sys32 Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Is there any way to improve the performance of the flash plugin on OS X? It's just awful. It's so choppy and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted January 23, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 23, 2004 Well, the key thing I've found is to keep it in the foreground. As soon as you switch to another app, it chugs. However, I don't think it's too bad. My iBook G3 900 handles it just fine. Maybe you should drop the render resolution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Well, of course my G5 does fine, but only when it's in the foreground. It slows down in the background, but that's for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac15 Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Are you using the latest version of flash. It runs fine for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pigsweeeper Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 ran ****ty on my pIII 450mhz but runs fine on my pIV 2.6 ... maybe you dont have enough ram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 ran ****ty on my pIII 450mhz but runs fine on my pIV 2.6 ... maybe you dont have enough ram? Gee, I didn't know OS X ran on pIII's or p4's. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebaz Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 i think people just click on a thread - reply and don't even know where they are replying in.... about flash.. the new versions perform better than the older versions, however they are not to par with their PC counterparts. Macromedia cant code for crap anything in mac....sadly all apps are slow (dreamweaver, flash mx pro) . But they are the best in what they do..so u get used to it lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 i think people just click on a thread - reply and don't even know where they are replying in.... Yeah, but "in OS X" is part of the thread title, you would think they would have at least read that part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icyorange Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Hmm... this is a bit worrying. I'll be moving to a Mac in a few weeks (probably an iBook or PowerBook) and I do quite a lot of development in Flash. Is it slow in developing, as well as just playing back Flash files? Would there be much difference in a 800mhz iBook G4 and 1ghz PB in terms of Flash performance - like would the extra cache in the PB help? Cheers, Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nummi Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Hmm... this is a bit worrying. I'll be moving to a Mac in a few weeks (probably an iBook or PowerBook) and I do quite a lot of development in Flash. Is it slow in developing, as well as just playing back Flash files? Would there be much difference in a 800mhz iBook G4 and 1ghz PB in terms of Flash performance - like would the extra cache in the PB help?Cheers, Nick I have a 1.25Ghz Powerbook, and Flash playing in the browser is not bad at all. Not up to speed with faster PCs, but that is probably Macromedia's fault. I don't think cache is going to do anything. Hell, my L2 cache wont even stay on. Don't worry Nick, you will be just fine with iBook or PB. *BTW Nick... switch to a Linux server... :p * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macster Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 Macromedia really should do something about their Flash player for Mac. With all the vector and floating point processing power of the G4 and G5, it can still lag Try to reduce the movie framerate or just dont use to many symbols or cut away hidden parts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashel Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 This has always been my experience on the Mac as well, under both OS 9 and X. Playback and development are both effected. Short of making sure it is in the foreground under X (as was mentioned) thats about all you can do. You do raise an interesting question, is it the code or the processor? ;) I would assume it is the code cause a PII runs flash better than a G4 and to a certain extent G5 :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icyorange Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 Are you using the latest version of flash. It runs fine for me What version of Flash are you using - MX 2004? This is pretty much the only thing holding me back from going to a Mac now, Flash performance. After reading http://www.creativemac.com/2003/06_jun/tut...s/flash_osx.htm and http://www.digitalproducer.com/2003/03_mar...17/switcher.htm i've been put off. Supposedly MX 2004 is faster - can anybody back this up? People with Mac's - visit http://www.completeimage.net - a site I made for somebody, on the PC this runs nice and fast at 30fps, does it run at similar speeds on your Mac? If you could post your system specs too that would be helpful. Cheers, Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfader Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 I think with panther and flash player 7 it?s not that bad, I watched www.2advanced.com intro with iBook G3 800mhz Panther and with duron 850 clocked to 960mhz XP and they were both choppy. I also used Flash mx 2004 pro on that same iBook and it was just fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icyorange Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 Can anybody else confirm that Flash performance is better with MX 2004 than previous versions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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