Slow Flash performance
Monday, April 9, 2012 by kona0197 | Discussion: 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?
Reply #2 Monday, April 9, 2012 9:19 AM
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.
Reply #3 Monday, April 9, 2012 9:34 AM
Reply #4 Monday, April 9, 2012 9:58 AM
See if you can roll back to a previous version of Flash. See what happens.
Reply #5 Monday, April 9, 2012 10:01 AM
When you open flash player, take a look at this tab and maybe try playing with the settings? Not sure it'll help.
Reply #6 Monday, April 9, 2012 3:34 PM
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?
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.
Reply #7 Monday, April 9, 2012 7:40 PM
Different machine.
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?
Reply #9 Monday, April 9, 2012 10:44 PM
Yes it is. I tried that trick as well. Is there a way to increase the size of the cache?
Reply #10 Tuesday, April 10, 2012 2:56 AM
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.
Reply #11 Tuesday, April 10, 2012 2:59 AM
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
Reply #12 Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:17 PM
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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Reply #1 Monday, April 9, 2012 4:50 AM
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.