# Why do multiple movie clips slow each other down?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 25, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-do-multiple-movie-clips-slow-each-other-down/156384 "2005-07-25T15:08:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![tikwik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@tikwik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tikwik)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-do-multiple-movie-clips-slow-each-other-down/156384/1 "2005-07-25T15:08:41Z")

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Hi everyone,

My movie contains multiple movie clips running at the same time - but even when there are just two movie clips running together, they seem to slow each other down. Is there any way around this??

thanks much!!