Vista flash.ocx prob - NOT IE RELATED

[d4railur]

Just got a new laptop yesterday with:

vista home premium 32 bit
amd 64x2
1g ram

I like to play poker (just play money) on carbon poker and poker.com

I installed the programs and went to play on them. The program loads fine, functions fine in the menus and game lists.

But when I join a game (i.e. there are moving symbols-cards, chips, chat bubbles) the game window freezes within 5-10 secs, basically as soon as something on the table moves.

At this point none of the buttons in the table window work. However, I can go into the lobby (no moving symbols) and exit the program.

After exiting the program I get an error stating:

"this program requires a missing windows component" blah blah

the details state:

"this program requires flash.ocx, which is no longer included with this version of windows"

The solution tells me to install the latest version of flash, which I did.

Same problem.

I have tried uninstalling flash and installing full version (separate file, not browser based install) - no luck
I have tried installing flash 7 and 8 - no luck
I have tried copying flash9.ocx and renaming it flash.ocx - no luck
I have tried setting program to run compatible with win xp sp2 - no luck
I have searched every forum, google search string, adobe, and ms sites - no luck
I have tried installing a version of carbon poker from vista downloads - no luck

As far as I can tell, this program needs flash to function properly in the games. I don't know if there is a problem with where vista puts flash and the program is looking elsewhere for it or what.

Can someone please help me figure out how to get these programs to run? They are not browser based, they are separate programs run from an exe.

Thanks in advance.

Per thread discussion moved to Windows/PC Software
Anandtech Moderator - bsobel

 

[d4railur]

I got a reply from the tech support, they said the error can be caused by flash unexpectedly terminating. Any ideas on how to correct that? Thanks in advance,

 

[d4railur]

anandtech used to be full of helpful answers, what happened

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: d4railur
anandtech used to be full of helpful answers, what happened

Sorry, I tried googling a bit as well on this one but simply can't find anyone else who's run into this yet (scratches head). Was kinda hoping one of the other OS regulars would have some ideas. If you like I can move the thread to PC Software, it might have more exposure there... LMK

 

[d4railur]

OK thanks for the tip man.

 

[mechBgon]

Try this and tell me if it helps or not (just speculating here):

1) go to where the Flash files are and find FlashUtil9c.exe

2) right-click it and choose Run as Administrator

3) let it do its little update thing


Any improvement?

 

[d4railur]

I have FlashUtil9d and have tried right clocking and running as admin but get same problem.

It seems that flash does quit working when I try to play the game, but when I check in the task manager the process is running fine. I have even tried tweaking the priority and affinity but neither works