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Crusader01
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March 20, 2017
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Quad Core PC, slow performance.

  • March 20, 2017
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G'day. As the title says, my Quad Core laptop runs flash games deathly slow.

Processor: AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics     (4 CPUs), ~1.5GHz

Memory: 4096MB RAM

Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit

Available OS Memory: 3524MB RAM

Page File: 3466MB used, 4057MB available

Card name: AMD Radeon HD 8330

Compared to a friend's single core laptop, my flash games run like a turtle. The laptop is quite old, but no older than my friend's one. I was inexperienced with tech back then, and thought quad-core laptops will run smoothly.

Is there a way to make Flash take advantage of the quad core?

Is there anything that can be done to boost performance, other than the usual low graphics, update drivers etc.?

Cheers

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    jerryg-mountainhiker
    jerryg-mountainhiker
    Participant
    March 24, 2017

    Just simply loading web pages, Windows 10, Flash will start using so much CPU that I have to kill the process in order to type into a form. Clearly, Flash is NOT doing anything to load the page so what in the world is it doing? I may have to uninstall Flash if this keeps up...

    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2017

    We're more than happy to investigate issues like that.  If you have a link and a set of steps that consistently reproduces the problem, please give them to us.  At that point, we'd be more than happy to fire up a C++ debugger and take a look at what's going on under the hood.  Otherwise we're flying blind, and with the range of possibilities in the set of all of the content on the Internet, the odds aren't great that we'll stumble across the exact same thing that you're seeing.

    Thanks!

    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
    Inspiring
    March 23, 2017

    There's not really enough information here to provide you with a useful answer. 

    Are you sure that it's slow because of CPU contention?  There are other things that make the system slow.

    In general, when I think performance issues, my first question is whether or not we're able to use your GPU.  The first thing I'd recommend, is to make sure that you have the latest drivers installed for your video card.

    If updating graphics drivers doesn't help, check task manager to confirm that the CPU usage is actually really high (>90%) when things are slow.  If it's not, there's probably contention elsewhere in the system.

    What browser are you using?

    If you have Chrome installed, what's the output from the chrome://gpu page?

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    Crusader01Author
    Participant
    March 24, 2017

    I have updated all drivers, of course. It doesn't matter what browser I use, I tried IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera, they always lag...

    I have monitored the CPU usage, and on most flash games the usage is quite high.

    I don't see why the games should lag so much. Normal games (.exe) work fine. Perhaps it's just my laptop not up to spec, but I just can't see it... I can live with it, at least.

    For example, the game Shellshock live 2, a simple tank game, slows down on low graphics. Any configuration files I could tweak, or anything like that?

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