Win xp + flash 8 and flash player 8
Greetings.
I have a kiosk project that loads very large (200-300mb) swfs with embedded video as a “screen saver” function. This seemed to work fine when the movies were originally published in flash 6. However, a recently updated (to flash 8) version started experiencing problems. The screen saver now loads (and unloads) maybe 3 or 4 times, then, on the 5th time, the app won’t load the SWF (though the app does not crash). I would also get a “virtual memory too low” message from the task bar.
Based on that observation, i started monitoring the “task manager” for “PF Usage” and found that every time the screen saver loaded, a few hundred MBs would be added to the Page File…AND LEFT THERE. So, with each successive screen saver loading, the PF would get larger and larger.
I believe this to be the reason for the screensaver swf ceasing to load after a number of times.
I have tried to change the PF settings in windows to very large settings, but doesn’t seem to help. The swf stops loading when the PF is about 1.5 to 1.7GB, even though i set the max pf to 4096mb.
Is there then a way to “flush” the PF when the extern SWF is unloaded?
If it means anything, I am using “levels” not a movie clip to load this large external SWF.
