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KidSister33
KidSister33
Inspiring
August 24, 2014
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BSOD while playing Shockwave Games Installed on my pc

  • August 24, 2014
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I get Blue Screen of Death every time I play anything related to Flash Player... sometimes getting BSOD while trying to watch video on Yahoo.

I went to Adobe website and right clicked while the test video showed...and unchecked hardware acceleration. I did this for both IE and Firefox browsers.  ( and had to try several times! cause test is too fast.) So far this has stopped the crashing, although some games just freeze.  Have not checked to see if can now watch NBC videos yet.

But still getting BSOD from installed games.

I have the latest drivers for my video card... I need to stop hardware acceleration while playing Shockwave Games on my PC - there is no settings option in the Flash Player PC control panel to uncheck the hardware acceleration. 

I am using Window 07 and NVIDIA Geforce 340.52 / AMD Phenom II x4 955

Seems to me that the flash player local PC control center would be greatly benefited by having option tab (in advanced) to stop hardware acceleration while running installed games.

Also I had to hunt for the PC control center in the first place.  So easy to find in XP, but made sense in the system and security area of 07.

I looked for a way to adjust the hardware acceleration from the NVIDIA control panel. The only thing I found remotely connected to hardware acceleration was PhysX configuration

I set PhysX from auto-select to using the graphics card vs the CPU.  Will see if that makes any difference.

Otherwise how would I disable hardware acceleration programmatically??? anyone?

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Correct answer KidSister33

So far no more Blue screen while running Flash Player based videos or game in Internet Explorer.

Still having BSOD using Pale Moon, although Pat Willener wrote in another thread,

Hardware Acceleration Problems with Pale Moon

"Firefox does no longer provide a 64-bit version.  However, Firefox-based 64-bit browsers like Waterfox or Pale Moon run perfectly fine with the 64-bit plugin."

After going into my NVIDIA control panel and setting PhysX from auto-select to using the graphics card vs the CPU, The games using flashplayer that are installed on my PC seem to be almost working correctly.  NO PC crashes, but games running Flash Player will stop responding and crash.

BTW, the BSOD started affecting every single game play after the last Flash Player update. Now that I have changed the PhysX settings to use the video card only, the problem seems to be fixed at the moment.

Any more advice, especially from Pat would be appreciated.

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KidSister33
KidSister33Author
Inspiring
August 25, 2014

STILL BSOD!!! After I unchecked hardware acceleration (right clicked on flashplayer video and unchecked), blue screen of death still occurs.

Tried to play a simple online flash player game and still got blue screen... only took longer to occur.
So no matter what I do, my PC crashes due to flash player.

Maybe someone could just suggest a different video card or motherboard/CPU that actually works?

Thought someone might have bothered to write some kind of reply by now... ?????

This is why I dislike having to join some community versus actually being able to email real technical support.

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”  - Douglas Adams.

KidSister33
KidSister33Author
Inspiring
August 25, 2014

Jeromie Clark at another thread where I posted this same problem wrote, "We don't support 64-bit Firefox.  Run the mainstream, Mozilla supported 32-bit Firefox and see if that resolves the stability issue.  If not, make sure your video drivers are current."

This is my reply from there.  (Re: Green Screen Problems? Simple permanent fix here)

"If not, make sure your video drivers are current."

FIRST THING I WROTE: I have the latest video drivers for my video card.  - In fact had just updated the drivers.

So if someone writes that they have the latest drivers for their video card - they are too stupid to know what they are talking about?

or do you not read what people write?  Just kindly wondering.

You do not support 64 bit Firefox... hmm. And that I should use regular 32 bit Mozilla...

Okay I will make this more clear. I unchecked the stop acceleration in both IE and Firefox.

and IE and Firefox had (at the time) stopped the crashing of videos and browser games

My main problem now was preventing BSOD while playing games installed on my PC. You did not address my main question.

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Since writing that question in the other thread, I have changed the PhysX configuration and the Blue Screen still occurred in Pale Moon even though

Hardware acceleration was unchecked.

I will re-test IE -----  but would have to reinstall Mozilla 32 (Firefox's new GUI is confusing. Pale Moon still uses the older, easier to use GUI.)
If IE continues to not crash now that the hardware acceleration is unchecked, then will be forced to use IE for games and video

I will re-test game playing from my PC after changing the PhysX configuration on my NVidia card and post again after testing.

Thanks...

P.S. However, my brother uses Pale Moon exclusively on his PC - no problem with games, video crashes, etc. I use his PC and Pale Moon and the same flashplayer games do not crash. His only difference is a different NVIDIA card. If I still have problems - will look for another video card.

KidSister33
KidSister33AuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
August 25, 2014

So far no more Blue screen while running Flash Player based videos or game in Internet Explorer.

Still having BSOD using Pale Moon, although Pat Willener wrote in another thread,

Hardware Acceleration Problems with Pale Moon

"Firefox does no longer provide a 64-bit version.  However, Firefox-based 64-bit browsers like Waterfox or Pale Moon run perfectly fine with the 64-bit plugin."

After going into my NVIDIA control panel and setting PhysX from auto-select to using the graphics card vs the CPU, The games using flashplayer that are installed on my PC seem to be almost working correctly.  NO PC crashes, but games running Flash Player will stop responding and crash.

BTW, the BSOD started affecting every single game play after the last Flash Player update. Now that I have changed the PhysX settings to use the video card only, the problem seems to be fixed at the moment.

Any more advice, especially from Pat would be appreciated.

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