# Throttling troubles

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/throttling-troubles/326129>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [November 24, 2011, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/throttling-troubles/326129 "2011-11-24T08:07:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Niallith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c0e974/32.png) [@Niallith](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Niallith)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/throttling-troubles/326129/1 "2011-11-24T08:07:28Z")

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Hey guys!  
I’m having some problem with throttling :

> Throttling - Non-visible SWFs and SWFs on hidden tabs are throttled down to 2 frames per second. No rendering occurs unless the SWF becomes visible again. Timers and local connections are also clocked down to 2 FPS.

In a single player game, you can just pause the game when the swf is non visible/inactive, but in a multiplayer game that’s a huge problem for me. Is there any way to desactivate this using as3? I did read few things about wmode etc… but indeed you can’t change the way the game is embeded on the flash games portal.

My problem is that I have a timer listener that check every 100ms for collisions and few other things. If the player minimize his window, the timer will only occurs 2 times per second instead of an average of 10, OUCH !

I just hope someone got a solution :mountie: