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    ATI HD5830 Crashing With Flash Video using Catalyst 10.6

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by moviemarketing, Aug 1, 2010.

  1. moviemarketing

    moviemarketing Milk Drinker

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    I updated to Catalyst 10.6 about a week ago and I've had no problems until today.

    I noticed that whenever I try to play one specific video embeded on a web page, the video box turns green and I get an error message in my system tray indicating the ATI display driver has stopped working and no other flash videos are playable.

    I reboot and the same problem occurs, only if I try to play this specific flash video in Google Chrome.

    I tried playing the video in Internet Explorer; however, it doesn't appear on the webpage in IE. Haven't tried Firefox.

    Here is a link to the specific video that is causing problems on gameinformer.com:
    http://gameinformer.com/b/features/...-2-team-discusses-story-combat-and-hawke.aspx

    EDIT: It played fine when I uninstalled all ATI software and drivers and reboot the system. Then, after installing Catalyst 10.7, there were no further problems.

    After a bit of research, it seems that some others had reported problems with Flash video playback using 10.6
     
    moviemarketing, Aug 1, 2010
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  2. MagusDraco

    MagusDraco Biiiiiiirrrrdmaaaaaaan

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    it was some combination of gpu hardware acceleration in flash 10.1, a new codec streaming places were using, and catalyst drivers below 10.7
     
    MagusDraco, Aug 1, 2010
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