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Flash acceleration!
Anybody tried either of these utilities:
http://www.globfx.com/products/swfplayer/
http://www.swfxxl.com/
The first one is amazing and uses opengl to render the flashmovie, making it loads faster than flash even at full screen, but I cant seem to get it to work with actionscript :-(
The second one is pretty much designed for flash games, but just enlarges the swf to play at full screen lo-res without any reduction in speed, it also outputs to .exe
I'd like to know if anybody knows of any other utilities that accelerate flash, as I'm not holding my breath for the flash 7 player. If the globfx player had the features and conmpatibility of swfxxl, then we'd be able to produce near commercial quality games.
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What I believe both of these clients do is simply keep the movie your normal size, but resize the users resolution to the desired size. therefore making the game fullscreen. There is no speed boost in this, but also isnt any speed decrease.
If you want an example, I created a super quick player like this for marmottes game because people wanted full screen.
If you check the thread:
http://www.flashkit.com/board/showth...0&pagenumber=1
Check marmottes game first (kudos to him btw ;))
then read on the second page of my exe and try that.
You see basically how these clients work.
Nugget
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yes, the swfxxl does just that.
However, the glob fx player is a swf player rebuilt from the ground up, and it can do some crazy 3d things. Try loading your swfs into it and selecting hardware acceleration, then goto goodies-view 3d slices. It'll display your swf in a cube with all of the layers separated!
As I said, if it supported actionscript, we'd be laughing!
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Ok, I found another one...
Flash studio pro can produce projector files that run at lower fullscreen resolutions, so it essentially uses the same techniques as swfxxl, and xMCNUGGETx's player.
Still not quite what I'm looking for. I am wondering whether the new flash player is going to be taking full advantage of graphics hardware, which is why it's supposed to be faster...