Interactivity slowing down

Question

Hey, everyone,
I've run into a bit of a problem. I'm making eight card games, all with the same interactivity. The cards shuffle, I can flip them, and I can drag them. After I completed the first one, I made the second one simply by changing the words on the cards and the colors. I did the same for the third. The problem now is that my cards in each successive game are flipping slower and slower. They are supposed to show the other side immediately when clicked on (no fancy animation). In the first game, the car flips almost immediately. In the second game, it takes a moment. In the third, it takes several seconds! Beyond that, the click and drag function also gets choppy in the following games.
Does anybody know what might be causing this? It seems like my code is lagging in its functionality in the second and third games, and I don't know why. I have an a seperate .fla and .as file for each game. I also have some code embedded in the first frame of the .fla telling a button on the welcome screen to function. Here's my code for the third game I created. Thanks in advance for your help!
doubletimeA.as
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
public class doubletimeA extends MovieClip {
  // game constants
  private static const boardWidth:uint = 7;
  private static const boardHeight:uint = 7;
  private static const boardOffsetX:Number = 120;
  private static const boardOffsetY:Number = 45;
  private var firstCard:Card;
  private var secondCard:Card;
  public function doubletimeA():void {
   // make a list of card numbers
   var cardlist:Array = new Array();
   for(var i:uint=0;i<boardWidth*boardHeight;i++) {
    cardlist.push(i);
   // create all the cards, position them, and assign a randomcard face to each
   for(var x:uint=0;x<boardWidth;x++) { // horizontal
    for(var y:uint=0;y<boardHeight;y++) { // vertical
     var c:Card = new Card(); // copy the movie clip
     c.stop(); // stop on first frame
     var r:uint = Math.floor(Math.random()*cardlist.length); // get a random face
     c.cardface = cardlist[r]; // assign face to card
     cardlist.splice(r,1); // remove face from list
     c.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,clickCard); // have it listen for clicks
     addChild(c); // show the card
   // This function is called when the mouse button is pressed.
   function startDragging(event:MouseEvent):void
        event.currentTarget.startDrag();
    // This function is called when the mouse button is released.
    function stopDragging(event:MouseEvent):void
       event.currentTarget.stopDrag();
   c.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, startDragging);
   c.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, stopDragging);
  // player clicked on a card
  public function clickCard(event:MouseEvent) {
   var thisCard:Card = (event.target as Card); // what card?
    firstCard = thisCard; // note it
    firstCard.gotoAndStop(thisCard.cardface+2); // turn it over
doubletimeA.fla (first frame code)
stop();
function buttonClick(myevent:MouseEvent): void
  gotoAndStop(2);
btn_start.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,buttonClick);

Answer 1

Hi stupid rasa,
I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues with your MacBook Pro. It sounds like you have been on the right track in your troubleshooting. If you are having intermittent but persistent issues with your Mac slowing down over time, with temporary relief after a restart, you may find the following articles helpful.
In addition to CPU activity, you may want to check the Memory Pressure in Activity Monitor when your machine is slowing down, as noted here:
How to use Activity Monitor - Apple Support
You may also want to check your available disk space and see if your hard drive is largely full (<10% or so available), which can also greatly affect system speed & responsiveness:
To find out how much disk space you have, open Disk Utility, click your disk (usually named Macintosh HD), then click Info.
OS X Mavericks: Increase disk space
Regards,
- Brenden