Re: Flash Player Crashes IE6 (Internet Explorer)

roblarson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:01:49 -0500:

> Has anyone else had this problem? I can no longer run the Macromedia's
> Flash player in Windows XP with IE6 without getting a ton of explorer
> crashes, always with the same message (IE has encountered a problem and
> must close.....). How can I find out why this is happening? Microsoft and
> Macromedia (now Adobe) have no answers that I can find. Please help.
> Thanks in advance.
> Rob

I get this on one of my PCs too - I dug around a while ago in the Macromedia
forums and there were loads of posts suggesting an issue with the Flash
Player on machines using the onboard C-Media sound on VIA based motherboards
(the machine I have a problem with has the KT133 chipset, my other PC which
does not has an nForce2 chipset). Only Flash pages utilising audio have
problems. The result of most of the threads was that the Macromedia Flash
developers were aware of the issue, but did not have a timeframe for a fix,
and as they were being bought by Adobe development was being frozen on the
player. I'm not sure if the business situation has changed, but the
technical issue is still there. I managed to reduce the number of crashes by
reducing sound hardware acceleration in Control Panel down to zero, but it
still crashes from time to time - much to the annoyance of my daughter who
spends a lot of time on the CBeebies website, which is 99% Flash based.

Dan


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