[oohal]

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

any ideas why?

[RangerKarl]

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

[oohal]

nope i don't have it viewing as thumbnails

[Knight Templar]

Gen. Freepsace this belongs in thinks me.

[Thorn]

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.

[Black Wolf]

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.

[oohal]

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

[Grug]

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...

[Fury]

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.

[IceFire]

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

[Fury]

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