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Help with pc. Crashes when watching videos online

Discussion in 'Non-Emulation Help' started by rell, May 15, 2012.

  1. rell

    rell Well-Known Member

    When every I watch videos online my computer crashes. Im not really sure why this happens. Can someone help me figure out whats wrong?
     
  2. Jhon 591

    Jhon 591 Well-Known Member

    Try updateing your adobe flash players.

    Are you can play this game my nephew found http://www.gamefudge.com/Bash-the-Computer
     
  3. rell

    rell Well-Known Member

    Theyre up to date already, An LOL!!!

    Any other suggestions?
     
  4. Jhon 591

    Jhon 591 Well-Known Member

    Any idea of your PC specs ?, Windows version est...

    Videos tend you use mostly video drives, codec stuf like that.

    I tend to use Your Uninstaller! And close down any hidden programs that starup with my PC, Apprt from the AV program.
     
  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    try a different browser. Flash player is known to be problematic.
     
  6. joshua.rozario

    joshua.rozario Well-Known Member

    try disabling hardware acceleration or maybe update your graphics card driver
     
  7. B3H3M0T

    B3H3M0T Well-Known Member

    your adobe flash was updated buy are your JAVA also up-to-date??
    if no update it and unistall old version
    then install codec or player like VLC, RealOne, QuickTime, and K-lite mega
    and update your browser and clear your history and cookies
     
  8. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Java has nothing to do with playing videos online.
     
  9. rell

    rell Well-Known Member

    I've tried all of these things but nothing works. I'm gonna contact HP support pretty soon, because I watch videos online alot, and this is kinda annoying. Also, video chat and everything else works fine. Its the streaming of videos that messes things up.
     
  10. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    what is your internet speed and latency? (www.speedtest.net and www.pingtest.net)
     
  11. B3H3M0T

    B3H3M0T Well-Known Member

    ps dont use auto update for adobe flash instead use offline one search it on filehippo or etc
    if not something happen on your VGA/ display software
     
  12. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    its highly unlikely to be the graphics driver.

    Are you using firefox and if so, what version of the flash plugin? if its 11.3 then uninstall it and download flash 11.2. 11.3 has a crash bug that adobe can't seem to fix.
     
  13. rell

    rell Well-Known Member

    It crashes no matter what internet client im using. Also, the answer to your previous question, download speed, 20.03 upload speed 3.18
     
  14. B3H3M0T

    B3H3M0T Well-Known Member

    are there any file on your AV Quarantine if yes delete all of it
     
  15. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    try downgrading flash anyway, it might be affecting other browsers as well as firefox.
     
  16. ce5

    ce5 Member

    I had the same problem (Win 7 64 bit) you have to download a browser that supports 64bit. waterfox fixed it for me!
    Now i am still on line with Opera (deletet firefox) but only watch videos with waterfox.
     
  17. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    64 bit vs 32bit has nothing to do with it.
     
  18. megashell

    megashell Well-Known Member

    Well my youtube vids never render past 30 seconds ahead, and then i have to reach that 30 seconds to render it even more! do you know how much that sucks!

    running Mozilla Firefox
     
  19. Duncan Idaho

    Duncan Idaho Well-Known Member

    same happens to me, only that is with chrome
     
  20. ce5

    ce5 Member

    i didn't have any rendering problems. just my whole pc crashed/frezzed.

    @loonylion
    i don't know why changing to waterfox was the solution for me to that problem. (before changing i deinstaled and instaled flash [with regedit enteries] installed/uninstalled firefox in any possible order). Nothing worked, changing to waterfox was my solution. (i still can't watch HD-Flashvideos on Opera without the risk of freezing my pc)

    @megashell
    perhaps (and i am only guessing) you have a problem with youtube's html5? i don't know if you can disable it or how but i just read html5 could lead to the symptoms you are describing