Flash 10.1 sucks. How do I roll back?

[big_cliche]

I updated to Flash 10.1 about a week ago. What a disappointment. It's MUCH slower than Flash 10.0. Yes, I've enabled hardware acceleration (not that it matters; I have the old G80 version of the 8800GTX which does not accelerate Flash/H264).

Flash 10.0 YouTube performance:
360/480p: 0-4% CPU usage
720p: 6-14% CPU usage
1080p: 18-36% CPU usage

Flash 10.1:
360/480p: 20-30%
720p: 38-52%
1080p: 58-74%

I did see a Flash 10.0 player in Adobe's archive section, but it was 157MB (!). Does anyone have the 2MB player (or a way to roll back)? Thanks!

 

[ciproxr]

I have the same issue but on a mac, they were suppose to make it better but its worse

 

[Pretty Cool]

Try disabling hardware acceleration in the Flash settings and see if that makes a difference. Problem if you downgrade is that the update also plugged a security hole.

 

[dajeepster]

Try disabling hardware acceleration in the Flash settings and see if that makes a difference. Problem if you downgrade is that the update also plugged a security hole.

didn't you read the post right above yours... that guy has a mac, so he doesn't have security holes because SJ has decreed it so.

 

[big_cliche]

No difference after disabling hardware acceleration.

 

[richierich1212]

Quick google search:

http://en.softonic.com/s/adobe-10.0.0

 

[0roo0roo]

yup, adobe products are riddled with security issues, so sadly, rollback is a bad bad idea.

 

[Pretty Cool]

didn't you read the post right above yours... that guy has a mac, so he doesn't have security holes because SJ has decreed it so.

I think Steve brainwashes (I mean teaches) his worshippers to attack Adobe whenever possible.

 

[big_cliche]

Thanks Rich, but that site (as well as the many other sites I've tried) link to 10.1

 

[big_cliche]

yup, adobe products are riddled with security issues, so sadly, rollback is a bad bad idea.

Sh!t. How the hell did they manage to make 10.1 so much slower? I think fullscreen 1080p is completely maxing out the CPU. Video is perfectly smooth, but the fan kicks up a notch--something it never did with 10.0.

 

[0roo0roo]

i dunno, its always been faster for me as i've got the right gpu for acceleration.

bad luck and poor optimization on the mac or whatever.

 

[big_cliche]

i dunno, its always been faster for me as i've got the right gpu for acceleration.

bad luck and poor optimization on the mac or whatever.

I'm running Win7--Macs suck. ^_^

I was never able to use my GPU for Flash acceleration, but with Flash 10.0 I could play 1080p video using only ~25% of the CPU. I don't know why they had to make CPU-only decoding 3+ times slower with 10.1. Maybe this newfangled HTML5 is a good idea after all.

 

[Pretty Cool]

Somebody on Adobe's forum has the old files archived on his personal website. If installed, it would not surprise me if you were constantly nagged to upgrade to 10.1. Anyway, here is his post.

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You are one of the few people in this forum who has already done all the things we usually recommend before posting. Unfortunately that leaves us with very few more options.


In this case I recommend that you revert to the 10.0.45.2 version of Flash Player:

•download the FP uninstaller from http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html (save to disk);
•download the 10.0 ActiveX installer http://www2.gol.com/users/pbw/filelib/install_flash_player_ax.exe (save to disk);
•download the 10.0 plugin installer http://www2.gol.com/users/pbw/filelib/install_flash_player_ax.exe (save to disk);
•now close all browser windows, then run the downloaded uninstaller;
•reboot Windows, then run the downloaded installers.

Disclaimer: the two installers to download are on my own website; this is not an official Adobe download. There is a download for archived Flash Players on the Adobe site at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html, but these download files are very large!
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[dualsmp]

If your running Firefox, I'd run flashblock with an older version of flash. Only run flash on trusted sites since running an old flash plugin could be dangerous since there are so many security vulnerabilities.

 

[big_cliche]

Somebody on Adobe's forum has the old files archived on his personal website. If installed, it would not surprise me if you were constantly nagged to upgrade to 10.1. Anyway, here is his post.

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You are one of the few people in this forum who has already done all the things we usually recommend before posting. Unfortunately that leaves us with very few more options.


In this case I recommend that you revert to the 10.0.45.2 version of Flash Player:

•download the FP uninstaller from http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html (save to disk);
•download the 10.0 ActiveX installer http://www2.gol.com/users/pbw/filelib/install_flash_player_ax.exe (save to disk);
•download the 10.0 plugin installer http://www2.gol.com/users/pbw/filelib/install_flash_player_ax.exe (save to disk);
•now close all browser windows, then run the downloaded uninstaller;
•reboot Windows, then run the downloaded installers.

Disclaimer: the two installers to download are on my own website; this is not an official Adobe download. There is a download for archived Flash Players on the Adobe site at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html, but these download files are very large!
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Thanks! Man it's nice to see those ultra-low CPU utilization numbers in the task manager again.
I know it's not very secure, but I'm a pretty safe surfer. Might even save a few $$ on the power bill since 10.0 doesn't stress my 125w 6000+ nearly as much as 10.1.

 

[0roo0roo]

err safe is not safe, there have been times good sites have been compromised, or simply the sites that feed them adverts have been compromised.

 

[1234ru]

Thank you guys for the effort of having the older versions!
Nowadays software really turns out to come worse with time.
Just downgraded from Flashplayer 11.3 to 10.0. So now instead of having 100% CPU (which came finally unbearable so I started to seek for solution and found yours) I have no lugs at all.
Can't figure out really what did they do better in 11.x. Very little chances I'll update Flash in the future. I have no trust to them anymore.

Pretty Cool, just wanted to point out, that you have two same links in your post:

•download the 10.0 ActiveX installer http://www2.gol.com/users/pbw/fileli..._player_ax.exe (save to disk);
•download the 10.0 plugin installer http://www2.gol.com/users/pbw/fileli..._player_ax.exe (save to disk);

The second one from those (10.0 plugin installer) should be install_flash_player.exe, without '_ax' postfix (though it is quite easy to figure it out the right one by assumption).