Quote: Originally Posted by
mdlesk 
I actually read that first thing this morning and was considering giving it a try, even though I use a different skin. I use the Digital FX skin, will doing the forced downgrade really make a difference?
forced downgrade of flash?
Yes it will.
The thing is flash 9 uses some new way of displaying flash files. Legacy files meaning not 9 when tried to be played on a 9 system, have to be emulated or "swished" I believe the flash term is. I am not sure on the term, but it basically is running your flash in an emulator.
So if you go to a native flash 8 system, and try to play flash 8 files all the way back to 4 I think, you are fine. You cant play files encoded in flash 9 at all. And flash 4 and lower files are emulated, but you have to search high and low to find anything in flash 4 or lower.
So basically yes it makes a difference. On epia boards, it can make the difference between running smoothly, and running choppily and freezing. On a system with a dedicated gpu, then it will just emulate it there, and it should be a negligable gain in performance, but it still will help.