Slides have very low fps and laggy input for first few slides.

Question

We are creating a project in captivate that is 50 slides long. The first 4 or so slides are very laggy and are very slow to respond. They have flash animations and they do not play at the full 24fps. After awhile (usually by the 6th or 7th slide, the lag stops and the animations start playing at 24fps, although they often pause in the middle of the animation).The first few slides do not lag if you manually jump to the first slide once the project has got up to full speed. 
We are using flash animations, custom widgets that are modified versions of the "Flash Button" widget that comes with captivate, and text to speech audio on almost every slide. We are running the project locally, from the hard drive. The problem seems to happen only when there are button widgets (custom or the default Button.swf) on any slide. It goes away once they widgets are removed. The problem seems to still exist, but load faster when there are less slides in the project. I'm wondering if it has something to do with loading the button widgets, as it eventually goes away, like they are done being cached or something.

Answer 1

Hi
Can you tell me which version of CAPTIVATE and OS you are using? and provide me the screenshots of SWF SIZE AND QUALITY under PROJECTS in PREFERENCES