flash player stutter

[menwoody]

i am beside myself with trying to get flash to run smoothly.

chrome browser, wgt website, amd athlon 64, 2g ram, geforce210.  whether or not hardware acceleration is employed, same result.  disabled as much extensions,etc. as possible.

is this a hardware problem?

Where can i find info suggesting processor hardware to maximize flash playback?

[chris.campbell]

I'm assuming you are having problems with video playback.  Could you post a link to a page that is causing you problems?  In addition, please try both of these test videos on YouTube and let us know how they perform.

Test 1

Test 2

[menwoody]

Thanks for your reply. Both videos ran perfectly, assuming Federer really

can serve that well !!! Since posting my question, I may have come up

with my problem's solution on my own.

I ran a program called Speccy that lists installed hardware, thinking I

would upgrade, and noticed the motherboard and the cpu were both at 60C.

Since the Athlon II 4000 should run flash, I figured cooling it off might

work, and

LO! At 49/46 respectively, the flash seems to run just fine. BTW, the

program giving me my best challenge is WGT.com, playing the game of golf,

and there's TONS of people there complaining about flash. Maybe it's just

a good workout, or maybe they need to have better coolers for their systems

like me. Anyway, this is a solution you might recommend for people with

stuttering issues. Check the temps!

Thanks again..Stephen

[chris.campbell]

Thanks for the update Stephen, glad you got it working.

[Guest]

I consistently see the stuttering problem on almost all flash videos recently, including all those from msnbc.com. 

The stuttering problem clearly appears to me to be related to processor resources. I have an older computer and processor, but Flash videos used to perform flawlessly until a recent upgrade. 

It's clearly either programming incompetence that broke something that used to work, or total disregard for users with older computers.  If there's now a higher minimum processor requirement than there used to be, then Adobe should have checked for that before downloading the upgrade and allowed users to keep an older version.  Otherwise, you need to rewrite your code to make it as efficient as it used to be before you broke it.  Users should not be forced to upgrade computers just to keep doing what they have always done.

Jim B

"Everything Adobe makes is either SH#T or overpriced, or both"