Prochat occupies 100% CPU usage

[fido123]

Try disabling your adblock if you have one. I just remembered I once had an Adblock on Firefox on Linux and it raped my CPU on half of everything with flash until I figured it out.

[leonid]

Originally Posted by fido123

Try disabling your adblock if you have one. I just remembered I once had an Adblock on Firefox on Linux and it raped my CPU on half of everything with flash until I figured it out.

I do have it on. one sec

EDIT: Tried disabling every single add-on I have on Firefox but still no..

[cedolad]

Have you tried using ProChat on other pro's and not just yours?

[leonid]

Originally Posted by cedolad

Have you tried using ProChat on other pro's and not just yours?

Tried with your profile but still nah..

[fido123]

If all else fails I've had this problem with Linux forever, and Mac these days even runs on the Linux kernel. Flash is complicated as **** and Adobe is going to spend most their time on the OS with the larger market share. As updates come out sometimes things get better and sometimes some flashes just honestly don't work all together, but you might have to grin and bear it like me or go on Windows if you want to do anything flash intensive. Not saying this is the problem, just saying it's likely there's no problem at all at least you can help.

[cedolad]

walp, have fun with your problem, I'm gonna go socialize...on ProChat.

[Velocity]

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ty/prochat.php

Try there to. Also do you have Flash CS5?

[leonid]

Originally Posted by Velocity

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ty/prochat.php

Try there to. Also do you have Flash CS5?

CPU usage hovers around 35%~40%. Good enough for me.

Also CS3 I believe.
EDIT: CS3.

[Velocity]

Originally Posted by leonid

CPU usage hovers around 35%~40%. Good enough for me.

Also CS3 I believe.
EDIT: CS3.

It it hovers around that, then it's something on the profiles as that uses the same swf. The Prochat .fla is CS5, so you would need at least CS4 to open it.

[leonid]

Originally Posted by Velocity

It it hovers around that, then it's something on the profiles as that uses the same swf. The Prochat .fla is CS5, so you would need at least CS4 to open it.

Just tried prochat at synthlight's profile. It didn't lag.

I wonder what in my profile caused so much lag.. Profile background maybe?

By the way, this problem didn't happen in my profile before the last fix for ampersand bug.

[fido123]

I'd say it's the "I'm Online" animations more so than the background. The background is static, uses next to no CPU usage when loaded. Try turning your friends list off so you only have 2 flash animations running.

[Velocity]

The way flash works is:

It loads the plugin for each flash embed, and overlayed in the window.
When multiple items are loaded, flash loads the plugin for each instance causing a lot of over head.
Even windows has this problem but because Flash is better designed for Windows compared to Mac, this isn't much of a issue.

Firefox in recent build has started loading plugins in a external process separate from Firefox to reduce heave loads from Firefox itself that could cause it to freeze.
In the external process, if the plugin crashes (flash) or high CPU usage, it won't affect the browser.

[leonid]

What the hell, prochat doesn't lag at all any more. The version is still 2.8.5, and I didn't change anything on my side, either.

[Velocity]

Originally Posted by leonid

What the hell, prochat doesn't lag at all any more. The version is still 2.8.5, and I didn't change anything on my side, either.

Might have been some background program then.