# Detecting CPU?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-cpu/269019
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 21, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-cpu/269019 "2008-08-21T15:11:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@rai\_kane3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rai_kane3)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-cpu/269019/1 "2008-08-21T15:11:25Z")
I have a gallery which is in papervision and has some vars to be able to add Blurring, trails and other effects however the result of this is that its dog slow on low cpu machines is there something I can do to detect the cpu and if its powerful enough add these effects?
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### Author:  [@rai\_kane3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rai_kane3)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2008, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-cpu/269019/2 "2008-08-24T10:54:42Z")
Thanks for that its given me a starting point,