Shockwave constantly crashing help

[jfelano]

What does your video configuration look like? Are you using the Intel graphics or just your 5850?

If you are using both, try one at a time. If you are using one, try the other. Try different AMD drivers.

HD5850. I've been having this problem for a year, through multiple drivers. Since I just installed Windows again, I haven't updated the driver at all so I'm sure I'm currently using an older one than I was before.

 

[jfelano]

I can say this, Firefox sucks. I've been having issues with it being a bit slow. Also sometimes the icons and tools are missing at the top of the page. When I close it and reopen it the icons and tools come back. I'd post a picture but I see no tools on this page to insert a picture.

 

[Ketchup]

I can say this, Firefox sucks. I've been having issues with it being a bit slow. Also sometimes the icons and tools are missing at the top of the page. When I close it and reopen it the icons and tools come back. I'd post a picture but I see no tools on this page to insert a picture.

These are some awkward issues. Makes me wonder if hardware or a driver is at fault here. Do you ever get a blue screen? How do games run?

 

[jfelano]

These are some awkward issues. Makes me wonder if hardware or a driver is at fault here. Do you ever get a blue screen? How do games run?

Couldn't be a driver cause I just re-installed windows. It seems you keep ignoring that fact.

No I have never gotten a blue screen lol. Games run perfectly. Passes Intel Burn Test.

This Firefox is frustratingly slow and wonky after being a Chrome user for so long.

 

[inachu]

Not your problem but shockwave problems in general I have found to be the following
Issues:

A. Shockwave somehow got corrupt. uninstall/reinstall.
B. Virus infection.
C. Shockwave is corrupt as well as the system profile. Uninstall shockwave and create new profile on PC.

So a good idea is to run SFC as well as chkdsk c: /f

 

[jfelano]

Not your problem but shockwave problems in general I have found to be the following
Issues:

A. Shockwave somehow got corrupt. uninstall/reinstall.
B. Virus infection.
C. Shockwave is corrupt as well as the system profile. Uninstall shockwave and create new profile on PC.

So a good idea is to run SFC as well as chkdsk c: /f

That's great, but obviously none of those are MY PROBLEM as you said.

 

[Fardringle]

I have a Windows 7 machine with an HD5670 video card and was recently having exactly the same problem. Shockwave Flash frequently stopped responding in ALL browsers, making the entire system unusable until the "not responding" error popped up. About a week ago, I disabled hardware acceleration in Flash and haven't had the problem show up again (yet). I suspect it's a conflict between newer versions of Shockwave and the older ATI card/drivers.

Go to this page to make sure your Flash is actually working and updated, then scroll down to the animated tree image. Right-click on the tree and then click Settings. In the Flash Settings screen, click on the Display tab (the far left blue one) and remove the check from "Enable Hardware Acceleration".

 

[jfelano]

Thanks, I did that, not sure why I would want to disable that though, but I will try it.

 

[jfelano]

Now I'm having weird issues. Unresponsive script errors just browsing amazon.com, twice in the last half hour then it crashed back to desktop. When i click back on Firefox, it tells me Firefox is having trouble recovering my windows and tabs. Not sure if this is related to me disabling hardware acceleration, but i've never gotten that before now.

Other than that everything is fine, been on the computer all day working.

 

[jfelano]

Ok well the script error thing hasn't happened again. I'm just going to say it was because I needed some updates or something.

However the shockwave issue is still a problem if I have a lot of tabs open, like 10+.

Otherwise I'm having zero issues.

 

[jfelano]

I went back to Chrome, so much faster and more responsive than Firefox.

Have not had the issue in a while. Still no idea what is wrong with Shockwave.

 

[jfelano]

It's been 30 days, have not had the problem anymore.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Good thing you seem to have gotten it fixed.

Not sure why anyone even tried to help you though considering how dickish you were in this thread but que sera, sera.