Flash player CPU load

bastibasti · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 581

Hi,

Is there any way to reduce cpu load when running a browser game? :-)

I have a 4 Core Intel, 1 core is busy 100% when my firefox is open (for example facebook games)

i92guboj · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:25 am Post subject:

There's very little you can do, besides trying another browser. The plugin has always been a bit bogus in that respect. In my case, chromium seems to work better than the rest when it comes to the flash plugin. Your mileage may vary.

bastibasti · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 581

Okay, thanks I'll give it a try.

i92guboj · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:36 pm Post subject:

dE_logics · Advocate Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2253 Location: $TERM

I heard flash 10 support hardware acceleration. But you should have the hardware.
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eccerr0r · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject:

Not much can be done if the flash (or any other language) applet is using timing no-op loops for delays... at least I hope they aren't doing that for delays...

I'm glad my machine has 4 cores so it can burn one for stupid applications (like ones that do no-op loops or poor optimization) leaving the others for useful stuff...
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

gnash is supposedly getting full hardware acceleration some time... the problem is nothing useful works on it at all right now.

roland_mai · n00b Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

My experience is that chromium seemed to do somewhat better at first with flash but not much better. For sites that have high fps it uses a great deal of CPU, pretty much just like FF. It would be nice to have a setting to control that all flash apps should not use more than say 25 fps, or something, that way your laptop doesn't turn into a heater when you're watching some online videos.

i92guboj · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:54 pm Post subject:

As said, the problem is the plugin itself. There's very little the browser can do at all about this. The plugin has always been problematic. If you just want to see videos, I suggest fetching them first, then just use mplayer of whatever you prefer to view them. For interactive contents you don't have much choice, though, unless gnash works for you.