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I'm pretty sure your graphics card or the graphics driver is causing this. The first screenshot looks like either failing hardware or a driver bug.

Downgrading from Win7 to XP sounds like the wrong move. Drivers are usually older and buggier for Windows XP, so that likely exacerbated any driver problems. Try Windows 7 again and double check you have the latest drivers. (What do you mean by "minimal resolution"?)

Mind you 7 years old is pretty old for graphics hardware, you might be stuck with crappy drivers if the manufacturer has ended product support.
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entelechystudios - this thread is old and out of date, check for the newer threads and blog posts about Awesomium.
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Maybe your computer isn't fast enough to draw in fullscreen but it can handle a smaller window?
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It's a tradeoff between having a single large image (which wastes memory) and thousands of tiny tiles (which will be slow due to increasing the object count). 256-512 sized tiles is a good middleground.
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There are no hard and fast rules, the best thing to do is test on a low-end machine and see how it performs.
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Using one large image should be avoided at all costs - it will waste a huge amount of memory.

Using a series of 256x256 or 512x512 tiles should be fine, but I wouldn't go any smaller than 256, since then you start getting in to higher object counts.
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So Windows 8 ships with drivers that crash? That's worrying...
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The number 1 reason a computer is slow with a HTML5 game is because the graphics card driver is out of date. Try updating your drivers. Also if you're not using Chrome already give it a shot - I find it's the fastest overall.
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I'll take a look at this soon, but FYI this sounds a lot like the kind of problem bad graphics drivers cause, so it might be worth checking for an update for them.
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Do you mean using a variable for the repeat count? It will evaluate the repeat count expression once then run that many repeats, which I think is the first way you describe. You could try using a 'while' loop instead if you need variable behavior.
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It's a cool demo, but it hasn't got a WebGL renderer, so it's not exactly drop-in - all the rendering code will have to be rewritten for it to work in WebGL mode. Might be possible by a cleverly coded plugin though.
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Best report any issues like this to ludei, there's not much we can do about it.

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