Lappy Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 I'm really interested in the Dispersion skin however it's causing high CPU usage in both Chrome and Safari which is causing the scrolling of the demo site to be noticeably jagged. Is this a known issue or caused by a feature of the skin that can be disabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Hi Lappy, One member has reported this before, however it hasn't been an issue for anyone else so I believe it depends on the specifications of your computer/laptop. I believe the animated gradient background is the culprit, however it can be disabled quite easily if necessary. I'll be happy to provide instructions in the customer area if you decide to purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lappy Posted August 27, 2014 Author Share Posted August 27, 2014 Hey, I've done some additional checking, in Chrome the theme causes two "Google Chrome Helper" processes to go to 60-100% CPU, in Safari it causes the browser to go to 100% CPU, in Firefox it causes the browser to go to 30% CPU. I've had my friend check it too, he suffers the same issues; we both have the top model retina Macbook Pros with i7-4850HQ CPUs. If I disable javascript for the site it works perfectly so I think it might be due to the animated gradient running too often. I have purchased the theme now, would it be possible to to add a button alongside the grayscale/colour background button to toggle the animation? Edit: Just checked on my desktop running Chrome on Windows with a i7-3770K@4.6ghz, browsing to the demo site or my forums causes 3 processes for chrome to go to 20%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Strange, my Safari maxed out at 35% (roughly) and I'm on a retina macbook pro too. I'll write up a tutorial shortly for the customer area on how to disable the animation. The animated gradient is actually controlled via css which should utilise your GPU and run smoothly, so it might be the fixed/shrinking header which is causing the lag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Ehren Posted August 28, 2014 Solution Share Posted August 28, 2014 See if this works, if not I'll write up a tutorial on how to disable the shrinking header. http://www.ipbfocus.com/forums/topic/7176-dispersion-disable-animated-background/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lappy Posted August 28, 2014 Author Share Posted August 28, 2014 That does indeed seem to have fixed the high CPU usage, thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Great to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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