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guino · 06-26-2005, 12:03 AM

Knwon Issues

1-Flash does NOT make any use of graphic accelatarion of video cards such as OpenGL or Direct3D, so basically you will never be able to achieve fast Flash graphics/animations without a card that is capable of fast 2D acceleration (i.e. most SHARED memory cards).

2-Using MilkDrop and Flash at the same time may cause CPU load issues. There's some kind of bug in the Flash.ocx (By Macromedia) that on CERTAIN machines (or perhaps video cards) the flash movie messes up the CPU work load -- my best guess is that the VIS plugin is using CPU which causes the Flash file to loose synchrony and furthermore stay out of sync making the flash movie try harder to display the stuff on the screen (but it never does "catch up"). I had to disable all kinds of stuff in RR to find out about it and it wasn't until I prevented RR from displaying flash movies that it started to work normally. This does NOT happen if you use a skin that doesn't have flash... I tried all kinds of stuff to prevent the issue from happening without any success.. basically, if this happens to you, you'll have to pick between flash and milkdrop... so, not EVERYBODY has to do that.. it really depends on your machine.. for instance:

-My Laptop is 2.2Ghz and has a GForce2 4200 -- Works Fine
-My Desktop is 2.4Ghz and has an ATI AIW 8500DV -- Messes up with Flash

I also know for a fact that the MilkDrop issue may not surface if you set it to automatically start in full screen if the 'change resolution' option is set up.

I'm sorry but after trying for so long I give up in making it work.. I can only hope that a new flash player version will have this fixed ... Perhaps a different type of Flash animation (frame based) would not have the same issue..

06-26-2005, 12:03 AM	#3
guino RoadRunner Mastermind Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Vitória, ES - Brazil Posts: 8,047	Knwon Issues 1-Flash does NOT make any use of graphic accelatarion of video cards such as OpenGL or Direct3D, so basically you will never be able to achieve fast Flash graphics/animations without a card that is capable of fast 2D acceleration (i.e. most SHARED memory cards). 2-Using MilkDrop and Flash at the same time may cause CPU load issues. There's some kind of bug in the Flash.ocx (By Macromedia) that on CERTAIN machines (or perhaps video cards) the flash movie messes up the CPU work load -- my best guess is that the VIS plugin is using CPU which causes the Flash file to loose synchrony and furthermore stay out of sync making the flash movie try harder to display the stuff on the screen (but it never does "catch up"). I had to disable all kinds of stuff in RR to find out about it and it wasn't until I prevented RR from displaying flash movies that it started to work normally. This does NOT happen if you use a skin that doesn't have flash... I tried all kinds of stuff to prevent the issue from happening without any success.. basically, if this happens to you, you'll have to pick between flash and milkdrop... so, not EVERYBODY has to do that.. it really depends on your machine.. for instance: -My Laptop is 2.2Ghz and has a GForce2 4200 -- Works Fine -My Desktop is 2.4Ghz and has an ATI AIW 8500DV -- Messes up with Flash I also know for a fact that the MilkDrop issue may not surface if you set it to automatically start in full screen if the 'change resolution' option is set up. I'm sorry but after trying for so long I give up in making it work.. I can only hope that a new flash player version will have this fixed ... Perhaps a different type of Flash animation (frame based) would not have the same issue.. __________________ Road Runner ,RR's Myspace "Being happy is not about having what you want, it's about wanting what you have." "The best things in life are always free - but that doesn't mean money can't buy you good things." Last edited by guino; 07-27-2005 at 02:09 PM.