# Major lag in puzzle game

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**Created:** [January 18, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/major-lag-in-puzzle-game/175882 "2006-01-18T15:35:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/major-lag-in-puzzle-game/175882/1 "2006-01-18T15:35:12Z")

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im making a jig saw puzzle game but it lags really badly. I load an image into a movieclip, duplicate it several times for each piece and then mask the area which makes up the piece, but its lagging really badly and i cant think of anything that would fix it.

I dont want to break the image up and make individual pieces either because i want the user to be able to upload their own image and use it as a jig saw puzzle. Does anyone know of another way i could do this?

Thanks,  
Brendan Smith