apprentice77, I do not have Comodo firewall; I actually have ESET Smart Security (NOD32 anti-virus + firewall). However, I tried uninstalling it anyway and tested a number of YouTube videos as well as speedtest.net. I can confirm that all problems, as far as I can tell, are now gone. Both Flash 10.3 and Chrome's built-in flash installation work as I expect them to. At one point I tried disabling the firewall and the problem still existed. However, every time I have tested the issue I did in fact have ESET installed; I never thought that might be causing the issue and thought it was best to always have my anti-virus and firewall installed before surfing the web. Thank you very much for finding the problem! This has been driving me absolutely crazy. I don't know what I would have done without you bringing this to my attention. As it turns out, my license for ESET expires tomorrow and I received a free copy of Kaspersky anti-virus with my recent hardware purchases (the installation of which caused this problem to appear in the first place). I guess I will be installing that now and seeing if that works any better. It's a shame, because ESET has otherwise worked flawlessly for me over the past 2 years. -Rognik/Adam PS: After this I realized that my PC might not have the most recent version of ESET Smart Security (4 instead of 5). I tried installing the newest version from their website and the problem immediately returned. I will try Kaspersky Anti-Virus + Windows Firewall (ugh) for now. Based on recent reviews of ESET Smart Security 5 it may be a good idea to switch to another security suite anyway. ... View more

Unfortunately I still haven't had the time to actually experiment with different video card arrangement (I hope you understand, I'm very busy with work and that could take a few hours and could potentially mess up my Windows configuration), but I've found some more symptoms of the problem that I'd like to mention. First of all, I'd like to correct what I said about the problem only applying to YouTube. The video player that Steam uses (for example, the video at http://store.steampowered.com/app/200260/) has virtually the same problem that YouTube does. Maybe others do as well but I haven't tested any others really. Also, I've found something else that doesn't work that shows more evidence that this really isn't a video card/driver problem. I have problems with the site http://www.speedtest.net/, which also runs off of Flash. When I reach the portion of the test that measures my download speed, I will frequently get the message "Download Test Error: Download test returned an error while trying to read the download file." Sometimes the test works well, however, and http://pingtest.net/ shows excellent ping and no packet loss every time I try it. It seems like files that I am downloading through Flash are becoming corrupted. Perhaps this is a networking problem? Some problem with my network driver and Flash's FTP? Is there another way to test for this? -Rognik/Adam ... View more

kicsitian_real's initial experience with Flash 10.3 sounds consistent with mine, and disabling PepperFlash didn't help me. Did you actually fix the playback issues or just disable the warning? I do get a warning for using 10.3.183.25, by the way. That is probably something Google should change. I'm sticking with 10.3.183.25 for now. Although I get the video freeze with it, it's less annoying than the awful skipping simply because I don't totally lose my place in the video. ... View more

Chris, First of all, I appreciate your efforts and thank you for your time. If it helps, I have discovered a shortcut for determining if each video has a problem. I can actually just pause the video, let it buffer, and try skipping to the end. If the end of the video is corrupt (green, usually), I reload the buffer (by switching quality back and forth). If the end is not corrupt, then the video is always good to watch. "Anything else you should be aware of?" Maybe? I have had a little bit of (minor) trouble with the networking on this motherboard. First of all, on a fresh install of Windows it actually can't connect to the internet until I install the driver included on the CD ("Intel PROset for Windows Device Manager, and advanced networking services"). I then used the internet to update the network driver to its latest version. Secondly, I once installed the "ASUS AI Suite II" from the install disk, and that (specifically iControl, which is terrible and many people have problems with) really messed up my networking again until I disabled it. I also reinstalled Windows after that and have not touched the AI Suite since. This does make me wonder if it is a network issue, but things like large downloads and online games seem to work fine. I do have the two video cards in my system, but no other ones. Moving those around is a pain and can really upset Windows, but I can probably try swapping them this weekend. I already tried disabling CrossFireX which should have the same effect as removing one of the cards. Using the built in GPU also sounds like a pain for several reasons but I may try that this weekend as well. And again, I understand that we're mostly just trying to narrow down potential problems, but the cards handle much more stressful activities easily. Oh, and thank you MrX1980, I'll see if updating directx 9 helps. Edit: Updated directx9 with the link you provided, restarted, and the problem still exists. -Rognik/Adam ... View more

The bug report is 3335102. I included as much information as I could- I apologize if it is too much. Because it might have something to do with a hardware driver I included a lot of information about my system. -Rognik/Adam ... View more

Chris and Pat, I am currently using the latest drivers, directly downloaded from the ATI website, as suggested to me by their auto-detecting driver download. Here is the information it shows me: Driver Packaging Version 8.982-120727a-145524C-ATI Catalyst Version 12.8 Provider Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 2D Driver Version 8.01.01.1253 2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000 Direct3D Version 9.14.10.0924 OpenGL Version 6.14.10.11762 Catalyst Control Center Version 2012.0806.1213.19931 Previously I was using the version from my install CD, updated to the latest version through its software update feature. The problem exists either way. Also note that my system can handle the latest games perfectly at maximum settings; if I had video driver issues I doubt this would be possible. After downgrading to Flash 10.3, the problem still exists but behaves differently. Rather than strange colors and skipping, the video image simply freezes and video sound stops or has occasional crackling/distorted snippets. The timer for the video keeps progressing at a normal rate. I'm certainly no expert, but this really doesn't seem like a driver issue to me. It seems more like a portion of the video buffer is becoming corrupted in memory and just won't play. Anyway, at least I'm not so alone anymore. This is a very strange issue that seems to be very rare. -Rognik/Adam ... View more

Thank you for your response Chris. You're probably right about installing the new version of Flash being coincidental. I just reinstalled Windows 7 again and the problem is occuring in Chrome without the plugin, albeit less frequently. The problem happened in IE and Firefox as well, so it can't just be a problem with Chrome's version, I would think. I can't yet verify that the version is different when I change versions in Chrome because I haven't installed the plugin again yet. I also tried installing the latest BIOS, chipset, LAN, and USB drivers on my motherboard from http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/SABERTOOTH_Z77/#download, to no avail. I do get an error when I try to install the latest "Intel Graphics Accelerator" driver, but it seems like my AMD drivers should supersede that anyway. Yes, that screenshot is with hardware acceleration disabled. I should perhaps mention that the video flickers between green and odd, distorted patterns; the crackling sound I mentioned seems to be tiny, distorted snippets of the video's actual audio. Also, when I skip to another position in the video, if it is a position where the video was working when I watched it, the video works well again. However, if I skip to a position in the video where it was broken, it is broken again. Refreshing the page is generally the only solution. Finally, the video will also stop to buffer sometimes, and then just restart from the last position buffering started at (either the beginning or a position I skipped to previously). If it is any help at all, I did manage to record an instance of the problem with FRAPS. Oddly, this time the entire video turned grey. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=extt9jyv6wA All in all, it seems like portions of the video buffer are becoming corrupt. YouTube remains the only thing I have these issues with; for example, online games and other video sites seem to have no issues. I will try reverting my Flash Player to a previous version to see if this helps, and try to get back to you tomorrow. The problem sometimes happens infrequently enough that I need to watch 20 minutes or so of video before it occurs. -Rognik/Adam ... View more

I am still having the same problem after attempting every solution I can think of. Here's some more information that I've seen requested on this forum: Information from http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html All of the text is in red. Your Flash Player Version: 11.3.31.232 [with red arrow pointing left here] Your OS: Windows 7 (32-bit) [it is actually 64 bit] Your Browser: Google Chrome [IE has the same problem, though] Reference URL: Nearly every YouTube video that isn't in HTML5 has had this issue, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJXg6fcUpGY has been the worst so far. Screenshot: http://imageshack.us/a/img145/3013/greenvideo.png (This is the video I've linked above, after about 5 attempts at watching it.) What you can't see/hear in the picture: crackling noises (like the audio is sped up 100x) and it skipping forward in about 30 second increments. dxdiag info: http://www.scribd.com/doc/105963896/DxDiag Again, any help will be appreciated. I'm really pulling my hair out over this. ... View more