Re: FLASH: f5 player re: p4 optimization

[John Dowdell]

At 3:35 PM 12/27/0, Brack, Jeremy wrote:

>Flash 5 player works fine with my P4 1.5 Gighz at home, but it seems like

>its not taking full advantage of the CPU.  The player will still slow down

>on extremely intensive animations when I zoom in manually on full screen

>mode and such, but it can handle everything a lot better than a P3!  I will

>test shockwave next.  I think Shockwave will probably take better advantage

>of the CPU over Flash.


Sorry, I'm not sure if there's a question here. It's posited that the

player "is not taking full advantage of (a particular?) CPU", but the

supporting evidence seems to be that particularly intensive movies can slow

when zooming (and necessarily cropping).


The part about the Pentium 3 seems to be confirming that it's generally

slower than the Pentium 4, although I may be not intuiting some part not

written. (In case it's a situation where you find a particular task is

performed faster by a particular P3 than a particular P4, then that's not

impossible, subject to the content and work being requested.)


In case there's an implicit "Does the Macromedia Flash Player not use the

full capabilities of faster machines?" then no, not to my knowledge, we

generally just request tasks as the computer can perform them, up to the

framerate you set.


Sorry I'm useless here, but if there's a way I could help then I'd like to,

thanks.


jd






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