Flash - jerky playback and CPU pegged at 100%

[Tattoo Vampire]

This happens in Firefox, Opera and IE - all updated to latest version.
Latest version of Flash plugin installed. Updated my video drivers. Playing
any flash video yields spasmodic, jerky playback, with frames dropping,
flicker and my CPU maxxed out at 100%. This system runs on a 1 GHz CPU and 2
GB RAM, not the best Vista setup, but other than this Flash problem the
system runs Vista fine.

 

[Tattoo Vampire]

Check out the thread "Flash Player and Windows Vista Fix" and
the reply by "techangel". It might help you.

I didn't see this thread anywhere, notr anything posted by "techangel".
Anyhow, it was a fresh install of 10, and I also used their uninstall tool
(and not add/remove programs) to remove it and then reinstall.

 

[Cnut]

I didn't see this thread anywhere, notr anything posted by "techangel".
Anyhow, it was a fresh install of 10, and I also used their uninstall tool
(and not add/remove programs) to remove it and then reinstall.

http://businessafrica.net/africabiz/arcvol1/is99back.php

 

[Tattoo Vampire]

I didn't see this thread anywhere, notr anything posted by "techangel".
Anyhow, it was a fresh install of 10, and I also used their uninstall tool
(and not add/remove programs) to remove it and then reinstall.

This isn't a Vista-specific problem as it turns out - I installed Ubuntu on
this machine and am experiencing the same problem. So, now to figure out
what's going wrong.

 

[Cnut]

This isn't a Vista-specific problem as it turns out - I installed Ubuntu
on
this machine and am experiencing the same problem. So, now to figure out
what's going wrong.

****ed hardware, I bet!

 

[Tattoo Vampire]

****ed hardware, I bet!

Going to drop in a faster CPU. If that doesn't work, I'll replace this
Nvidia GEForce FX5200; I've been reading all sorts of negative things about
it concerning both Linux and Vista.