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Shockwave Flash crashes consistently on Facebook's Farmville2 game

Zynga game called Farmville2, played through Facebook using either UPDATED Firefox or Chrome. Frequently clear history and Flash cache, but continue to get crashes, submit crash reports and not much helps. No known problems, graphic card fast, net fast, every product and driver updated and current. Windows 7 Ultimate is the OS.

Zynga has posted a lot of information in these regards, all of which we've followed, but family and friends continue to experience these crashes. Adobe flash is updated, btw, as well and we DO NOT have both plugins running; we've disabled the Pepper Flash item.

Thanks for your help.

":0) Asta

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John

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Yes, always Flash - Shockwave updated.

Farmville Two has some intense animations and 3D graphics, graphic cards are fast and drivers updated. It is helpful to get insight from players in those environments, in my humble opinion.

Stopped background irrelevant things from running, more than enough RAM, etc. Baffled.

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John

It must be a Facebook problem. Nothing else is causing you an issue. I do not use Farmville so I cannot comment or help further. Sorry.

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I thank you, John, and appreciate your time very much. I am hoping that we can get a solution, having spent inordinate amounts of time trying to help resolve these crashes for family for months in varying environments and HW/SW.

Perhaps I should have posted this elsewhere within our site. Not sure. Also unclear if posting to Facebook would help either, as options below show in the "also Share on".

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Thank you, I've done this a few times, and uninstalled and reinstalled it completely. the Shockwave Flash crashes continue, not only in Chrome but also new versions of Firefox. It is when within the 3D game called farmville2 when animations are active and a lot of activity activated. It seems like the graphics card and/or settings in any browser can't seem to keep up, or that the background stuff that runs in Facebook, like ads and unwanted other stuff, is integral to the failures. But inclear.

This link for the game to troubleshoot the Shockwave Flash crash issues has been tried on various computers and crashes persist.

https://zyngaplayersupport.com/article/farmville-2/Google-Chrome-Shockwave-Flash-has-crashed-en_US-1370047740720

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Will try it and Report back. I
Think it was set to something like hardware acceleration if available or something but I'll check it out let you know thank you

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The problems persist. In Chrome, frequently clearing history and Flash, helps for a while. The crashes do persist and it just makes no sense. Disabling hardware acceleration did not make a difference, other than slowing down gameplay.

Sorry to report back less than great news. Any other ideas? The ONE computer which crashes the least is a laptop with minimal other preinstalled OS on it. The other computers which crash frequently are all upgrades from XP to Windows/7 Ultimate and another from Vista to W/7 Ultimate. Graphics cards, drivers, etc. all current. The one which crashes the MOST is a 32 bit, CPUs fast and 4 GB of RAM. Peer-assisted networking is not allowed in Flash settings.

Name resolution for the name www.facebook.com timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded... is something that I see in the Event Log and curious about it as well.

Thank you.

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Closing despite ongoing issues between the way that Shockwave Flash handles things in the whole Farmville2 arena which has 3D graphics and intense movement. I suspect that it's an ongoing combo of issues including the limitations of Windows 7, the Graphics card and driver and all the dependent software / flash settings and so on that are involved.

Thank you for your efforts.

":0) Asta

Mike Sun

I have seen the Shockwave Crash issue in Chrome when the PC or website is too busy to service the request. The time-out you see in the event log indicates that this may be the cause. As a test, try opening the same page in many tabs to see if the problem worsens under heavier load...

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Thanks for your feedback. Hopefully the Flash components can be updated to keep up with demands, not to mention drivers for existing hardware. Alas, dreams.