Slow Flash performance

Published on April 9, 2012 By kona0197 In Personal Computing

So after a new install of Windows 7 and the newest version of Flash I have noticed the games I play on Facebook run really slow. My GPU, Radeon 6320M, is built into the CPU. I was curious what can be done to make Flash games run faster. I have the processor set to run at full speed when plugged in, and I have 4 GB of DDR3 at my disposal, so what else can be done?

I should also mention I am using Firefox version 3.6.28. Would upgrading to Firefox 11 help any?

Comments

Uvah

on Apr 09, 2012

Open task manager and see in processes what else is running at the same time. Background programs can sometimes eat up resources and slow things down.

kona0197

on Apr 09, 2012

Yeah I checked that. Hardly nothing else is running. I think it's an slow GPU issue. The GPU just isn't up to the task.

neone6

on Apr 09, 2012

kona0197

reply 2

Yeah I checked that. Hardly nothing else is running. I think it's an slow GPU issue. The GPU just isn't up to the task.

Shouldn´t be that since you said that "after a new install of Windows 7 and the newest version of Flash the games I play on Facebook run really slow." -If they were running faster before on the same machine......?

Uvah

on Apr 09, 2012

See if you can roll back to a previous version of Flash. See what happens.

DrJBHL

on Apr 09, 2012

When you open flash player, take a look at this tab and maybe try playing with the settings? Not sure it'll help.

Savyg

on Apr 09, 2012

quoting post

Both, upgrade to FF11 and upgrade your video drivers http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Almost all GPUs are up to Flash.

kona0197

on Apr 09, 2012

neone6

reply 3

Different machine.

DrJBHL

reply 5

When you open flash player, take a look at this tab and maybe try playing with the settings? Not sure it'll help.

It is set to ask me before storing info on the computer.

Video drivers are current. Flash version is current. Yet the machine still has trouble running anything in Flash. I'm telling you all i think it's a GPU issue. The GPU is built into the CPU and this CPU is a budget CPU.

Is there any tests I can perform?

G_Bison

on Apr 09, 2012

Is your cache empty?

kona0197

on Apr 09, 2012

Yes it is. I tried that trick as well. Is there a way to increase the size of the cache?

Savyg

on Apr 10, 2012

I don't have Flash benchmarks, in fact I don't have 6320 benchmarks

but when the 6310 is capable of playing Modern Warfare 2 I would expect it to be capable of Flash as well.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4023/the-brazos-performance-preview-amd-e350-benchmarked/5

On the other hand, Firefox has been hardware accelerated since 4.0 http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/4.0/releasenotes/ (and yes, your GPU is good enough for hardware acceleration) and has improved every version. Not only that, but using an old browser is asking for viruses. From what I can tell 3.6 will EOL on April 24th, meaning no more security updates (though if you think it's secure as is you're kidding yourself.)

Upgrade already. Free instant joy, assuming your comp is secure otherwise.

Savyg

on Apr 10, 2012

While I'm at it, some confirmation that the Fusion GPUs are hardware accelerated in Flash. - http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-fusion-apus-accelerate-08feb2011.aspx

kona0197

on Apr 10, 2012

Upgrading to Firefox 11 fixed the issue. Now if we could just get WC to run as quick as the other sites I visit...

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