Flash Player 30.0.0.113 - Audio and Mouse Control Issues

[sergeyп]

flash version: 30.0.0.113

OS: Windows 10

Browsers : Chrome (Mozilla) 

In social game audio (inc. sounds) isn't playing

Mouse cursor doesn't move fluently

[_maria_]

Please provide direct link to game that is experiencing issues.

Also, please work through the Troubleshoot Flash Player games, video, or audio| Windows guide.

Thank you.

[sergeyп]

game: Klondike on Facebook | Facebook

After the last (ver. 30.0.0.113) update of the flash player, the execution of the game code requires more CPU time (almost in 10 times, comparing to execution in flash player version 27). For example, in Adobe Scout, you could see that execution of system function "getTimer()" requires much more CPU time (approximately in 1000 times, comparing to execution in flash player version 27).

[_maria_]

Thank you for the link and the additional details. Can you take a look at Performance Issues in Flash 30. ?  Your issue sounds similar to this one.

[jeromiec83223024]

Yes.  We've made a necessary mitigation for Spectre/Meltdown-style attacks that significantly increases the cost of calls to getTimer() (~100us).  This change isn't apparent in most content, but if you're calling getTimer in a tight loop, the impact pretty pronounced. The best solution is to modify the content to use getTimer() more judiciously.

[sergeyп]

Thanks for the answers.

Performance Issues in Flash 30.  is the discussion for the same issue. I'll continue read that one.

[jeromiec83223024]

Just to be clear, the resolution of getTimer() is 1 millisecond.  The delay we introduced is about 100 microseconds.  This only becomes apparent when content is calling getTimer() hundreds or thousands of times within a single millisecond, when the value of those calls would never change.  

The folks at MIT implemented a nice cached timer approach for Scratch that addresses this, which you can see here:

Flash 30 performance changes by cwillisf · Pull Request #1396 · LLK/scratch-flash · GitHub