Odd graphical glitch here

On Chrome as usual. I'm occasionally seeing strange flashes here....the only way I can describe it is like a checkered background - like the way programs show transparent areas. It's very brief and then it goes.,

Also at times the animated gifs are not animating, they are static.

I only see it on this site, so wondered if some recent change has caused it - not sure how long it's been going on...at least a week I guess.

Just thought I would mention it.


Posted October 24, 2012, 15:32:53 PM	Logged

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Re: Odd graphical glitch here

I haven’t made any changes to the site for quite a while, but I do know Chrome has recently gone over to hardware acceleration, about 3 weeks ago I think.

I know Chrome has changed because all of a sudden when starting it up it was clocking my graphics card up to full speed, ATI Trey Tools was detecting it as a game, I have since made an Exclusion for Chrome in Trey Tools, it is at the top of the list in the attached image. FF and IE were hardware accelerated quite a while back and their exceptions are also on the list.

So my money is on a Chrome hardware acceleration issue, I’m not saying that chrome is to blame, it could be that I need to tweak the sites CSS file for the new Chrome.

It could also be a graphics card driver problem, might be worth up-dating to the latest driver for your card.

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Posted October 24, 2012, 16:50:11 PM	Logged

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Re: Odd graphical glitch here

I just checked on Crome on my laptop, Diesel's advatar working but Dusky's is not. not sure if that helps pinpoint who or what is causing it. I however am not getting any blockyness type flickering.


Posted October 24, 2012, 16:54:37 PM	Logged

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Re: Odd graphical glitch here

Been viewing the site in Chrome and I too have the problem with some gifs, for some reason they seem to stop every now and then, I found when I hovered over with the mouse they started animating again.

Not seeing the other odd effect that you have Freddy.

Strange one scratch-head


Posted October 24, 2012, 19:21:59 PM	Logged

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Re: Odd graphical glitch here

Others are having the same problem with Chrome and gif files on other sites, found this thread about it.

http://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-16579-post-286051.html


Posted October 24, 2012, 19:35:12 PM	Logged

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Re: Odd graphical glitch here

Yeah Chrome then, thanks for looking into it. I'm only seeing it here at the moment. Will keep an eye on it.


Posted October 24, 2012, 19:53:57 PM	Logged

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Re: Odd graphical glitch here

The glitch with animated .gif in Chrome:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=142096

Has nearly been fixed, looks like the problem was introduced in version 22 which 24 will correct. Version 23 is still the default for now but you can download the beta of 24 if you like:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/beta.html

I have downloaded it and the .gif files do seem to be all working as they should.