What most affects Flash performance?

What components, hardware and software, affect Flash
performance the most?
I believe that video cards have no bearing, but have
recently come into a debate over the RAM vs processor.
Also, on Windows XP, any tricks to bring up performance
speed?
Thanks in advance,
michael

Do you mean in reference to authoring or the player?
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> What components, hardware and software, affect Flash
performance the most?
>
> I believe that video cards have no bearing, but have
recently come into a
> debate over the RAM vs processor.
>
> Also, on Windows XP, any tricks to bring up performance
speed?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> michael
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sam wrote:
Flash performance is dependent on the flash player and the video driver your computer uses. Flash player is generally slower in linux than in windows. This is probably due to adobe's priorities. Heck, for a long time linux only had flash 7 while windows had flash 9 and many sites used flash 8. It was a grim time in linux history... Having said that, the performance difference between windows and Linux versions should still allow for relatively smooth video animations, if it wasn't for the drivers.
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Listen,
I am a qualified technician, I have a GTX 560 Ti if you must know, I have provided support for PC Games in the past and help desk support to over 40,000 staff and experienced in QA of software.
If you read my post you would see, that I am talking about mutliple sites on multiple platforms with Flash causing problems over time, crashing my browsers, slowing down my systems and it's not just specific to the most recent update(s), which I have implemented.
If I try and use most games on Facebook, they really slow things down even more (and before you ask if I am running multiple games at once, no I am not, but my system can more than handle non flash applications in multiples.
My problem now is the way you are all trying to polish this over as if this my own system issue, this is much bigger than this.
What is normal flash content by the way ? Are you saying that applications on smart devices or facebook is not normal flash? because this issue is not limited to being specific, however when I have a flash game or a flash site in the background, my whole system starts to chug and it has always been that way no matter what update or system I am on more than 50% of the time.
If you want to blame developers for coding poor flash, then you should have a Flash certification program so people know which apps or websites are Adobe approved/certified to run smoothly.
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This most recent update, including being used with IE 9, Firefox 5 or the latest version of Safari is by no means an exception to the rule.
I should not have to troubleshoot so often my flash problems, this should have been done IN YOUR LABS properly, before being sent out to the public. I can of course choose not to use sites, not to have a playbook (which renders flash better than my PC funny enough, even though my PC is 10x as powerful)
You are trying to help and I am grateful for that, but I am putting this out there because I feel its very important to discuss further.

I branched this out to a new thread because it was off topic from the thread it was originally posted on (which was specific to IE9, 10.3 and Intel HD GPU's.)
I am a qualified technician, I have a GTX 560 Ti if you must know, I have provided support for PC Games in the past and help desk support to over 40,000 staff and experienced in QA of software.
As you know, there are an almost unlimited number of devices and drivers out there in the wild. We ask for the GPU hardware and driver details because the latest releases of Flash Player take advantage of them. To try and reproduce issues, we do our best to duplicate the environment that issues occurred on. We've also found that this information is critical to us reproducing the issue. Many times, older drivers/gpu's have bugs or don't support the hardware features we require for hardware acceleration. This can manifest itself in many different ways (black video, flashing graphics, crashes, etc.)
If you read my post you would see, that I am talking about mutliple sites on multiple platforms with Flash causing problems over time, crashing my browsers, slowing down my systems and it's not just specific to the most recent update(s), which I have implemented.
While I understand the frustration, it's difficult to approach this without specifics. If you run into a crash with Flash Player, please see this post for details on retrieving the crash log. We work constantly to improve the performance and quality of the player and we take customer reported issues with the highest priority. Maybe you could take some video of what you're experiencing so we could get a better reference to what's happening on your system.
If I try and use most games on Facebook, they really slow things down even more (and before you ask if I am running multiple games at once, no I am not, but my system can more than handle non flash applications in multiples.
Is there a particular game this occurs with? Does it happen right away? Is it only when there's heavy action on the screen? Again, video might help to understand what you're seeing.
My problem now is the way you are all trying to polish this over as if this my own system issue, this is much bigger than this.
I'd love to be able to reproduce this on my system, but I'm not being impacted like you are. I'm not trying to blame your system, I just need more info about what my system is missing that would allow me to experience what you are experiencing.
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khalid.mktaka76 wrote:
I intended to buy new mac pro, is it better to wait for new OS X moutain or can buy it now and update it later as it will not affect its performance???
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If you need a new machine now you'll have to get what you need obviously, but 10.8 should run on it just fine. However know that Apple tweaks things with more currently sellling hardware first, then later gets to the previous released models.
It's been my guestimation that your good for about two year old hardware with very recent OS X release, three years or older hardware you may want to reconsider sticking with the previous OS X version as your hardware is getting dated and likely has only a year left to go anyway (4 year average), so why bother mucking it up, slowing it down and having to buy all new/updated software and third party hardware because they won't make drivers for your new OS version?

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I have checked all of the help provided, and decided to come here before paying for a phone call I shouldn't have to make.
Every time I try to install the flash player (and only the flash player), a box appears at the top of the browser that says I have to install missing plugins. I have no other option, as nothing else comes up. Just that box. When I click on the install missing plugins box, it says it couldn't find any, and asks me to do it manually, so I do. Then it downloads something, and says it can't be found, so I have the option of browsing my computer (which I don't do, since I don't have anything that can fix it), or using the web to find the correct thing to open the file. When choose that, it says there isn't one in existence.
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Hi,
Is it true that the wmode transparent parameter affects the
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I've got a swf file which runs slow in the IE flash player
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wMode transparent is notoriously unpredictable, and as it
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smaller
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On 2006-05-02 08:29:46 -0400, "rudgr"
<[email protected]> said:
> Hi,
>
> Is it true that the wmode transparent parameter affects
the
> performance of the flash player?
>
> I've got a swf file which runs slow in the IE flash
player when wmode
> is transparent. The FF player doesn't seem to be
affected by the
> performance issue.
John Pattenden
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I've got a 1.25Ghz PPC G4 mini with 512mb running 10.4.11 that exhibits extremely poor Flash performance; jerky almost unwatchable video. I downgraded from Flash 10 to 9, and it only got slightly better, and most videos now require 10. I've heard the Flash drivers for Macs are awful; is this the problem?
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I think Boece has nailed it. Can you get more memory in your mini? I know it's a pain and the max quoted by Apple is only 1G, but I think a big part of your problem is just plain lack of memory. When the system does not have enough real memory to work with it will use virtual memory - use the hard drive as if it were memory. This really slows things down, especially when you have a hard drive that is way too full as yours is. You have very little ram to be running OS X and you've effectively blocked the system from the work around it wants to use to deal with this by having a hard drive so full. Add a resource hog like flash and the problem just gets worse. Every time I've added memory to a mac the page-outs have gone down and the system become more responsive. You have a lot of page outs. I've seen macs run all day and have zero - but that's with 4-6g ram. Still, the fewer the better. Here's a nice link to Apple's discussion of memory usage in OS X: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342?viewlocale=en_US
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My other Firefox browser, along with Google's newest Chrome browser and a newer version of the Safari browser for Windows, plus an older Internet Explorer 8, all WORK JUST FINE with the Flash Player 11.2.202.228 that I have installed on this computer and Google Chrome and Safari didn't even require having newer Flash Player plugins installed at all... they just see the Flash Player 11.2.202.228 plugin that I already have on this machine and they play all Flash content perfectly.
So can I just make this Tor-Firefox ESR 10.0.7 browser see the existing Flash Player 11.2.202.228 plugin that I already have on this machine?... and if so, how do I do that?
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You should actually be using Flash 10.3 (11.2 is insecure).[[Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox#w_solution-2-downgrade-flash|Solution 2: Downgrade Flash]].
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Greetings,
I can't tell what most apps in the store are without clicking on them. Please add mouse over info. It takes too long to click each one and go back over and over.
Than s

You're just talking to other users here. To communicate directly to Apple, use the [Apple feedback page|http://www.apple.com/feedback>.

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> He is using stopAllSounds to stop sounds that are in
seperate swfs on an html page. I tested it, and it does not work.
In my
> tests
> I put 3 swfs on an html page (not loaded into each
other). On the third swf I have the stopAllSounds command. It stops
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> The thing is I don't know if stopAllSounds ever worked
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> tralfaz
I have confirmed his complaint. stopAllSounds works correctly
across multiple swfs on an html page using Flash player 8 but not
with Flash Player 9.
Incidentally, there is another big "improvement" (they say)
that prevents you from uninstalling the Flash 9 player without
running
their uninstaller exe. Unfortunately, their uninstaller
uninstalls all flash player versions (not just version 9) from ALL
browsers
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