Hi there
I'm using a Powerbook PB 1.5 with Mac OS X Panther (10.3.9) installed on
it.
And since sometime I'm looking for and answer on why most of the flash
animation I see in the web raise the CPU usage on my machine to near or
to 100% !!!
Does anyone really knows why it's so?
I read several version all blaming macromedia for a lousy port to
Macintosh.
Also there are version about not supported graphic card that makes the
CPU do the calculation work instead of letting the graphic card do it.
Is there any way to improve the Flash plugin performance on Mac ???
I have the version 9 installed and I also tried it on a parallel
installation of Tiger with no avail :-(

Thanks in advance

Vladimir

Vladimir,

I am having the same issues on pretty much an identical set up. I have
contacted Adobe with no response. The only thing I can seem to dig up that
helped was lowering the frame rate from 30 to 15. This cut back a bit. There
are some other small optimization tricks that slightly help but none of them
seem to be a real solution.

There are a few articles which are out of date stating that flash player uses
100% of the available CPU until it is called on by another application. I did
some tests with applications running and a flash website running in a browser
and as I quit the applications the browser did start to take up more CPU. It
seems like there is some truth in this.

When I download the Flash Player 8 & 9 security.pdf it goes into saying that
Flash player has now created quotas on what the amount of memory and CPU it
will use. So that negated this thought.

So basically I came up with a whole lot of nothing. It is exceptionally hard
to test this stuff and the effect it will have on peoples computers in a live
environment with no documentation or answers to this.

IF ANYONE has an answer to this it would be greatly appreciated.

Same problem here on a iBook G4 (1,2 Ghz, 768MB Ram, OS X Version 10.4.9).
Flash Movies on Websites in Safari are using 100% CPU Power in the WindowServer
process. The problem is reproduceable, if I deinstall Flash Player 9 and use
Flash Player 8 all is fine, reinstall Flash Player 9 and everything is fucked
up - Adope do something about this.