It's possible that your background SWFs are doing something that makes the player's filter code nervous, and so either drop shadow, or the "blur background" filter is having to be re-run every frame, which will own your CPU since it's not accelerated (afaik).
Just an idea, but could be somewhere to start your investigations :) -Josh On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The profiler will help you find inefficiencies in your app. > > > > Loading lots of SWFs is, of course, going to eat resources. > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *kenny14390 > *Sent:* Friday, June 20, 2008 9:44 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Flex Efficiency > > > > I'm making a simple game in Flex and I'm noticing a lot of performance > issues. The game is very easy and simple: you have 25 tiles and you > need to click them one at a time to reveal the prize (or no prize) > behind them - match three like prizes and win. Getting everything on > the screen and coding it together wasn't bad, but I'm noticing a > considerable lack in performance when the game is running. > > To be honest, I have a lot of SWF files in there, and I'm making heavy > use of the Move transition (usually for each of the 25 tiles to > animate them). Some of the SWFs are on an infinite loop and those are > probably eating up a good amount of the resources. > > Another thing that was surprising was the CPU usage eaten up when I > added a PopUp to the application. The browser page seems to freeze > while it's open and only after I close the PopUp does the page resume > its task. I guess I can get away without it, but it was odd how that > happened. > > Is this common to have such monstrous applications, while using the > features I mentioned? Is there something wrong with my programming > instead? If I run the game in Firefox 3, it is using well over 150M of > memory and 50% of my CPU. When the PopUp is open, that spikes to 95%! > What can I do to alleviate this stress on the computer? > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
