why is flash so slow on macs?
anyone know why flash player and the plugins are so slow and jerky on macs when they are much faster at other things like quake?
is it a poorly compiled flash player and plugin not taking advantage of multithreading of may be the graphics drivers?
i know my g4 is faster than pc's at so many other things so there must be a problem
even better anyone know how to fix it?
Marcus, UK
Re: is that the same on osX?
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Originally posted by mnm
I also have OSX on my G4 and was looking forward to seeing the difference.
I was amazed that it was the same poor performance, i wonder if macromedia will optimise it for that or even if apple would help them ,since they probably don't want their machines appearing slower to flash viewers as oposed to gamers for example?
having the New OsX wont make a difference of you only have an old player, its still the same code. I dont knopw if there's a OsX only version due for release, but I doubt it - at least not b 4 v.6
DUAL 500 G4 upgrade daughter board
just foung out that there is a DUAL 500 daughterboard upgrade card available for all g4's (including cubes as far as i can tell) it costs £600/$999 which is less than the difference between what i paid for my g4 400 and the cost of the g4 500mp.
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/encore_st.html
well since i seen to be stuck with a plugin that is emulating a program rather than actually being one then i'd may as well get the raw power to speed it up instead, with the added advantage of being able to run more plugins in logic audio (my other vice)
thanx for all the info, very interesting, keep it coming
alt :)
Re: why is flash so slow on macs?
I won't go into reasons, as you've received enough of them already. I will tell you that if you close all other applications (or as many as possible) this will improve the viewing of the file, as the processor is less taxed. Even applications that are open, yet idle, seem to affect performance. Also, I would like to see MM address the initial html generated from Flash, as this is very poor. Professionally I have generally had a programmer re-write the code to improve performance.
Take heart though. Since OS X should incorrporate fmore funtion directly into the operating system, performance of these types of programs should continue to improve on Mac OS in the future.
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Originally posted by mnm
anyone know why flash player and the plugins are so slow and jerky on macs when they are much faster at other things like quake?
is it a poorly compiled flash player and plugin not taking advantage of multithreading of may be the graphics drivers?
i know my g4 is faster than pc's at so many other things so there must be a problem
even better anyone know how to fix it?
Marcus, UK