Question: As the title suggests. I have to put a GIF I made on Flash in a PowerPoint presentation. But when I run the presentation, the GIF runs on a dreadfully low frame rate. Is this issue fixed in later versions of PowerPoint? Or is there a fix to it in the 2010 version itself? Or if there's another software I could use to make presentations which run the GIF properly?

I did search for this, but I could only find forum queries which were unanswered.

Answer: 
Only because it hasn't been mentioned: Are you inserting the GIF file as an image? From experience, this results in slow, laggy playback with lots of dropped frames.

The solution?

Insert the GIF as a video file (Insert > Video from file) then set its properties to play automatically and loop until stopped.

That's it! ;)
Scribblemacher answer is in my opinion a good one.

I am just puting an alternative if for some reason you need to stick to the animaged gif.

There is an interesting program: <http://slidedog.com/> for Windows and there is a mac beta.

Basicly what it does is that integrates quite well diferent media in the same presentation.

You can put for example the first slides of a power point, then put a webpage as a next slide and then again a power point, or video, or a pdf into a seamless presentation.

So you could insert your gif into a simple html document as a slide.

If you go for the video option, you can use VirtualDub to convert your gif into video. <http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/>

Try to use a good codec for avi, like Xvid <https://www.xvid.com/>