September 11, 2010
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flash acceleration/etc
this is kind of old news, but flash versions starting with 10.1 now have hardware accelerated video playback, which can be nice in many cases.. It always used to annoy me how much CPU just playing some flash videos consumed, but now that problem is somewhat alleviated.. And we can make more use of those GPUs some of us spend $100′s on.. Two cool related utilities I found where
GPU-Z http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
and DXVA Checker http://bluesky23.hp.infoseek.co.jp/en/index.html#DXVAChecker
GPU-Z displays some info about your video card, and (depending on make/model/driver) will show some stats, like “GPU Load” or “Video Engine Load”. DXVA support (Direct X Video Acceleration) is needed for Flash to perform hardware acceleration (in windows, of course. I’m not certain of support for acceleration in other OSes). Be sure to update your video drives and flash version to take advantage of this feature.
