Making flash use up less processor time.

Question

http://www.adnet.hr/flash/VukovarNewGeneration.swf
Here I give you my .swf with words going in a spiral and
fading from black to red and back. It uses about 45% of my CPU
which wouldn't be so bad if it didn't have to run 24 hours a day. I
have let it run over the night and in the morning it was down :-/
I use a spiral which is a guide for one textbox (one letter)
and it is a dynamic textbox so I can fill it up at runtime. For
every letter I attach the movie clip with the guide and the textbox
one more time.
Should the letters be shapes instead of textboxes?
Or is just my videocard the narrow throat? Because the
processor is used less when it is run in a little window and not
full screen. (it is a fulscreen ".exe" file where I use it)
Where is the problem?

Answer 1

ok - quite simply - if you use embedded fonts in flash
animation - the processor will always slow down.
The best exercise would be to have 26 frames in a movie clip
- with each letter on each frame - not dynamic text - and label the
frames a-z - thn make your movieclip jump to the desired frame.
This should run much smoother.
Also - fullscreen with a poor graphics card will slow it
down.