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8500GT doesn't like Adobe Flash 10.1

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Hi All

I'm hoping someone here has seen this problem before and can provide a quick answer (because it's starting to get on my nerves). I have a 8500 GT in a Windows 7 Home Premium system. It ran fine until I went to Flash 10.1. Now everytime a Flash video plays the 8500 GT driver crashes. I have gone as far as removing the card from the machine, deleting all the drivers and reinstalling from scratch with the latest driver from Nvidia, but no luck. I also tried rolling back to an earlier version of Flash, put my system won't have it. As soon as I try to play a video it says I need to update to Flash 10.1.

I don't care how I fix this (fix the driver or find a way of using an earlier version of Flash), I just want it to work. I have a ticket open with Nvidia, but so far they have only come up with things I have already tried.
 
I believe you are crashing due to a problem with Flash Player 10.1's new hardware acceleration feature, which is enabled by default. The normal procedure to turn it off is:

1. Watch any Youtube video
2. While the video is playing, right-click on the player and select "Settings".
3. Click to the first tab in the settings window and uncheck the "Enable hardware acceleration" box.
4. Click "Close" and try watching any Youtube video in full screen mode again.
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However, the foolish part about enabling this by default is that if the feature crashes your PC, you have no way of getting to the place to turn it off!

To get around this, I found in this thread the suggestion to go this page:

http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

and right-click on the flash object there to get to the Settings. If your PC crashes on that page, you may need to remove the 8500GT from your computer and then open that page to get to the settings.
 
Hi evilsofa

Thanks for the info. It took a few attempts to get this done. I just had a few seconds from Flash starting till the driver crashed. The first few times it crashed just as I tried to uncheck the "Enable hardware acceleration" box, but third time did prove lucky - and the problem is solved.
 
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