FLASH: Slow display after loading is complete?

[David Counts]

Two questions:


1) I placed "If frame is loaded/go to"  tags in the first frame of

several linked flash pages so that the viewer doesn't have to see the

page load if it is cached.  It didn't work, so I placed the same

instruction in the second and third frames and have found that that does

work (most of the time).  It's not very satisfying because I get the

first frame or two and then jump to the desired frame.  Is this because

I have other actions in different layers of the first frame?


2) I'm working on a site incorporating Flash for our company, Copithorne

& Bellows.  It has been working very well on my machine and most others

in the office, but now advances very slowly on some other machines, most

importantly David Copithorne's docking station( IBM 770, Pentium 166MHz,

64M RAM).  None of the swf files are larger than 70k and we have a T1.

I have set the frame rate to 24 FPS.


I think the thing that troubles me most is that the loading message

displays _Done_ long before the file reaches completion and it never

speeds up, which suggests to me that the issue is not one of bandwidth,

processor speed or file size, especially since it runs as slowly even

from cache.


Tinkering with the display settings on individual machines seems to have

improved performance a bit, and I suppose folks with shockwave are going

to have a pretty good configuration, but I wonder if I'm missing

something.


Thanks,


Dave






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