RE: [Flashcoders] wmode performance headache
I don't have full details about changes in each browser version. There are two performance hits described here: (a) running things in a browser (Projectors (and presumably Apollo) are fastest; different browsers have different strategies in allocating processor cycles to plugins); (b) piping the plugin's content to the browser for compositing, rather than directly-to-screen (WMODE). If your tests show that a particular version of Microsoft Internet Explorer performs much worse than other browsers do, then a good first step is to generalize the observation... confirm it with basic barebones SWF/HTML (no plugin-in-DIV, no rapidfire messaging etc), and confirm it on multiple machines. I haven't heard many people previously report "IE freezes w/WMODE" -- if that were *always* the case then we'd see more of an uproar on the lists. That's what makes me wonder whether there's a particular dependency in this case, that gives you dramatically worse performance than what others see. But there *will* be a performance degradation when playing within a browser, and when asking the browser to blend the plugin's content into its own rendering engine. It shouldn't cause an outright freeze, but there will indeed be a cost to performance. jd ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] wmode performance headache
In normal situation, flash player draws directly to the rectangular area of screen it resides in . But when wmode is set, the job is routed through browser. So basically, the setting wmode value puts performance at the mercy of the browser . If the browser has a bad implementation of wmode, then it would result in poor performance. Its a well known fact that setting wmode to transparent results in extremely bad performance in Gecko browsers. On 6/18/07, Martin Klasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Everyone, I got a campaign which is using some intense animations, and everything works well and fast as usual in the flash IDE. but in the browser it doesnt reach the same speed, as usual, BUT, in Firefox, when setting wmode to "opaque", than it really goes great, the fps-counter I have really shows the same fps as the movie. but in Internet Explorer, "opaque" makes the flash player to freeze in some of the intense animations, the framerate doesnt go down -the whole flash just freezes for a short time. That is so strange. So "window" mode makes the best performance in Internet Explorer. Anyone who can clarify why, how and what I should do to make the best performance out of this? Martin ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
[Flashcoders] wmode performance headache
Hi Everyone, I got a campaign which is using some intense animations, and everything works well and fast as usual in the flash IDE. but in the browser it doesnt reach the same speed, as usual, BUT, in Firefox, when setting wmode to "opaque", than it really goes great, the fps-counter I have really shows the same fps as the movie. but in Internet Explorer, "opaque" makes the flash player to freeze in some of the intense animations, the framerate doesnt go down -the whole flash just freezes for a short time. That is so strange. So "window" mode makes the best performance in Internet Explorer. Anyone who can clarify why, how and what I should do to make the best performance out of this? Martin ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com