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May 28, 2014
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Flash CS4 crashes when publishing big SWF that previously were working fine

  • May 28, 2014
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Hi all,

This is driving me crazy, I tried looking into Adobe FAQs and other places inside this site but cant find a good solution to this, in fact I found people asking the same issue. The fact is Im making a game that after being published is 7Mb SWF, this was working great and in fact I havent made any critical change there, only updated a text field with a typo (no code), then when I tried to publish it crashed (other big games I made are making Flash crash too), and crashes the same when hitting CTRL+ENTER or just selecting File>>Publish or File>>Publish settings>>Publish, I reinstalled the whole CS4 6 or 7 times and even got a tool from here to uninstall the player (I thought it uninstalled the player used from IDE but its apparently the browser plugin) asuming the issue could be there but still keeps crashing after I re-install it, oddly small FLA files can be published, I looked into CS5 faqs and I have seen they can set the cache size there but I cant find in CS4, and Im unsure if is due to that but just my guess after all I read about this, could someone help me please? Thanks a lot beforehand, I have been fighting this for 4 days almost sleepless


Im only using as2 code in these projects I meantioned, and I have Windows Vista on this machine, just if this helps to solve it, again, thanks for any clue



Edit: Im unsure if this is the right section or not, please receive my apologies if its wrong place as maybe this is intended for only code doubts but I couldnt find the right section to ask it so please move it to the appropiate place when you can and Im sorry for the trouble

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Correct answer kglad

I havent been able to try my friends cs5 here, but still I know that wont help fixing the issue, just want to be sur eif that makes cs5 crash too.

And about resetting preferences, I tried several times but the dialog you mentioned never arised, how is that triggered? I mean I press and hold CTRL+ALT+SHiFT the 3 at the same time when the Flash CS4 red banner appears I mean as its loading and I dont release until its fully loaded, is that the right time and procedure to reset preferences? because as said I never launched the dialog and my preferences are kept always and maybe as you said in first place that could fix this.


Re-create preferences

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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May 29, 2014

if everything works when using smaller swfs you may have just encountered a problem limitation in the amount of ram you have (or more likely the amount of your ram flash pro cs4 can use).

if so the only work-around is to break your game into several chunks that can be laded into a main chunk.

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    roninpspAuthor
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    May 29, 2014

    Thanks for posting about this, but the fact is these projects were working just 3 days ago and no media was added, no change was made, only corrected a text in one of them but the others remain so something changed in the configuration inside the IDE somewhere or the memory allowed to it or something like that

    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
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    May 29, 2014

    you can try resetting your preferences: hold down shfit-ctrl-alt while starting cs4.  you'll see a confirmation dialog if successfully done.

    if resetting fails, uninstall, clean and reinstall per, Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6

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