Flash player 10.1 slower than 10

Report · Aug 31, 2010

At least, that's how it is on my secondary computers. On my Dell Inspiron B120, flash 10.1 latest is like a train wreck when it comes to playing Youtube videos in full screen. Disabling hardware acceleration helped a little, but this shouldn't be happening as I uninstalled 10.1 and installed an archived version of Flash 10 with much better playback AND with h/w acceleration enabled. The laptop uses XP SP3 and Firefox.

Simply put, Flash 10.1 feels a lot slower than 10 on my Dell laptop (1.4 GHz celeron-M, intel 915g video, 512 mb ram)

And there's another odd but minor problem I seem to be having with is flash animations on my main computer and any other computer/laptop I have using Flash 10.1. I get this alternating 'lag' every few seconds; it's like the computer is dropping frames because the CPU can't keep up. I could completely understand this, but this is happening on practically any flash animation I throw at the computer. I just tested a flash movie (SWF format) on my main computer (2.8 GHz AMD Athlon x2 240; 2 gb ram, Windows 7 x64, Firefox) and I get this irritating choppy lag here and there. Again, with the previous Flash version 10, I did NOT have this problem AT ALL. Everything was silky smooth; the only benefit I'm getting from Flash 10.1 is x264 hardware acceleration for my ATI Radeon 4200 HD. Before anyone asks, all of my computers were using the latest flash version AND video drivers prior to these tests.

I am VERY frustrated with these problems as I've posted a similar thread twice now in the past. No one seems to be answering or helping me with this; Those that do reply simply claim that they're having the same problem.

Adobe, please look into this problem. Eventually Youtube and several other sites will force me to upgrade my laptop to Flash 10.1.

Report · Sep 01, 2010

I just tested Flash Player 10 against the new 10.1 on an even older laptop; specs are a P4 @ 2 GHz, 256 mb ram, and a Geforce 4 440 go video card.

10 seems to allow for h/w acceleration and a perfect frame rate in full screen; Using 10.1 makes h/w acceleration extremely choppy and blocky looking like it's not even enabled or sends me to a blank, white screen when entering full screen.

There is clearly something wrong with 10.1, at least on older hardware.

Please Adobe, respond to this thread!!! I don't have the money to buy a new laptop because something was coded poorly in 10.1.

Report · Sep 02, 2010

Hi, i have same exact problem, silky smooth on other version and since i downloaded the 10.1 im thinking of throwing my computer in the wall. 1 solution would be for Adobe to put the 10 version back on download so we can have a smooth computer till they correct that problem!!!

Report · Sep 03, 2010

There are archived versions of Flash 10 and earlier on the site; just type in "Flash player 10 archive" and it should be the first link on the Google search page.

That's what I'm using on most of my machines until (and if) I can find a solution to this problem.

Report · Sep 02, 2010

Hi, This site has info for the hardware acceleration:

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

Also system requirements in general:

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/

In addition to turning off the hardware acceleration, it is recommended to update the graphic and video drivers to the latest versions. If all of that has been done and has not solved your problem, then perhaps something else is conflicting.

Sometimes it is overlooked that the Adobe Flash Player is a browser plugin and works with the Flash Player files that are Installed into your Flash folder. Any and I stress Any add on, BHO, ActiveX Control, helpers that are in the browser affects that browser in a positive way or a negative way. And as such it can conflict with the Shockwave Flash Object, ActiveX Control that is Installed for Flash Player. Almost all Anti-Virus/Spyware programs will Install their add ons as well into the browser and many do conflict with that SWO. Just something to consider as well as users Update and Install new programs and those add ons may not have conflicted with vs 10.0, but do with 10.1.

I'm not saying the problems you are having concern these things, but just that they could.

I do hope you find a solution.

Thanks,

eidnolb

Report · Sep 03, 2010

I appreciate your response eidnolb, and though I know you're trying to be helpful, I've already tried every suggestion you listed.

My point is I shouldn't have to disable h/w acceleration and deal with choppy video in the newest flash version just because Adobe is more focused on adding h264/x264 video acceleration to newer machines. This shouldn't be affected at all. Flash 10.1 should render videos in the same mode that Flash 10 does if the PC does not support x264 acceleration, but instead, we get this hideous 'nearest-neighbor' resized software accelerated video playback if we enter full screen. It totally blows my mind. Why Flash 10.1 exhibits this problem and why 10 doesn't is just beyond me.

It's a problem THEY CAN fix. They just choose not to. Those of us with older machines are screwed; I'm sure happy my main computer is recent...

Report · Sep 10, 2010

Has Adobe fixed the problems with version 10,1,82,76 of flash player ?

I compared it and found nothing but problems.

I then uninstalled 10,1,82,76 and rolled back to 10,0,12,36 which works fine on Firefox and Opera but I can't install 10,0,12,36 on Exploer or Chrome

it keeps telling me there is a new version even when I try to install it from local drive with a archived version.

With all the complaints about 10,1,82,76 and the lack of response from Adobe on any fixes I will not be using Adobe auto updates until I let some

other poor guinea pigs suffer all the bugs and problems first.

You would expect a large company to have better development and testing before imposing buggy upgardes on us.

Report · Sep 10, 2010

I agree, seems i'm not the only one have problems whit new version. hope 10.2 could be better.

Thank God i'm using Firefox.

Report · Sep 29, 2010

I have a Acer Revo and I get choppy video with 10.1 too!! Not happy!

Specs:

PC: Acer AspireRevo AR3610-U9022 Mini Desktop PC - Intel Atom 330 1.6GHz, 2GB DDR2, 160GB HDD, 802.11b/g/n, NVIDIA ION, HDMI, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

TV: Sony KDL46W5150 BRAVIA W Series 46" LCD HDTV - 1080p, 1920x1080, 100000:1 Dynamic, 3800:1 Native, 16:9, 120Hz, 4x HDMI

When I updated to the newest version all online content was unwatchable. Firefox was flickering so bad I couldn’t even stop it. When it flickers it looks like I lose video output because my TV shows the input screen on-off-on-off etc. Chrome would play but would be choppy every 2-3 seconds. I switched back to the older version and its fine now. There is something wrong with the update and being forced to use Flash for online content is enough, but not being able to get this fixed is ridiculous.!! ADOBE FIX THIS!!! My CPU supports hardware acceleration so I should have to shut this off..