Adoble Flash Player Green Bar Of Death Solution Found!

Hi everyone!

This is for everyone experiencing the green bar of death when watching flash videos of any sort online! This is Adobe's fault!

After downloading Flash's 11.*.*.* updates and running Lenovo's newest Nvidia's Optimus drivers for my W530 in particular, but for a lot of Lenovo's out there no matter the chipset, you may find a green bar.

The fix is to close all your browsers, uninstall flash, reboot, then download:
Flash Version 11.1.102.62 from Adobe's official legacy version download page:
Archived Flash Player versions

11.1.102.62 is the latest version of Flash you can run and not run into the green bar of death and red/blue ghosting in your flash videos. This is a flash problem and not a lenovo/nvidia problem!

I tried every single one of the most recent flash updates backwards in order of publication to get to the last working flash version! FYI the current version 11.3.300.265 does NOT work and will cause the green bar issue!

(Released 5/04/2012) Flash Player 11.2.202.235 (159 MB)
(Released 4/13/2012) Flash Player 11.2.202.233 (159 MB)
(Released 3/28/2012) Flash Player 11.2.202.228 (170 MB)
(Released 3/28/2012) Flash Player 10.3.183.18 (67.3 MB)
(Released 3/05/2012) Flash Player 11.1.102.63 (174 MB)
(Released 3/05/2012) Flash Player 10.3.183.16 (67.3 MB)

Lenovo tech support was no help on this issue, and I researched on adobe forums how tons of developers basically had to uninstall down a bunch of versions because Adobe refuses to fix the issues they're causing. Finally, the 10.*.*.* versions probably won't let you install because it's too old and Adobe makes you download the lastest version, which will zap all your videos!

I can't believe I had to find a solution independent of Adobe AND Lenovo tech support!!!!

You can also disable hardware acceleration on your most recent version of flash player and that may stop it as well.

 

this happened to me on all youtube videos

google search led me to other people with the issue. solution is, you right click the video to bring up the flash player menu, click settings, and UNCHECK "enable hardware acceleration"

this leads me to believe that it is indeed Lenovo's fault, not adobes. its gotta be a driver issue when using the nvidia GPU instead of the integrated Intel.

i'm also getting the green bar now on VLC when i try to enable GPU acceleration

i just posted this on lenovo forums as well, hopefully they will fix it

w530 with the latest lenovo drivers 8.17.12.9688

 

it's an adobe issue with firefox.   search the adobe forum and you'll find plenty with the issue regardless of video chipset or PC manufacturer.   don't expect lenovo to fix third-party software.

you might try firefox 14.0.1 with flash 11 to see if it's fixed.

 

Then why is Flash problematic with all browsers? Hopefully HTML5 will solve world peace.

 

i was using Chrome, not firefox. and its happening with VLC as well, so i don't know how you can claim its adobe.

if many adobe users are complaining, its probably because they have outdated drivers. they should all go and update their video drivers and it will probably solve their issues.

thats certainly what i would suggest to the OP of this thread. however, he has a W530 just like me, and there is no newer drivers than what i'm using.

 

i haven't personally had issues with flash 11 on IE9 so my experience is that it's isolated to firefox.   it's quite possible that other browsers are affected and wouldn't surprise me at all.   i just pay attention to firefox since that's what i use most.

agreed on HTML 5.   flash is a nuisance.

how can you claim the flash issue isn't adobe's fault?   i can install firefox 13.x and flash 11 on any system regardless of video chipset (including workstations) and replicate the issue.   it's not isolated to lenovo systems and only happens for me with FF13 and flash 11.   flash 10 runs fine and it too has GPU acceleration.

if you're having video driver issues with chrome and VLC then that's a different issue entirely and not related to how flash is crashing/hanging browsers.   it sounds like you have a completely different issue than what's being discussed here.

 

I had it with IE9, but it worked good with Chrome. I also had Explorer always closing whenever it played video. I tried unchecking something in the advanced internet options but it didn't work. That's when someone said to switch to Chrome, which worked good. After using Chrome for a while and a few IE updates, videos now play fine with IE9.

 

Thanks for the post. I thought it was just me. I was using chrome but now I'm going back to FF.