Do Ico's Make The Dock Slower Instead Of Png's?

Do ico's make the dock slower instead of png's?

possible reason : file size more than 2 times the size of pngs

Is this true?

I used to use just ICOs, noticed the dock was pretty unresponsive/lagging, read somewhere here that PNGs were the way to go, converted to PNG and redid the dock, and ZAP, the thing has been greased lightning ever since.

(Y'z 0.83)

#77885

I try to use all PNGs as well, makes the dock faster and easier to preview the files when in thumbnail mode through Windows.

#77890

agree with ji eun, pngs sped my OD noticably (could be the placebo effect though )

#77892

Yes i noticed that with icons.

It has the same effect in Yz dock.

however in mobydock there is no difference between icons and pngs. (Y)

#77898

Fellas.i have a HUGE question....i have a laptop............(vaio,windows Xp.....cpu 1.7 ghz...128 Ram...etc,etc.....) and the Damm Yz Dock and Object Dock.......are so slow.......is there a way to fix this???????and wen im playinga a video....is so smooth.....and i don't know why ?????????? :rant:

#77901

God works in mysterious ways :smartass:

(sorry for not beeing very helpfull but always wanted to say that )

#77907

Press CTRL-ALT-DLT and open up the task manager so that you can see which processes are eating up your CPU cycles and post back.

#77909

Not sure why, but if I were you, I'd run straight out and spend a little bit of money doubling or trippling your RAM, I'd max it out if it's a laptop.

#77910

Now that Ji Eun mentions it, Windows XP needs a minimum of 256 MB of RAM I think, 512 to run it nicely.

#77912

Re: albertwesquer

My laptop is a PIII 933MHZ with only 256MB RAM and some ATI video, the Object Dock runs smoothly almost all the time unless I'm doing many things at once... I know this doesn't help, but its probably due to whatever else you're running

Now all I have to do is convert all those ICOs to speed it up even more

#77925

With an Athlon XP 2400 and 512 MB of RAM, the only time my ObjectDock lags is when I have iTunes running with the visualization, but they did a pretty bad job of converting that over to Windows.

#77934

Originally posted by albertwesquer@Nov 13 2003, 09:08 PM
Fellas.i have a HUGE question....i have a laptop............(vaio,windows Xp.....cpu 1.7 ghz...128 Ram...etc,etc.....) and the Damm Yz Dock and Object Dock.......are so slow.......is there a way to fix this???????and wen im playinga a video....is so smooth.....and i don't know why ?????????? :rant:

You've gotta add more RAM. As much as it can take.

/karp

#77996

More RAM is always good, I want to upgrade to 1 gig pretty soon.

#78130