Comments on: Please test the Flash 7 Beta Player

By: MC Peko

MC Peko — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 18:37:26 +0000

The mouse-wheel support rocks! Works fine here :)

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 03:43:48 +0000

Tested 4 sites with video, overall they seemed to play better, except one, which was slower. vids are about 500k each, streaming from main timeline. but, I’m on a sat. connection, which varies, so that could have caused the slowness. I tested 12 sites and found no bugs. everything worked as usual. I didn’t notice any speed improvements on vectors, but like I said, my connection speed varies.

By: Jensa

Jensa — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 02:09:02 +0000

Did some tests: http://www.flashmagazine.com/html/830.htm
Got about 50% increase for both vector drawing and scripts. Slight increase for bitmaps too.

By: JeweyJewstein

JeweyJewstein — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 00:40:08 +0000

Well I’ve found tile based game engines to run a lot faster, almost twice as fast in one case.

I noticed that with Player 6 2advanced seemed to have some slowdown. Tried the site with 7, and it almost seems the same, with a slight improvement in speed.

Still, it’s hard to estimate how much faster the player is seeing that sites usually don’t contain an FPS counter.

On a side note… with the recent release of a Central screenshot, and now this beta, I guess this proves that MX2 will be out this fall. Makes sense since they usually release a new version around every 18 months or so…