Adobe Flash Player 9 Non SSE CPU Problem

[fortcollins]

Following <a href="http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=130285">Flash Player 9.1.151.0</a> I installed 9.1.151.0.

I tried looking at a youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nODyj8H68TA ,an interview with Ron Paul.

I crashed: illegal operation, invalid instruction. I got similar invalid instruction crashes with Opera, Firefox, and IE.

I discovered <a href="http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-290">[#FP-290] Invalid Instruction in FLASH9F.OCX on Intel PII-450</a> and <a href="http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=44&catid=184&threadid=1345138">Adobe - Adobe Flash Player</a>

Apparently, well over a year ago some genius programmer at Adobe hard coded some non SSE instructions without checking to see if the cpu had SSE instructions. Adobe has fixed it in Flash Player 10 but not Flash Player 9.

I intalled the Flash Player 159 tonight and got the same crashes. The problem remains unfixed in that release.

Great folks, these people at Adobe.

This bug has been around a while. I am surprised it hasn't show up.

One poster said you have to go back to r47 for a working version.

During that time I have used post r47 versions that worked, especially with advertisements. It seems like the problem is source file dependent.

I had problems for a while with youtube and one motivation for trying 151 was to see if it fixed those problems. It didn't.

[fortcollins]

I downloaded Flash 9 release 47 as suggested by the poster referred to above.

I uninstalled release 159 and installed release 47.

Like 159 the 47 installation passed the Adobe test at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/

I then tried viewing a video on youtube that had been crashing on me, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nODyj8H68TA

The video played fine.

[caps_buster]

Just recently I had disabled in bios the SSE instructions on my AXP Berton CPU. Flash worked well for me, version Flash v9.0.124.0 as well, as the latest.

Is there any very special reason to use the new Flash?

[fortcollins]

Capsbuster said:

>Is there any very special reason to use the new Flash?

Security is the only reason I have heard.

[Ayame]

possible sollution, unverified driver

try this link:

http://www.geocities.com/dalex_257/

[Philco]

Trying last Flash... hi, goto imageshack.us and click on Browse....

Go back! I love old version....

[fortcollins]

More on SOP Adobe screwups.

As noted above, I got Adobe Flash 9 r47 working with Opera.

Some days later I unsuccessfully tried playing a .swf video with Zoom Player. I quickly realized that I had not installed the IE active X Flash plugin, which Zoom Player uses for playing those files.

I then proceeded to install it only to discover it would not install. The install would run, but when I opened IE, the Adobe test page said I didn't have the plugin installed.

I looked on the net and found numerous posts complaining of r47 not installing with no solutions.

I then decided to try release 45. Both the Netscape plugin and IE activeX plugin versions of that release have worked so far.