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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: oohal on January 19, 2005, 12:32:05 am

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: oohal on January 19, 2005, 12:32:05 am

(http://gamesss.freeserverhost.net/cheese/aaa.JPG)

note the page file useage this happens when ever i go into the  freespace "effects" folder

any ideas why?

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: RangerKarl on January 19, 2005, 12:33:31 am

Can't see anything, but mebbe it's because the folder view option's set to thumbnails or something?

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: oohal on January 19, 2005, 12:55:58 am

nope i don't have it viewing as thumbnails

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: Knight Templar on January 19, 2005, 12:56:54 am

Gen. Freepsace this belongs in thinks me.

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: Thorn on January 19, 2005, 01:32:33 am

Details view might do it too if its set to display a lot of information on the files. My music folder can grind my machine to a halt if I tell it to display info about the song, because it has to parse the header and ID3 tag of EVERY file in the folder.

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: Black Wolf on January 19, 2005, 04:05:52 am

Wow. I get the same thing - I just assumed it was the fault of my badly-in-need-of-a-reformat PC. Apparently not. Weird bug though.

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: oohal on January 19, 2005, 05:32:26 am

KT: it might belong there but i couldn't work out what fourm to put in in

Thorn: nope not that it isn't halthing the comp it just consumes all avaliable memory and then uses a crap load of my HD as virtual ram

my current theory is that it's somthing todo with the fact that windos thinks .ani files are animated cursors

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: Grug on January 19, 2005, 06:54:29 am

Yeah I've got the same issue. I opened the effects folder up and it nearly freezes up at times... :S

My computer is in need of a defrag and or format anyway but this still irritates me especially considering that's the place I spend most of my time...

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: Fury on January 19, 2005, 08:02:05 am

This happens if you have an image viewer associated to view the .ani files. Only associate Descent Manager's aniview tool to view .ani files.
Happens with Irfanview at least.

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: IceFire on January 19, 2005, 08:40:43 am

I've got the same problem...didn't used to.  After SP1 installation it started happening.

Title: i hate the effects folder
Post by: Fury on January 19, 2005, 09:43:13 am

Windows 2000 does not have the problem either. Just make sure you don't have ANY software associated to view .ani files, except aniview.