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Anyone having issues with Flash 11.3.300.257 crashing your PC?


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Just built a new PC and trying to troubleshoot a crashing problem. Is anyone out there having issues with any browser crashing using the current Flash version 11.3.300.257? To be more specific, have you experienced a crash that has actually lead to your PC restarting or a BSOD? Any errors in your event logs related to the crash?

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No issues for me on several machines using with Firefox mainly. I have had Chrome cause BSOD, but I don't remember it being from Flash. I think it was just after I opened it.

You might try prating driver or turn off hardware acceleration.

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Try disabling Hardware Acceleration. I haven't personally had any issues with this version, but I've seen one case that was fixed by disabling that.

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Update to the latest version (11.3.300.262), you should always stay current if possible. However I've had no issues with Flash 11.3 crashing

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Try disabling Hardware Acceleration. I haven't personally had any issues with this version, but I've seen one case that was fixed by disabling that.

Thats actually what I'm doing now. Also stress testing the system running 5 instances of M.A.M.E to peg the CPU @ 100%. I was thinking its a hardware problem, but it didn't crash till I opened IE and played a video on YT. It had been on 100% usage for quite a while and CPU never got above 47C. Stupid Asus hardware monitor doesn't readout the intergrated GPU temp though :angry: If I can use M.A.M.E to emulate 5 different arcade machines at once without a problem, A damn flash video shouldn't be taxing the hardware much.

Update to the latest version (11.3.300.262), you should always stay current if possible. However I've had no issues with Flash 11.3 crashing

.262 is only for Mozilla, Opera. IE still on .257. It did originally crash with FF on .257, but haven't re-installed FF yet. I figured since it happened in IE, it wasn't browser specific.

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That version (11.3.300.257) of flash did crash, and people were posting about it / complaining about it on the Adobe flash FB site. Because most of them play games on the FB site (and it kept crashing (since they were using Firefox).

Thats why 11.3.300.262 came out. And why the version for IE is still the old version (11.3.300.257). It didnt crash like it did in FF.

Altho, the latest version for FF still crashes on some sites (its just as bad as 11.3.300.257). This was / is because of the new protected mode flash uses for FF. There was a workaround (disable it under the syswow64/macromedia/flash folder in x64 - the mms.cfg file). But that was the point of releasing the new version (for security or something). If you disable it, there's no security

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That version for flash did crash, and people were posting about it / complaining about it on the Adobe flash FB site. Thats why 11.3.300.262 came out. And why the version for IE is still the old version (1.3.300.257). Altho, the latest version for FF still crashes on some sites (its just as bad as 11.3.300.257). This was because of the new protected mode flash uses for FF. There was a workround (disable it under the syswow64/macromedia/flash folder in x64 - the mms.cfg file). But that was the point of releasing the new version (for security or something)

Did any of the crashing result in restarts or BSODS? I thought it was not possible for the video driver or something like flash to bring down an O.S. since Vista?

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No, AFAIK.. All it did was crash firefox. When you played videos on sites like Youtube. On this computer, FF crashed (when flash 11.3.300.257 was installed), when I quit it. But it didnt crash the whole system

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Chrome is dealing with it mush better than IE9 and FF, but I'm noticing CPU spiking and skipping/freezing of videos when running my mouse over the video thumbnails up top and on the side. This is more pronounced with hardware acceleration enabled, but still present with it disabled. Chrome doesn't skip/freeze, but does spike CPU.

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.262 is only for Mozilla, Opera. IE still on .257. It did originally crash with FF on .257, but haven't re-installed FF yet. I figured since it happened in IE, it wasn't browser specific.

Considering that I use Chrome, that can't be true.

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Have you tried updating to 11.3.300.265 (dated today)? Supposedly fixes some more stability issues along with some audio bugs.

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Asus PC monitor alerted me to an abnormally low vcore voltage. I think between the kernel power crash error in Windows 8 and video driver crashes in both OS's, I'm dealing with a PSU issue. Already started the RMA processed.

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My fiances laptop had issues with flash not so long ago but it was a different problem over every browser. IE crashed and froze the laptop, FF crashed and chrome caused BSOD. The driver got rolled back to the previous one then reinstalled and all the previous issues vanished. Doesn't make sense

From what I can remember it was the version you posted.

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My fiances laptop had issues with flash not so long ago but it was a different problem over every browser. IE crashed and froze the laptop, FF crashed and chrome caused BSOD. The driver got rolled back to the previous one then reinstalled and all the previous issues vanished. Doesn't make sense

From what I can remember it was the version you posted.

If all of the browsers crash, this can be caused by buggy , or stuffed / dodgy toolbars / addons. That you've installed on the system

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If all of the browsers crash, this can be caused by buggy , or stuffed / dodgy toolbars / addons. That you've installed on the system

Yeah true but as I said update equalled problems from the get go, reinstalled and everything worked. It made no sense but that was the only change made.

And there were on toolbars/ any other crap, luckily she knows better. :)

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