Thread: Something weird!

Hi

I'm seeing something weird, when I go to Stella's Tomb Raider web site the bulk of the page doesn't appear.



It's been this way ever since I've tried to access it in Windows 8.

Finally today I logged into Windows 7 just to see what happens there.

In Windows 7 it's fine.

I came back to Windows 8 and it's not!

I have no idea what would cause this to happen.

Mike

Not sure Mike. Seems to be working OK for me in both FireFox and IE10.
Try this link
Stella's Walkthroughs - Strategy Guides for Tomb Raider Underworld, Anniversary, Legend and the Classics.
try Ctrl + F5 a couple times.

I have the same picture as you, mike. Ditto with troubles link. I haven't yet tried it with 7

Results in Windows 8 Consumer Preview IE10.
I can only assume that it is displaying properly, as I have never visited there before a few minutes ago.

Ok, I just went to the web site and as I suspected, all you need to do is hold down your left control (Ctrl) key and roll your mouse scroll-wheel forward (away from you).
I just did this and with the scroll wheel, I was able to make the site go from 3" wide to off the screen (too large).

I do this with many sites to get rid of Side-Bars, etc.

That also works great to read Email that was written in a font that is too small to read.
Many people don't know about that little trick, so I set my default email font to 14 point BOLD.

Cheers mates!
The Doctor

Hi Guys

I tried it from troubles link and it worked, I tried it from the one in my history...

Stella's Tomb Raider Anniversary Walkthrough - Complete guide to all secrets, enemies, puzzles and hazards.

And it came out the same as before.

Well I'll save Troubles link.

Now I'll try what Dr Who suggested.

Mike

Hi again.

I tried Who's suggestion but zooming in and out on the page didn't make any difference.

What's weird is that prior to trying Troubles link I had tried to access it by running a search and selecting a link that way as well as using the one I have saved, over several days and none of them worked, but Troubles does.

Well, thanks for the link Trouble.

Mike

You're welcome.
I suspect it has something to do with cache / history, temp internet files and cookies more than anything else.

Does that mean you sorted the problem, Mike?
DrWho's suggestion, of course, only makes things bigger. But, if you haven't solved the problem, I would say Trouble is on the right track, but I would offer, fwiw, that it is the other way around. As Trouble said earlier, I am prepared to agree with him that the page is showing correctly - they may have changed the format since your last visit. But the reason it is showing correctly (?) in Windows 7, is because you are loading something in the cache, and not the true rendering. Only thing to try, in order to prove this, is to clear out your cookies, caches, temp file with something like Ccleaner.

I guess I didn't understand the problem. I just went back and expanded the picture again,
and the only thing I saw that was bad was that the site only takes up about 2/3 of the window's
width.
I brought that screen up from the web site and had a similar picture till I expanded it to
fill the screen.
What else were you looking for? Can you be more specific?

Doc