Hello Kiruparians,
I have just recently started using Flash 8. It has some great features (I am loving the scriptable blur effects) but I have noticed a bit of an issue with older files.
When I use Flash player 8 to play *.swf files created in Flash MX, they run very noticeably slower than normal. I have a lot of flash games I’ve been gradually making over the years, all in Flah MX (and of course using the original Actionscript). When I try to play these in an IE window for example, it automatically uses Flash 8 to play it, and often the slow speed of processing really takes the edge of the games I’ve made. On even the lowest graphics quality settings they still play very “choppy” indeed.
Its not my computer. Using Flash player 6 solves the problem completely, and the games run smoothly again. Does the Flash 8 player naturally dislike playing Actionscript 1 and Flash 6 files? Is there any way of making it run faster without having to upgrade everything to Flash 8? Because thats a lot of re-coding I would like to avoid if possible.
When I finally get some of these games on the internet, the visitors browser windows will want to view everything in Flash 8, slowing down the games. I find it hard to believe they would upgrade Flash to a new version that cannot play the older versions as well as before.
Any help on the matter is greatly appreciated.
~Roboman
