quite understand. There's no reason for that.

Hopefully someone can chime in with some actual knowledge =/

so you have nice smooth-scrolling watmms?

yeah for sure. smoother than a baby's asscheeks.

i want them asscheeks!

i changed theme and is now better... my pc doesnt like syro..? must edumacate it

There was a page in the funny pictures thread that killed mine but usually it's all good.

yeah, same. I think is the new gif formats + chrome that don't really mix

It's Chrome and gifv compatibility I think (although it only seems to be embedded gifvs because opening them in a new tab of their own seems to be fine). No more cute pictures thread for me until Google sort their shit out :(

Like I said, greyblue theme is ok, just not Brown syro theme - maybe try that

Aye I've definitely had performance issues with any of the pictured themes (tomorrow's harvest etc.) so have always stuck with the classic theme. Stopped the annoying flashing every time it'd load another page too (a brief frame or two where the background seemed to have to reload again)

think joyrex set it up so images only load when you scroll down rather than preloading / caching

in theory it would make page loads quicker but instead it means i have to fucking scroll down to look at photos which slows my browser down

or summin

I think it's skin-related more than anything else - both the Tomorrow's Harvest and SYRO skins use a fixed background image which is known to cause choppy scrolling on some browsers.

Changing skin was the first thing I did, doesn't solve the issue for me. It's not just on WATMM either it's elsewhere too. It's gifvs and Chrome. Fuck gifvs.

Even if I do a Google image search for 'gifv' and expand an image so it starts playing while it's still embedded in the image search page everything grinds to a halt. Open the image in it's own tab without it being embedded and it's fine.

Yeah it's the gifv files with chrome. There were 2 or 3 pages in the Funny Pictures thread that almost would not load at all. Felt like I was in 1998 again.