trouble with flash games

[corey221]

hey
whenever i try to play small flash games that my computer has had no trouble with before, it now crashes. ive got 360 something RAM, a pentIII, and im running Win2K pro. ive got all the latest updates of IE, DirectX, Flash, and Java and still some games freeze. these include shockwave's Inklink and the flash game Drag Racer v3. any suggestions?

[Nix]

Uninstall flash, reboot and resinstall it.

[corey221]

ill try. out of curiosity, do you know why its not working? so that i can prevent it from stopping working again. thanks.

[Nix]

Sometimes it just breaks and removing and d/l the latest version fixes it.

No guarantee but worth a try.

[corey221]

ok i did that. and no help. i even reformatted (for other reasons) earlier today, and still there is freezing. im beginning to think maybe it has somethign to do with my video card. if so, how do i tell what video card i have installed? and could it possibly be missing drivers or something? thank you

[liam858]

Are you trying to play the games through IE?, if so try a more reliable browser such as firefox,you could check device manager firstly for hardware errors, and also to check out what hardware you currently have try this little tool: Everest (http://www.lavalys.com/products/download.php?dlid=1&lang=en)

and if you want info about drivers for any of the hardware it lists then post the log back here and someone will help you out:)


Liam

[corey221]

i updated drivers and it still froze. i am using IE but i was considering switching to firefox anyway, so i might do that. could it have been an overheating issue? i didnt think so at first since they were both such small games but maybe so? i dont know. anyway, thanks for the suggestions thus far.