Flash video stuttering in full screen playback.

Just before I got my new notebook I started watching shows on Hulu.com, everything worked fine on my old notebook, but now on my new notebook full screen flash videos go choppy after a short while. At first I thought it was because I had a crappy connection, I would either watch a full screen video that would go choppy after a short while (like say Buffy or Angel) at 480p or 360p (whatever the standard res is). It also happens when I watch trailers at Traileraddict.com, I'll watch a trailer through fine the first time, but when I wanna watch it again it stutters. Both work fine when I watch them on my desktop. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling flash, different nvidia driver and different web browsers (FF3, Chrome and EI7) nothing is making a difference. Plays fine regular sized window.

I was wondering if anyone else had any useful tips?

Notebook:
Gateway P-7811 FX
Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26Ghz, 1066fsb
4GB DDR3 1066
400GB (2x200GB HDD RAID 0)
Windows Vista Ultimate x64

 

What about hardware acceleration?

 

Where would I set that for flash?

 

Does this happen when on battery or while running on A/C power? What power setting are you using? I've seen some pretty serious stuttering if the power setting is not on High Performance. You might also want to check your video card settings, as some cards have different power saving settings.

 

Flash unfortunately uses bare minimum or no video acceleration, and it's even worse when scaling. It's a huge load on your CPU, and it's not even threaded. Basically, the best advice is to go to www.laptopvideo2go.com and make sure you have the latest Nvidia drivers for your machine, right-click on the flash object and go to the Settings and make sure that you have acceleration enabled if it's an option, and possibly use one of the latest betas of Flash from http://labs.adobe.com

 

Actually, in many cases, unchecking hardware acceleration in flash's settings will stop the stuttering, because many video card drivers don't work well with flash player. By default, hardware acceleration is always enabled, so try disable it in flash.

Right-click on a flash movie -> Settings -> Uncheck hardware acceleration

This trick has fixed this problem for many people.

 

Yup, disabling the hardware acceleration did the trick...strange. Love to find some video drivers that actually do work, I was using the official 9800M BETA drivers from NVs site and then switched to DOX drivers.