Is your Flash slow?

[Keven Ring]

Wolfgang wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 00:45, Michal Zeravik wrote:
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>>The speed of Flash movies It not depends on computer so much.
>>When I run the yeti game, there is almost none processor activity
>>for that process (from 'top'). Problem must be somewhere else.
>>My machine is athlonxp2200+, gf4, 512DDR.
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>>michal
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>>Wolfgang wrote: 
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>>>On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 02:29, Rotariu Bogdan wrote:
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>>>>slow to me...
>>>>running on a celeron 1700MHz / 512 DDR
>>>>(fc1 with kernel 2.6.3)
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>>>>On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 15:55, Wolfgang wrote:
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>>>>>On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 00:38, Mark Guzzo wrote:
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>>>>>>Hello all,
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>>>>>>My co-worker and I love to duke it out about Linux -vs- Windows.
>>>>>>Yesterday he send me a flash link that I find quite funny.
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>>>>>>http://home.tele2.fr/kcv/pinguin.swf
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>>>>>>TUX can take a beating but he keeps on ticking :-)
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>>>>>>Anyway.....
>>>>>>When I play it on my FC1 box, it is very slow. I have to drop the
>>>>>>quality down just to make it playable. But on his Windows box it run
>>>>>>fine. I have seen this before with other *.swf files, so at least I know
>>>>>>it's not particular to this site.
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>>>>>>Does anyone else have the same issue?
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>>>>>>I'm running on a P3 with 512M.
>>>>>>Mark
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>>>>>Seems to be ok to me... But then I'm running a somewhat faster system.
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>>>>>Wolf
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>>>>>PS. Cool little game... Damn addictive. :-)
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>>>I have not noticed it being slow due to my system being a Dual Athlon
>>>MP2800+ CPU's, 1.5GB of REG RAM and a MSI GeForce FX 5950 Ultra video
>>>card.
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>>>Wolf
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>What Video Drivers are you running??? I'm running Nvidia's latest V53.36
>drivers. And all seems to run ok. Even OpenGL Games run fast.
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>Wolf
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Folks:

  Perhaps rather than saying "it's fast/slow/etc", and giving CPU 
metrics, give metrics related to something tangible - say, how long it 
takes for the penguin to drop - that is, not swinging at him.  For me 
it's about 2-2.5 seconds.  With the game running [not doing anything, 
just sitting there], it eats about 15% of my CPU.  In terms of graphics 
cards, I have a Matrox G450, and run in xinerama mode.

  While it appears to run fine on my system, I do notice that ESD [the 
sound driver] is taking up way more CPU than it needs to [50%].  
However, this appears to occur more so after I have closed the Mozilla 
window....

  BTW, someone claimed a distance of just shy of 200.  My best is around 
320.... ;)