Windows 7 forum: Flash Player 11 crashes on ALL browsers

That is something new...where do I find the Flash hardware acceleration?
I typed it into my help and search engine and nothing came back

Is it located somewhere else ?

It's not in any known Windows help and search engine I know of.

It's the first thing to try when you see Flash crash today.
Bob

Got it right here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html

That allows you to disable the hardware acceleration

But one can MORE EASILY actually:

1) go to your e-mail
2) choose a letter that has a link to any You Tube.com video
3) when that video comes up right click on the video itself and
4) choose settings
5) uncheck the "enable hardware acceleration"
6) PROBLEM CURED !!!!!!!!

Thanks a Jillion Bob... I Finally have control over my browsers now !!
What a BIG favor you have done for me !! Thanks for guiding me to the ONLY solution I have found after weeks of trying !...I am now breathing ALOT easier....

Will send you other questions...on the forum....about other issues in a while on other topics.

Doctor of Doom ---> Doctor of a Bright New Shiny World !!!!!

There are other ways to tackle this if you want to get hardware acceleration working such as updating and sometimes rolling back video and audio drivers but that's ASKING TOO MUCH today.

My thought is we have reached a point where these PCs are "appliances."

Would you like some toast?
Bob

PS. Thanks again for the update.

Bob,

It was working for a while...with the hardware acceleration disabled.
I even poured myself a Rum and coke to celebrate...then it crashed while I was pouring....

I am nearly ready to chuck this Laptop int the "bin of antiquity" but it is only 2 years old.

Maybe I just need a new graphics card or better yet a new mother board...what do you think ?

These Flash players are simply getting too "Flashy!"

Most of us do not play these kiddies games that require faster graphics...
You gotta wonder why they roce the new flash players on us knowing fully well they will knock our computers down...

Chrome has that internal Flash player but as I read you disabled that. But if it continues in Chrome, here's the deeper article on that.

http://www.howtogeek.com/103292/how-to-fix-shockwave-flash-crashes-in-google-chrome/

In the future, make my Rum and Coke a double to save trips to the kitchen.

-> And don't tell me what "it" is. That could take away all my bad guesswork.
Bob

Bob I am grateful for the steer to the "How to Geek" website.

Although my Web browser still crashes despite even updating my Nvidia 9600M graphics card and making all the changes every one has ever suggested..the problem still persists.

But..what you said about Adobe not giving a hoot about any of this...it sort of leaves me and ALOT of other countless people out of the loop now that our browsers can no longer work...this is a very lonely problem to have...since no one knows how to really repair the problem....

I have now tried every work around available.
I guess I need a new operating system or graphics card

Thanks anyway for all your suggestions...

Other than Chrome I found this setting to really help.

Wish I could offer more ideas but here it's solid. Works fine.
Bob

You are not alone. I have the same problem here. It's crazy because I have thought the problem is rooted to the hardware change, which I already done in upgrading RAM from 2Gig to 4Gig. Now, I notice the update that I did at the same time on Flash Player is guilty.
My laptop is also 2 years old and graphic card as yours, Nvidia 9600M. To me it's more harmful and upsetting, because I have to deal with the "Windows Blue Screen" in some cases (not always), which forces me to restart the Windows totally.

However, after disabling the "hardware acceleration" the problem seems to be eliminated. I hope It works in longer run as well; just one hour without crash has passed. I'm hopeful though.

Anyway, I hope you could found a way out by now. And I thank you for spelling out the problem; now, I feel somebody was as miserable and frustrated as I was when I encountered the crashes. Our similar emotion certainly is not able to solve the bloody problem, it gives us courage to curse the Adobe for this annoyance more credibly .