Question about flash(not about flash development)

[macedo]

I have a quad core processor, but flash player only uses 1 of the cores, this is bad because some games run slowly with just a core(box clever is an example, if there are more than 50 green guys).
I wonder if there is a way to make flash player use the 4 cores?

[mesges]

From the best of my knowledge, I don't think you could. Flash games run using the Adobe thingymajjigy, which is proprietary software, and so it is up to them to use all the cores. Within a browser it would probably be up to the makers of that program. I wouldn't be suprised if they multi-threaded certain parts of the software, but I doubt it would do much for the actual swf.


You really ought to feel sorry for me, I'm using a 4-year old computer or something that dies when I play pretty much any flash game that was recently made. I hate the way the flash designers just don't care about the fact that they use hundreds of separate movies within the swf, just because they're a nerd and have all the latest technology.

[Marshmallow]

Originally Posted by mesges

From the best of my knowledge, I don't think you could. Flash games run using the Adobe thingymajjigy, which is proprietary software, and so it is up to them to use all the cores. Within a browser it would probably be up to the makers of that program. I wouldn't be suprised if they multi-threaded certain parts of the software, but I doubt it would do much for the actual swf.


You really ought to feel sorry for me, I'm using a 4-year old computer or something that dies when I play pretty much any flash game that was recently made. I hate the way the flash designers just don't care about the fact that they use hundreds of separate movies within the swf, just because they're a nerd and have all the latest technology.

The reason they put seperate movie clips is for various actions and because it makes them look professional. That and many flash makers nowadays use flash CS3 instead of macromedia flash 8, which i think may result in more coding for the swfs.

I'm not the expert on computer hardware, so i can't help you much macedo, but usually box clever levels with 50 or more green guys lag the game anyway.

[mesges]

Originally Posted by Gong

The reason they put seperate movie clips is for various actions and because it makes them look professional. That and many flash makers nowadays use flash CS3 instead of macromedia flash 8, which i think may result in more coding for the swfs.

No, what I meant is that the game designer considers everything that runs on his or her PC to be useful to everybody. If they don't understand the basic principle of keeping the useability high and the quality high at the same time, as you get on many of the most complex of games, then they are only ever poor game designers - and ought to sort themselves out.

Think about console games - if they always put in the best visuals and best AI and best menu system and best interactions , the game would never run at more than 5 FPS. It's actually easier to use all the best graphics and all the best physics engines (to some extent), but they realise how bad a game it would be.