11/12/08 Poll - Can your computer handle Gaia Flash content?

Can your computer handle Gaia's Flash content?

No - my computer can't support Flash at all!	5.3%	[ 1420 ]
Sometimes - I can run some Flash components, but I cannot get Gaia Towns or some Flash games to work!	13.0%	[ 3480 ]
Mostly - I can run most Flash stuff, but zOMG gets slow or choppy!	36.3%	[ 9703 ]
Yes! I can support it all! I have no trouble running any Flash games or zOMG!	33.5%	[ 8970 ]
OOOHHH EEEEEE AHHHHH	11.9%	[ 3175 ]
Total Votes:			[ 26748 ]

[10binary-0]

Flash has never worked that well for me. It almost always crashes whatever browser I use.
I can watch youtube once in awhile but flash games are a pain.
Even towns caused a lot of trouble and zOMG is slower than you can imagine.
I managed to enjoy it a little bit but each screen takes 30 seconds just to load all the graphics.

Actually,runescape runs far faster and crashes less and it's in java!

[Uncle Jeff]

Aenakume

Flash works for me, but more than one flash window slows everything down.

Hear, hear!

Quote:

...do we really need 5-10 freaking Flash aquariums, cars and drivers licences on every damn page? It slows my computer down to a crawl, and it doesn't add anything worthwhile to Gaia - people's signatures have more character and personality than that crap. Seriously, do you really need Flash to make the drivers licences or the cars?!?!

i don't want to disable signatures, because that's the best place to see people's individuality. Cars, licences and aquariums don't really do anything for that, so i'd like to be able to turn off that crap so it doesn't bog down the forums. The games and towns, i don't mind.

I second the notion. Gratuitous flash in signatures is abusive.

With too many aquarium signatures, my Win98 machine doesn't just slow down; it crashes hard... forcing a HW reset. I can never predict which page of a forum might kill it, so I just don't do Gaia forums on that machine anymore.

[amberfire365]

I cannot get into Gaia towns and a few of the games.

[Xario1]

I voted no, even though, technically my wii has flash.
It just deosn't have the right flash player to do anything on this website, and that is a real problem, becuase I really like playing zomg

[Djaeno]

I can run the smaller Flash applications, but to run zOMG I can't multitask at all or things get really slow and choppy. Even when zOMG is the only game I'm running, it gets really slow when I go for things such as boss battles and there's multiple avatars and enemies moving all over the place.

[thrume]

Yeah, I feel bad for the people who still use dial-up... I mean as cool as the flash technology is, a lot of people still do use dial-up

[Metalic_Noodles]

Computer can, internet can not.

[qu0thraven]

I think that my computer can handle the flash fine, but I think we suffer from Lag sometimes.

[xyzyx88]

Takalis

My computer can handle most flash but not all of it all the time. gaia seems way too flash dependent now. I feel bad for those who still have 56k internet

my computer cant so ha

[ROBlN]

im on a 56k modem.

I cannot go into Rally rooms with more than 15 people. (too laggy)

zOMG is not playable. ( EPICz LAGz )

even the aquarium takes a while...

Being a website based "game" i think it should be more "dial-up" friendly.

I really want to be able to make private rooms on zOMG so its just me in the town (and the NPC's)... so i don't have to download everybody elses avatar/text/emoticons. Then it might be playable. xD

We have private rooms for Jigsaw etc; Why not zOMG?!?!?!

[Malenky Devotchka]

It's on and off.

If there was any way for zOMG to not be Flash, I'd be playing it. And it makes my laptop work a bit harder than normal or needed.

[MrCuddleCupcake]

Well im in the navy. and the computers on bored dont hav the newest flash so zOMG wont work. but some of the games do towns is slow as hell for me and aqaurime will work every now and then. it sucks T.T

[Kai Valentine-chan]

I chose the poll whore option because, yes, my computer can handle flash, but, no, if this will lead to more and more flash things on the site, I don't want it. I hate too much flash.

[Sea-Salt Ice Cream]

Flash itself runs fine....

It's my computer's connection that's the issue. Dial-up; fun fun. ._.
Not the fault of Gaia's staff, but if there was any way to make a "lite" version of some of the games that could run more smoothly on dial-up, I know I'd certainly appreciate it.

[Ukeire]

I can run just about everything on the site, including zOMG, but sometimes, when I'm doing several things at once on the site, the flash with cause my internet to crash.

Once it even crashed my entire computer gonk I was only on zOMG at the time.

Overall, I think flash shouldn't be as heavily relied on as it is. At least take down the aquariums from the signatures, or keep the Flash/Shockwave on 8 or 9 until a more positive feedback is possible. (I know, the fishies in the signature are awesome, but it's hard to load when there's about 3 or 5 per page.)

Well, that's just my opinion.