Flash Locking up Computer

[lupi]

After a couple weeks of troubleshooting, I was pretty sure that my lockups were due to flash. This weekend I finally went in and turned off hardware acceleration, and haven't had a lockup since.

Is there anyway to further attempt to fix the problem or is this where I'm stuck at until a new release comes to try out?

 

[lxskllr]

You could try updating gfx drivers, but I wouldn't put in that kind of effort to fix a turd like Flash.

 

[PliotronX]

While I agree with lxskllr, I had a similar experience with my Radeon 7850. No amount of tweaking or driver versions ever fixed it because it was a flaw in the way that the dynamic clocks would supply lower voltages more aggressively than clocking down and so the disparity resulted in freezes and "driver stopped working" messages with light loads like older games and Flash videos. Tore my hair out because recent games ran just fine on it. Reading other posts about my particular Gigabyte 7850, an RMA would not have solved it so I just replaced it with a GTX 780 and had no further troubles.

 

[lupi]

almost of week of no problems after turning hardware acceleration off, then the same page starts locking me up again.

Spent another couple hours last night troubleshooting, even going through a couple different versions of previous video drivers and couldn't stop it.

 

[PliotronX]

Do you have another PCI-Ex graphics card, even if not gaming-grade to swap out and try? If not, the last options I'd suggest would be resetting browser settings or an alternative browser altogether.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I'm surprised no one is curious as to the web pages the OP is going to and having the chronic problems to begin with. Maybe First, why is it that Flash is suspect and not something browser-related? Also, how is it a video driver issue in combination with Flash when everything else seems to be ignored?

 

[lupi]

Because it's a flash based webgame that if not open no issue ever occurs. Also I have two near identical computers, primary difference being the discete gpus. And finally, i've visited that webpage for years without any issue until I had to install a new GPU after previous one went bad, and since drivers and GPU changed at about the same time, I attempted to roll back through previous versions since I had no issue when they were in use (albeit with a different video card).