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Wow, nothing like bumbing a year old post, but I'm having the exact same problems with a Kiosk I'm troubleshooting right now.
During development I was working on Windows 7 and saw no problems. Once the fullscreen flash projector was put on the Kiosk machine running WinXP it would randomly freeze. Sometimes it would run perfectly fine through out an evening until the next morning and sometimes it would freeze 5 minutes after the machine was turned on. The same thing as other people report, it seems to actually be running the program, but the on screen animation has frozen. Bringing the projector out of fullscreen mode with ctrl-F or esc will "fix" the problem and the animation will start back up, you can then go back into fullscreen mode, but it will freeze again after a random period of time.
I probably have a bit of a unique kiosk setup that forces me to run WinXP and hardware acceleration, so that suggested fix won't work for me. My kiosk is running 4 widscreen monitors in a row as two side by side spanned desktops. I require hardware acceleration in order to properly run the Nvidia control panel which allows the machine to have spanned desktops. The machine is a quite powerful machine with a 3Ghz Dual Core processor, 2 Gigs of RAM and dual Nvidia Geforce cards.
I am building the projectors using the latest flash player 10.0 r42 and the hardware acceleration is set to none on my publish settings. The application was programmed in AS3 and authored using Flash CS4.
Another observation based on my unique layout, I have two projectors running at once, one fullscreen on each spanned desktop. Only the projector that has focus seems to be freezing. The 2nd projector that does not have the systems focus will continue running normally. Also, possibly by co-incidence it seems to freeze when not being used, but based on how random the freezing is that may just be luck so far.
Unfortunately I don't have easy access to the Kiosk so I am trying to test on a VMware virtual machine and I am able to recreate the screen freezing effect.
Any more ideas or solutions out there?
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I'm having the same problem.
The Flash .exe projector freezes after a random amount of time (minutes, hours or days) when running full screen. If you press the escape key to knock it out of full screen it will start running again. I have yet to check this behaviour in a mac projector file (.app)
The movie i'm displaying is a simple 30 frame loop - the only code on it is the full screen and scaling code. This film works fine when published with CS3, when published in CS4 i get the problems described above.
The movie is an Actionscript 2.0 movie and this is the only code in it:
onClipEvent (load) {
Mouse.hide();
fscommand("allowscale", "false");
fscommand("fullscreen", "true");
_visible = false;
}
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Thanks for the sample code; I'm looking in this issue.
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I left the animation on over night and it is still playing. I'm unable to reproduce this issue on the latest flash player build. If someone can post reproducible media somewhere I can check it out.
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I did fix this problem by lowering (I was not able to disable in my specific case) the hardware acceleration slider on the graphics card troubleshooting tab.
Thanks for looking into this IHelpU, I will post my projector files that would freeze randomly in Windows XP. I'll send you a private message with their location.
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The animations appear to no longer freeze with the latest beta release. You can try it here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
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I am having the same freezing issue and would like to test with the latest beta flash player, but there is no flash projector content player available on Adobe labs. Any ideas?
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Same problem! Does everyone have Nvidia? I see a lot of that when googleing
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Nvidia..
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Oi...this really is a lingering problem. I'm seeing the same thing on Win XP 32 AND 64 with nVidia graphics cards.
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Fun, fun fun. I ran into this again, but with Windows 7 64bit on an Nvidia ION platform. This time it would freeze almost instantly upon entering fullscreen. For some reason in this case (probably the ION platform) I could not access the hardware acceleration slider in the graphics card troubleshooting panel, it was grayed out. So I disabled Hardware Acceleration on the projector by right clicking on the player and going into settings. That "seems" to have solved it in this case since the projector has been running ok for a day or two now.
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I see this issue crop up MOSTLY when Alt-Tabbing between windows and when things show up over the Flash projector (outlook/im notifications, etc). But it does also happen randomly.
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I have also noticed that with nVidia on Vista and 7, you can't disable acceleration from the OS anymore. I think you might be able to if you uninstalled the graphics driver, though.
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Hi guys,
may be a little late but I thought I'd share this with you all as I've spent hours trying to fix this problem, simply right click on the flash.exe whilst it is running, select settings and uncheck 'enable hardware acceleration' which is located in the first tab of the adobe flash player settings menu.
Good luck
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In my case, what had happened is when I animate with the timeline... was sooo slow. When I tried to animate by AS, only could see the last step of the animation. At the end, I have discovered that I cannot use "FILTERS", because when I was using the Drop Shadow, everything went as you said, freeze.
Try to remove all the filters.
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Sorry... in my case, the issue was only using the Projector to make an interactive Cd.
Hope this helps
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I have the same issue. I am also working on a kiosk, so fullscreen is badly needed. I have tested the same application on another machine with ATI graphics card and 64 bit XP and it seems not to produce the same issue. The original freezing machine runs on an Nvidia card and 32bit XP. I have tried the following whitout any luck:
- setting hardware acceleration of in the Flash player
- in the Nvidia control panel setting all 3d acceleration to none (or optimize for performance)
I am using Flash player v 10.0.45.2.
I would like to try the flash player 10.1 beta, but theere seems to be no projector player available on adobe labs. Any idea where i could get that?