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Lightweight viewer for /hr/ pics? Anonymous
Hi guys.

Hey, I need an image viewer that doesn't hang when I'm checking /hr/ pics. Normally the ones I use work alright with all of my non-hr pics (and some hr too), but if the image is (not really) too big, they hang most of the time. Currently I'm using Irfanview and ACDSee 8.0, but sadly whenever I check a hi-res folder I have to switch to the default Windows XP viewer because of this issue.

(Oh, I forgot. Celeron 2.53 GHz 512MB RAM. Yeah, I know it should have more RAM, but it shouldn't hang that often even with that much)
>> Anonymous
acdsee 3.x is the shit. all others fail for program bloat.
>> boon
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i use xnview, it replaced my irfanview and the only thing i sorta miss between them is irfan is faster in full screen viewing and the plugin for pngcrush. other than that, xnview is nearly on par but with better thumbnail support over irfanview.
i also like it because it does store thumbs.dll file but in 1 folder in the program's root. since i have a ton of images, i put the thumbnail on really low quality and thats why the thumbs look gritty.

also with animated gifs, irfanview has a habit of not showing the correct animation speed sometimes. xnview just has problems showing some animated gifs period.
>> Anonymous
I use qiv, along with some scripts that generate text files of image lists for it to read from my metadata system.
>> Not The OP
XnView looks interesting, but is it better to use that ACDSee 3.1 (my current)? Are there any key features that one has over the other?
>> Anonymous
I just make all image files from explorer load in new firefox tabs... never had any problems with huge pics and my pc isn't that good.
>> boon
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>>81385
i've used acdsee 7.0 and i only like the duplicate finder in it. i've tried using it as a main thumbnail viewer and it has an issue about some images. i have no clue what it is but while building thumbnails for some certain images i have would make it crash every single time on the same image.
i personlly like xnview, its good stuff and it loads considerably faster than acdsee if you use it as your main image viewer.
>> Anonymous
>>81385
No, trust the tools from the past. ACDSee 3.0 here ;)
>> Anonymous
Under Windows I use XnView too - very good tool (though I never tried acdsee). Under Linux I use Gwenview (excellent when it comes to scaling pictures, especially huge gifs).
>> Anonymous
I use acdsee 5. I tried and hated acdsee 6.

5 works pretty well for me and hit has a ton of options. It's especially good for reading manga, with it's slide show option (can also read zipped files). It reads almost every image format I throw at it. Also has a nifty batch rename, and duplicate finder
>> Anonymous
>>81413
Could you be so kind to post that pic? :)
>> Anonymous
I use ACDSee32 2.4. It's the fastest version up to date. I could never use 3.0 and up because they got slower.
>> Zothique !5kL7bwCrGk
I've been using Picasa2 on a Linux platform, and use GQview for detecting duplicate images. Konqueror is fairly good at displaying thumbnails in an hurry.
>> Anonymous
if anyone knows of something good for mac, that would be cool - irfanview works fine for me in win32 because my computer is fuckfast, but on mac irfanview does not run.
>> Anonymous
i use acdsee classic(2.4) however the image libs for them are kinda buggy so the trick is to dl acdsee8 ro so and copy the new image libs into the old install, they work great.
>> boon
>>81430
i dont really wanna repost so you can go get it yourself at moe.imouto.org
the huge louise is there too.
>> Anonymous
I use ACDSee 5, I had the same lag problem with later versions, then /r/ helped me by suggesting acdsee 2.3 to 5. I have tried tried acdsee 2.3 (or was it 2.4), and I found it was fast but it was too crude. Interface looks crap, crashes when opens corrupted images, and zooming in is fuked. Then I upgraded to version 5 and it was all good. I have tried irfanview, but i just couldn't adapt to their browsing shortcuts. I like to use my mousewheel to shuffle through images not move it.
>> Anonymous
http://www.irfanview.com/

Used this for years and years and years... super lightweight and it has a lot of features!