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reply to plencnerb

Re: [WIN7] Flash kills my PC

Ok, how can I get them to you? Am I allowed to zip them up and post them here? Should I e-mail them to you?

--Brian

if uploading here won't work, feel free to pm me.

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Attached is the EXE's for version 11.3.300.268. One is for IE, and the other is for non-IE browsers.

--Brian

Thanks for uploading those. So far, the good news is that At least on other sites so far, I've not experienced a crash.

The bad news is, trying to watch ANY video on youtube just gives me the "An error has occurred. Please try again later".

Searching online brings me to mozilla's help article about it, which says either to update (which so far has been a spectacular failure), or to downgrade to Flash 10.3.
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Well, on the adobe site I linked to, you can download version 10.3.183.48. Its the last download at the bottom of the page.

I went ahead and saved it locally, as I did not have that one. So, maybe you can give that one a try?

--Brian

Nope. Youtube now won't allow anything to play at all... not even the HTML5 version of the site will play with 10.3 installed.
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reply to plencnerb
You can send a file from right here:

»/sendfile

Love this service but make sure you don't make the link public.
It only seems to allow 5 downloads maximum. And there is no way to reset it, other than to re-upload.

reply to C0deZer0
Not a real solution, but virtual box with something like ubuntu should allow you to do what you need for now. Have you considered removing your old video card, and seeing if that resolved any problems yet?

Whelp, 11.4 on waterfox still crashed. It lasted longer than the current build Adobe wants to push on us now, but still...

I'm not fond of Chrome, either, but so far, that one hasn't crashed on either SD or HD videos. This at least leads me to believe it is a problem with the software end of things.
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What's the specs of your system? I swear I fixed this before for someone else and thinking about it, the issue may not have been so simple and may have been a BIOS adjustment to his Asus board.

What motherboard do you have?

Lesse...
•Q6600
•eVGA 680i SLI
•XFX GTX 285 (primary)
•eVGA 8800GTS 640 (now PhysX - no monitors are connected to this one)
•X-Fi Xtremegamer
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reply to C0deZer0
I'm not sure the results would be different, but have you tried it with 32-bit firefox instead? The latest version of Firefox is 17, waterfox has only kept up to 16.

Chrome will use the latest version of flash, but it has their own build.

Flash on Chrome finally crashed today.

Uninstalled Waterfox to install Firefox 17. It rather auto-installed the 'current' build of Flash Player as soon as I visited Youtube. was in the middle of watching one of the Summer/Awesome games done quick speed runs from SDA's marathons and again, it killed my PC. No mouse or keyboard response, much less being able to use CAD or Ctrl+shift+esc...

So let's see...

Can't use any 10.* build of Flash because Youtube won't even accept playing any videos. Conversely, the HTML5 version of Youtube also requires Flash to be installed but won't explain why, and won't let me put the video playing in one window while I go attend to anything else (be it another tab, or another program). I'll confess, I got spoiled of being able to do that since I was finally able to hook up a second monitor to my PC.

Using 11.3 allows other sites to play video, but YouTube in particular won't let any video play, because it's some kind of bug to do with that build of Flash Player. Also, sites that use Flash to automatically determine the video quality to play (example: southparkstudios.com's full episodes, or even just what shows stream their TV shows online), doesn't.

11.4 crashed.

Google Chrome's Flash Player Crashed.

And predictably, 11.5.whatever it is now crashes, regardless of whether it's Waterfox or Firefox.

Updating video drivers hasn't solved the problem either.

I don't know what else to do here.

The only browser I haven't tried Flash on yet, is IE... which at this point would be an ad-laden land mine waiting to happen.
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The thing I would try is to go down to just one video card in your system. I see you have two of them, so power things off, physically take one video card out of your computer, and then run things for a bit and see what happens.

Regardless if it crashes or not, pull that card and run with the other one, and see if it crashes on the other one.

Then, report back your results to us, and see where we can go from there.

--Brian
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But why should I have to do that... For Flash Player? that's what I don't understand.

Flash is infamous for being a CPU hog, not killing video cards, like Doom3 killed my first Radeon 9800 Pro.

And obviously the first immediate problem with doing that is that I'm immediately downgrading myself. And then the fact that it could be a couple days before the crash could happen.
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It would not be the first time software didn't work well with multiple video cards, and it won't be the last. Hell, installing nvidia drivers on a system with an active intel gpu, and a nvidia card with monitors attached to both caused the nvidia installer to leave the monitors completely black when it refreshed the drivers instead of rebooting, even taking out the monitor attached to the intel gpu. I had to wait for what seemed to be completion of the installer, and press the hardware power button to turn off the machine since I could no longer interact with the gui. This was the fault of nvidia.

Get a new cpu, and flash is not a cpu hog, it would be just like watching a movie in something like vlc without hardware acceleration. You just have half a decade old hardware.
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