Flash Video Performance

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http://live.pirillo.com/ - Gareth Charles writes:

I was wondering if you could shed some light on a problem that I have had with my new PC ever since I got it, the problem is when I try to view videos from YouTube and put them in full screen my FPS goes right down and the video starts jumping and skipping frames. It is impossible to watch it and this also happens when I try to play flash games and want to play them in full screen mode. The PCs at my school seem to cope with this fine and I know that my PC is more powerful than the ones that they use.

There are a lot of potential reasons why this is happening:

• Your video drivers may be outdates
• The flash video may not be optimized
• You may have too many programs running
• You may have too much eye candy enabled on your system

Mouseboyx in the chat room notes that this may be related to the screen resolution of the computers. At home you may have a much higher resolution than the monitors at school. Unlike video games for the PC, flash does not resize the display area when it is maximized, so flash has to pump out far more pixels in full screen mode.

What do you think? Do you have any advice for running flash video in a full screen?

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