RE: FLASH: Win98 vs NT?

[Brack, Jeremy]

What are your system specs on your NT box?


I have a 600Mhz PIII laptop running Win 98 with 128MB SDRAM, and a 450Mhz

PIII desktop running NT4Pro SP6 with 256MB SDRAM.  My NT machine runs all

Flash files faster and more stable (no slowdown or much less slowdown on

complex animations).  Also, NT can go beyond the 30FPS barrier that Win 98

has with Flash 4.


If your experiencing slowdown on your NT machine:

it could be that you need more RAM, faster CPU, better video card or video

card with at least 8MB of RAM, more free hard drive space, or maybe you need

only to re-install Flash.


You might also want to defrag your hard drive on NT.  NT unfortunately didnt

ship with a defrag utility, so I suggest you get a defragment program if you

havent done so already.  I use Disk Keeper for defragging NT, and it seems

to work pretty well.


If your NT box is at least a PII, 128MB SDRAM, 8MB video card, roughly 1 GIG

free space on your hard drive, freshly defragged hard drive, and freshly

re-installed Flash 4, then perhaps you are running too many programs in the

background on your NT machine.


One other thing.. you said your running NT Server on your box. If that box

is an active server in your company, then your probably using most of your

CPU resources before you even run a Flash movie.  Server Machines are not

typically used for web design or web browsing.  NT Server usually has its

CPU resources dedicated for web hosting and network traffic.


Flash Player 5 will allow your Win 98 machine to run Flash movies faster

than 30 FPS.  I do not think installing Flash Player 5 on your NT machine

will solve your problem, but its worth a try.  When I installed Flash Player

5 on my Laptop and on my NT machine, both computers played Flash movies at

roughly the same performance.. The NT machine was still able to handle the

ultra complex movies slightly better though.


Since your project is an Intranet site and cant be posted live for us to

test, how about create a copy of it with all of the vital info removed?  Put

in garbage copy in place of the real text.  Well only if you have free time.

I know how busy it can get.. its like that here everyday.


Sorry if this message comes like 3 days late.. Flasher usually delays my

messages by a couple of days.


Jeremy



-----Original Message-----

From: Jeff Bradshaw [

jbradshawefxit [dot] com (mailto:jbradshawefxit [dot] com)

]

Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 2:05 PM

To:

'flasherchinwag [dot] com

'

Subject: FLASH: Win98 vs NT?



I haven't seen this addressed in a while...and don't remember what the cause

or solution is..but, Flash4 appears to eat CPU on my NT box. I've read that

this is a "red herring" and is certainly not apparent on my Win98 box. Is

there something I need to delete on the NT server or what?


Would one of the "enlightened" please offer some help here?

(I wish I could supply a link but were talking "intranet")


TIA, Jeff



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