Fuck flash!

acid_drop

Ok, So I've had Win7 since probably February. But I've noticed this recently, that a flash video starts eating ALL my CPU power. I mean 100 percent. Three browsers. Firefox, chrome, even IE.

I didn't have this problem before. I googled it and people have apparently had this too, but I've never found a fix or anything.

I'm wondering if an older version, pre 10.1 version of flash might fix it, but I can't even find that.

Has anyone else run in to this BS? My hardware may be 4 years old, but it used to run shit smooth as hell, with minimal CPU or RAM usage, not the CPU usage spikes like crazy when trying to play anything flash.

I don't have cable, so it's running my after work entertainment of Psych, Burn Notice, and Porn. HALP! ?

Slartibartfast

Is flash hardware accelearation enabled?

go to a flash object (youtube vid), right click > settings > enable hardware acceleration.
it should be enabled.

Unknown

Updated your flash player and shit?

acid_drop

Slartibartfast wrote: »

Is flash hardware accelearation enabled?

go to a flash object (youtube vid), right click > settings > enable hardware acceleration.
it should be enabled.

Yeah, it's enabled. And I have the most current version of flash.

It's just annoying in that a month and a half ago, I didn't have a single problem. Now this crap is just annoying

TLV

Specs of your machine?
Is it just flash video or flash in general?
32-bit or 64-bit OS?

Dfg

Upgrade your flash player to version 10.1.
Update your Graphic Card Drivers.


If you have a GPU that supports DXVA2 or hardware acceleration, Flash will use it and it won't eat up your processor. If you don't have it, then it will eat up everything.

acid_drop

I think it's flash in general. Maybe just the videos.

But it's not a new machine, but I've never had problems like this, and really shouldn't.

Intel Pentium D3.0Ghz, dual core- I know, I know....
2 Gigs of ram.
HD Radeon 4870

I have flash 10.1.53.64
Current video drivers I believe.

32bit Windows 7

Dfg

acid_drop wrote: »

I think it's flash in general. Maybe just the videos.

But it's not a new machine, but I've never had problems like this, and really shouldn't.

Intel Pentium D3.0Ghz, dual core- I know, I know....
2 Gigs of ram.
HD Radeon 4870

I have flash 10.1.53.64
Current video drivers I believe.

32bit Windows 7

Homie, uninstall Flash and then reinstall it. Also, uninstall your drivers and then download the latest version and install them. Flash by default should use your GPU.

acid_drop

Dfg wrote: »

Homie, uninstall Flash and then reinstall it. Also, uninstall your drivers and then download the latest version and install them. Flash by default should use your GPU.

NO DICE

Dysgraphia

Reformatting ALWAYS works.

Just keep that in mind.

acid_drop

Dysgraphia wrote: »

Reformatting ALWAYS works.

Just keep that in mind.

Thing is, I did that a few months ago. Then two months later this crap started out of the blue. I have so much shit on here, it takes forever to get off and back on. Even longer seeing as how I don't have an external HDD anymore

Dysgraphia

Then just create another partition in your HD, and migrate all your data in there, and reformat the partition with your OS on it.

I've been getting a heap of flash errors too. I was setting up a network yesterday with a friend of mine, and I got installation errors on all of them.

acid_drop

Flash fuckin' blows. And has blown for years(no I'm not a a Mac Fanboi), there really needs to be a better platform to overtake it.

Shit, wasn't the Flash architecture designed for small (less than 50 image) ads and the like? Not HD video? It's been over half a decade since I was in high school, but I think I remember one of my teachers ranting about it.