So, it may be some time before the full benefit of Stage Video's improvements makes it to your day-to-day web browsing.Īs for other new features in this release, there's Internet Explorer 9 GPU support and support for fullscreen mode with dual monitors - meaning that you can have a movie on one screen and keep working on another.Ĭustom cursors get some love in this release, too, with Flash Player 10.2 handing off the job to the operating system rather than using resources to manually draw custom cursors. One other thing to keep in mind: to take advantage of the new Stage Video tools, sites like YouTube and Vimeo will need to alter their video players. So far Adobe has not set a final release data for Flash 10.2. The smaller CPU footprint alone is well worth the upgrade, provided you don't mind running beta software. While Flash Player 10.2's performance falls short of the hype, there's no question that it's a huge leap forward in terms of performance. The short story is that, while Flash 10.2 does offer decreased processor usage, it doesn't quite live up to Adobe's claims. Worse, running the same tests on Adobe's Stage Video optimized demos, Flash 10.2 actually performed worse than than it did on normal 1080p movies with the cpu usage varying widely between 5 and 60 percent (the 18-20 percent range appears to be the norm).
