Captivate 3 and Flash Player and Windows 10

[ronaldk89335336]

I have a 2007 edition of Captivate. I've installed a new hard drive and upgraded to Windows 10. In reinstalling Captivate 3 it won't recognize the current version of Flash. I've checked to make sure Active X filtering is off and the Flash add-on is enabled. It still won't allow a load.

[Lilybiri]

Only Captivate 9 is approved officially for Win10, that is a first problem. I even doubt running it in compatibility mode will work. Using a recent OS with a 10 year old version of an app is asking for issues. For the Flash player you'll have to find a very old version of it as well.

Free download Adobe Flash Player old versions

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

I wanted to make a video about me trying to use Macromedia Captivate 1.0. I could not get it to run at all because of the incompatibility between Windows 10 with older copies of Flash.

My workaround was to create a Windows XP virtual machine using VirtualBox. I had an old copy of XP laying around so I used that as my virtual operating system. Next, I installed an old copy of Flash Player. My guess would be that you would need to get your hands on Flash Player version 10 for Internet Explorer or thereabouts.

Within the virtual machine, you should have no problem installing Cp3.

[RodWard]

RE: the Flash version issues with earlier Captivate versions...

I think you will find that the root of the problem with any Captivate version prior to Cp5 is that the app wasn't coded to allow for Flash versions beyond a certain number. 

I remember first experiencing this issue with Captivate 4 where an update to the app was required before it would work with the latest FlashPlayer version of the time (I think it might have been FlashPlayer 10.)

If that was true of Captivate 4, it would not have been any better with earlier versions of the same app.  What are we up to now, FlashPlayer 20 something?

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

I think we're up to version 24 or something. I hope ronaldk89335336 only wants to run Cp3 as an experiment or something.

[RodWard]

He may be able to get CP3 to run, but without a compatible Flash Player he'll never get it to publish anything or preview anything.

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

Like I mentioned I was able to get Cp1.0 to run in a virtual PC with old operating system and old Flash player. That was the only way to get it to work on a modern PC.