# Excruciating lag

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excruciating-lag/218148>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 5, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excruciating-lag/218148 "2007-03-05T15:10:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![newbie\_geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d9b06d/32.png) [@newbie\_geek](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/newbie_geek)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excruciating-lag/218148/1 "2007-03-05T15:10:26Z")

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Hey all,

So i am working on this otherwise glorious and powerful Apple G4 dual core tower with 3 gigs of RAM. It is a blazingly fast machine in almost all regards… all EXCEPT for when it is using flash. Whenever i have flash 8 loaded and i use another program, a browser for example, and then go BACK to flash, it takes FOREVER (sometimes a full minute) for the the beachball of impatience to go away and allow me to use flash again.

On top of that whenever i export a movie, it seems to take for FREAKIN’ ever for that to happen to.

Like i say, all other programs run like a dream. I am wondering if this is a memory allocation issue, maybe it is a built in quirk in flash 8, what’s going on? Any thoughts?