# Loading lag

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-lag/262416>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 5, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-lag/262416 "2008-06-05T18:58:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![riveroaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@riveroaks](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/riveroaks)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-lag/262416/1 "2008-06-05T18:58:29Z")

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I’ve got SWFs that act as the pages of my flash website - whenever I load one of these SWFs into my main movie everything stops until that SWF is fully loaded. This creates a huge lag on the website.

Is there a way to just let this SWF load on its own and not bog down the rest of my movie? I know a lot of websites out there load SWFs for pages and I never see other sites just halt everything until those SWFs are loaded.

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**Author:** ![riveroaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@riveroaks](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/riveroaks)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 7:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-lag/262416/2 "2008-06-08T07:08:28Z")

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Alright, I will give that a try. Thanks.

But I have another question related to the first.

When I load XML documents, or images, or anything, my entire Flash movie lags. Now this is with or without a preloader…just the act of loading files seems to cause the flash movie to lag and wait for the loading to finish. Shouldn’t all of the individual MovieClips just continue while 1 MovieClip loads an XML document, or an image?

I see Flash movies all the time where MovieClips load images and XML documents - everything else on the screen continues functioning normally and the XML document or image just does its thing after its done loading.

The only example I can give of this problem is: [http://info.theginsystem.com/websites/axo\_tcu/](http://info.theginsystem.com/websites/axo_tcu/)

If you visit that site with a slower connection, wait until the images at the top of the page reload, the movie momentarily stops while Flash loads the new set of images…how do I prevent this lag/pause?