Very slow fullscreen flash

Royal Chewn

Royal Chewn

Royal Chewn

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Since upgrading my Mid 2007 17" MBP to a SSD and SL. All flash instances especially full-screen flash videos are extremely slow to the point of pointless. I put this down to Snow Leopard as it seems to separate the flash processes unlike standard leopard. Turning off hardware acceleration and other updates seems to do nothing. This is extremely annoying as you might imagine, does anyone have any ideas / solutions before I revoke back to standard Leopard?

TIA ;)
 
Concorde Rules said:
Download 10.2 or 10.2 beta 64 bit.

Uses less CPU time full screen than windowed (based on iPlayer)
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Apprecaite the reply but I have already tried 3 versions of 10.2 all the same. Full-screen flash across all websites.. Iplayer, 4oD, Youtube, Vimeo, you name it all act like power-point presentations. Not really ideal when one's profession is in the creative field. :rolleyes:

Leaning towards the fact the 2007 MBP architecture is not suited for SL?? Google isn't throwing up anything concrete though..

Who here has a 2007 MBP 15" or 17" with SL installed and full-screen flash is fine? Please let me know your setup much appreciated! :cool:
 
Partial solution

Update:

Right, so I upgraded SL to 10.6.7 - no difference. Then I had a nose around in this lengthy thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2157851&start=180&tstart=0 and reset my SMC. Which appears to have worked on the surface.

BUT there are still issues..

All 1080p is jittery and running at half FPS on Firefox 4 and Chrome on Youtube, iplayer (not 1080 but slower) and vimeo. 1080p will swamp 130-150% of CPU. Queue loud fan noises.

The exception is Safari 5 with Vimeo. It uses an HTML 5 fallback mode which only consumes 30-40% of CPU! Boom! But what about Youtube? Nope, you have to either use the official Youtube HTML5 beta which is still pants or better yet install this plugin : http://www.verticalforest.com/youtube5-extension/

I really get the impression Apple are trying to squeeze out Flash.. hah

The reality is that Tiger OSX was the most stable OSX I've used, day-in day-out . Hmmmm.
 
You need to find an app that allows you to see cpu clock speed, (Hardware monitor does but its paid) to see what it's running at as my 2007 MBP did not suffer from what your suggesting!
 
MiniStat2 displays clockspeed. For flash based videos it will jump to 2.4ghz as expected, but fluctuates from 1.4,1.6 even as low as 1.0ghz back to 2.4ghz (CPU is 2.4Ghz coreduo2).

I replaced the MBP battery some 3 months ago to an ebay Chinese replica one, I think this might have something to do with it as it regulates clock speed for these MBPs. Without a battery just having mains the MBP operates at half clock speed apparently. ALso IIRC shouldn't there be green lights on at the bottom of the battery? Mine don't seem to be on. They only go orange then off when inserting the battery. The battery led's should always be green unless charging no?
 
Not sure about your model, but the green lights indicating battery level usually only light up temporarily when you press a squishy button.
 
Spyhop said:
Not sure about your model, but the green lights indicating battery level usually only light up temporarily when you press a squishy button.
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Yeah your right, although mine are orange not green, probably due to replica battery. System says it's fully charged though and has done 27 cycles so far.

I forgot to mention the CPU Temp rises to 90-95degrees C when 1080p video is involved. This seems excessive?
 
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