[Wine] Re: Flash, Shockwave, 3dVia plugins

TiberiusT
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:05:20 -0000

dimesio, tparker, tks very much indeed. I got it working by running the
downloaded Firefox 3.5.exe from the oldapps link. I then downloaded Shockwave
and Flash thru Winetricks and ran them manually.

I have two PCs I'm doing this on. On the Core2Duo 2.00Ghz with an 8500GT it
works fine...I say fine bcos Firefox does crash occassionally (only while
running flash). It seems random so far. There's also the occassional blank
space on the screen, but it is definitely very useable.

However the other PC is a venerable P4 at 3.2Ghz, 1MB mem, with an 8400GS and
Flash barely runs. CPU gets hammered at a continuous  80pct ish and there's
large black gaps in the rendering and chunks missing out of the screen. It's
not really useable. I've tried other Firefox versions and older Flash
versions but the problem is identical...

Both PCs use Nvidia's official drivers and both play H264 1080p level 4x at
a stroll using VDPAU.

Should I be messing around with videocard settings to try and sort the Flash
problem? Or is it just Wine/FFox/Flash doing something mighty intensive on the
CPU?

Tks
T