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August 18, 2010
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Flash Becoming More Trouble Than It Is Worth

  • August 18, 2010
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I play a lot of Flash games, including Evony. There are many people who have noticed problems with these games since the latest Flash update. So, please do not give us your standard "this must be a user error because we are perfect" answer.

Since this latest Flash player update, we've seen the following:

  1. Sometimes the GUI is half blanked out
  2. Buttons which used to take one click now require several clicks before they work
  3. The chat window pops back to the top every time someone enters new text
  4. Scrolling around sometimes takes forever or freezes up
  5. Lagging has increased exponentially

Are we all tired of Flash becoming more and more unusable? YES

As a former Flash Developer, I understand how easily Flash programs break and/or become obsolete with subsequent updates. I have become increasingly more frustrated and disillusioned by Flash and it's relevancy to the internet. As a Mac and PC user, I find it disgusting that I can no longer use my G4 to access the internet appropriately since Flash is so prominent and does not work properly on "older" Apple computers.

Please, please get it together Adobe before we all start moving on to something else. You are rapidly losing your fan base. Especially all the artists and developers that helped you popularize Flash usage on their APPLE machines.

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    Participating Frequently
    August 19, 2010

    I have to agree with chat09tails. Adobe's newest versions are increasingly more and more glitchy or incompatable. Flash 9 ran smoother than flash 10, with or without the HA enabled...

    side note to that: isn't having a video card supposed to IMPROVE graphics? It just isn't logical that turning OFF the hardware advantage would improve things...

    I just want to play games, chat, and watch videos on my computer with the same input/output speeds of regular programs, or even java. I forgot how nice java is till I gave up flash games and went to play yahoo!'s poker!

    I'd give up on flash if it wasn't on every frickin page i visited!!!!!

    August 18, 2010

    Hi, Have you tried turning off the hardware acceleration feature? Right click on any video and click on Settings, then Display Settings and Uncheck it.

    It has also been recommended to update the graphic and video drivers to the latest versions. Sometimes just turning off the H.A. takes care of the issue.

    eidnolb

    Participating Frequently
    August 18, 2010

    I could try it. However, me having to change my settings to facilitate their update does not solve the problem. The main point is not me going through half a dozen half-baked solutions to make it better. It's programming it correctly in the first place.

    August 18, 2010

    Hi, you might want to read the info on the hardware acceleration. I know your Mac is an older version, but from what I have read the hardware accleration is only working on select newer editions of Mac. Not that this was Adobe's decision, but Apple's. (I meant to include the link to that site)

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

    Many times updates are such that they can't work on older editions of PC's or Macs either, due to the newer technology.

    IE9 is getting ready to be released and it will only work on Vista and Win7, for example. Even several Anti-Virus programs are not able to run unless the computer systems meet the requirements.

    Being just a user here, I can only offer you some solutions that have helped others.

    Thanks,

    eidnolb

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