# AS3 Movieclip moving slowly

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-movieclip-moving-slowly/212972>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 16, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-movieclip-moving-slowly/212972 "2007-01-16T01:20:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Z11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@Z11](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Z11)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-movieclip-moving-slowly/212972/1 "2007-01-16T01:20:13Z")

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I have a game where the FPS are calculated on an On Enter Frame event…

and I have another event that listens for key presses (other for mouse events… but all are disabled…)

And I have game tiles loaded onto a movieclip in the following order…

Flex2Canvas.rawChildren.addChild(map);  
map.addChild(thetilecliphere); \<- that part is looped alot…at the start to generate the tiles

And then I go and press the down button, and move ‘map’… and the game FPS drops from 40 to 10… so i moved the canvas, and it still droped… but nothing moved (strange), and then i went child by child moving them, and it moved again, but still the 10fps…

I tried cacheAsBitmap… and nothing… I would post the code, but with all the stuff inbetween it… it’s like 700 lines long… i’m giving a general over view… Is the problem based on the fact that I’m using the flex canvas to work off of?? Is there any way I can do my own ‘canvas’ like mc… that falls under the canvas, and before all the GUI? I tried adding children to the canvas and it didn’t work.