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DonClivo
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June 5, 2018
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  • June 5, 2018
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when i open a tab in my evony war game everything works well but when i open a 2nd tab the first one closes - whys that - for years i could have as many tabs open as i wished yet 2 day ago this problem occured

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    _maria_
    _maria_
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    June 5, 2018

    In order to provide assistance, please provide the following information

    • Operating system version
    • Web browser and version
    • Flash Player version
    • Explain your problem in step-by-step detail if possible
    • A direct link to a web page that demonstrates the problem
    • If you get error messages, please provide a screenshot
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    DonClivoAuthor
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    June 5, 2018

    Hi Maria and thank you for responding to my problem.

    my browser is google chrome and the flash player is installed automatically by them with auto update so its the latest flash available. That said the same problem i have outlined below also occurs on Firefox - i am convinced it is a problem with Flash and because i have never had a problem before I am strongly in favour of a recent flash update that is causing my problems.

    Generally speaking my computer is working well but when i play a war game known as evony ( when flash is required ) it is the only time i am now experiencing problems. I have played evony for some 7 years with no problems at all but in the past couple of days my problem is this ( excluding evony I can open as many tabs as I like such as sky news,e-mails, city Forex etc and they all stay open regardless of the number of times that i switch from one tab to another )

    1) In the evony war game it is common for players to have more than 1 account so account No 1 you are playing is lets say Lord A in account 2 you are playing as Lord 2 etc etc .I only have 7 accounts but some players have hundreds. 

    2) When i wish to play I put in the user name and p/w of the account i wish to play and the game comes up and a tab appears which is in relation to that game - at this point everything is working perfectly normally and i can play the game as designed.

    3) if whilst the first Lord is still playing I wish to open a 2nd acc ( Lord b ) then i can and a 2nd tab appears and i can play that game in lord b as normal BUT by opening Lord b ,Lord A game stops working - the tab is still there but the game is dead/frozen.

    4) If I open a third tab for a third lord/game then the 2nd one will stop - etc etc if i then refresh tab 1 it will start to work but tabs 2 and 3 are now dead - in other words i can only play on 1 tab/account at a time

    I have set the capacity of flash to max but it makes no difference.

    It is not an evony problem - no one else playing has this problem  - just unlucky me

    I have been advised by an IT guy to get rid of my current version of Flash and reinstall an older version but i am not convinced this is the way forward since i would expect the latest version/updates of flash to be an improvement over older versions and not for it to create these sort of problems so your assistance in resolving my problem would be well received.

    Thank you in anticipation of your help

    Kind Regards

     CLIVE

    _maria_
    _maria_
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    June 5, 2018

    Hi Clive,


    Thank you for the detailed reply. 

    What operating system is this on?

    The most recent version of Flash Player, 27.0.0.171, was released on May 8...almost 1 month ago.  You indicate this behaviour started within the last several days.  While it's possible this is Flash related, one would assume it would have started sooner than a few days ago.  Looking at the Chrome release schedule (Chrome Platform Status ), the most recent version of Chrome was released a week ago.  And the most recent version of Firefox was released May 9 (Firefox Release Calendar - MozillaWiki​)

    You can certainly try installing the previous version of Flash Player (29.0.0.140) to see if there is a difference in behaviour.  Previous versions are posted at Archived Adobe Flash Player versions​.  Here's the link for Flash Player 29.0.0.140​.  It's a fairly large zip file.  After you download the file, uncompress it and navigate into the folder '29_0_r0_140'.  Within this folder, you'll want the following two installers:

    • PPAPI for Chrome: flashplayer29_0r0_140_winpep.exe
    • NPAPI for Firefox: flashplayer29_0r0_140_win.exe

    Since Google embeds Flash Player in Chrome it always launches the most recent version, and, you'll need to replace the embedded version with the version you installed to ensure it launches the previous version, instead of the latest version. To use a previous version of Flash, do the following (this is for Windows, if you have Mac, I can provide Mac instructions):

    1. Launch Chrome and navigate to chrome://flash
    2. Locate the Flash Plugin path (e.g. C:\Users\labuser\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\PepperFlash\29.0.0.171\pepflashplayer.dll)
    3. Close Chrome
    4. Launch File Explorer and navigate to the directory containing the pepflashplayer.dll
    5. Rename pepflashplayer.dll to something like pepflashplayer_29.0.0.170.dll
    6. Go to C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash, copy pepflashplayer64_29_0_0_140.dll and paste it into the Flash Plugin path (from step 2 above)
      • This is for 64-bit OS, if you have 32-bit OS, it would be pepflashplaye32_29_0_0_140.dll
    7. Rename the file from pepflashplayer_29.0.0.170.dll to pepflashplayer.dll
    8. Launch Chrome

    If you go back to chrome://flash it'll continue to report as 29.0.0.171, but if you go to https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html and click the Check Now button it'll report 29.0.0.140 (you may need to enable Flash on this site), or if you right-click on Flash content it'll also report 29.0.01.40

    To revert to the latest version of Flash, delete the file you copied in step 6, then undo step 5.

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    Maria

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