Ok. I’m working on a project for a museum. It’s a kiosk about a sculpture and it will be created in FlashMX2004 and run on a dual 2.3ghz, 2gb ram, 256mb vid card computer at 1280x1024 fullscreen on a planar touchscreen 19" monitor.
Anyway, everything WORKS fine, it’s just that it’s SOO slow. Even on the godly computer (which, by the way, is godly because later this is going to go in a director file, which will slow it down EVEN MORE so that it can play HD video) it’s slow. Are there any tricks or any kind of optimization we can do to keep it from running so slowly?? It’s all vectors, and it’s crazy but, since it’s obviously not the computer, Flash can’t handle it’s own vectors moving around slightly.
Here are the links for the files you’ll need:
http://www.servercorp.com/~rlseaton/digitalCatalyst.fla
http://www.servercorp.com/~rlseaton/test.fla
So could some of you take a look at this? Don’t mind the code, I’m just a beginner. The art wasn’t done by me, but by the graphic artist for this project.
At any rate, when you click on a person (except for the guy on the right, this is a work in progress) they are to light up and display who they are. When you click them again, they are to zoom in and a section about them will appear. The zooms work fine, but only because I make everything else invisible. The middle guy (bill) and the sculpture itself will zoom in, but I havn’t added a section for them yet. The lady on the left, Beverly, will zoom and if you click on the test section will go back to where she belongs. There is a squirrel and some birds in the background. All color fades are done in Actionscript, as well as the zooms. The colored parts of the sculpture change color slowly.
Anyway, this thing is supposed to run so much faster, but something is dragging it down. I mean we can take out the people and that will speed it up, but we NEED the people in their for the exhibit. We can take the squirrels and birds out, but they don’t help much.
So, does anyone have any ideas on what I could do to speed this up? It USED to be 60fps, but we slowed it to 30 and that helped a little as well 
lol. Don’t know what we were thinking.
Thanks to anyone who replies with some help!
If you have any questions just ask. There are a lot of plans for this project so I can’t really take things out, but if there are some tricks to making things work faster, let me know!
By the way, the figures need to shuffle around slightly, and their bodies are cut up into many vectors. Is there a way we could cut down the number of vectors, and would this help speed it up? (even the squirrel has MANY parts to him). And remember, this was designed for a touchscreen, so rollovers weren’t used. Oh, and the menu on the top left is still in progress as well!
Again thanks ahead of time!!!
–xezton