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    #21
    Re: Aaaaaand flash is dead!

    Originally posted by momaka View Post
    Well, if your PC has an Intel G4x video, then the CPU is probably also a Core 2 Duo or better. So in that case, I would say don't bother with installing Flash.

    I set up a laptop for my uncle last summer. Was debating whether or not to put Flash player on there. But since the laptop had a C2D T9xxx CPU and Intel HD 3000 GPU, I decided to leave it without Flash. With HTML5 in Firefox 41, I could run YouTube 1080p without any lag at all. Didn't notice problems with any other websites either. My uncle is really happy with it so far. Huge upgrade from his Pentium 3 laptop with 384 MB of RAM (imagine that !)
    A couple of important points:

    1) That laptop should be more than enough to run Flash. I'm doing it on my T8100 and GL40 (Albeit in only 720p30 - which is good enough for me)...

    2) In Windows 8+, you can get away with a lot more because IE has built-in H264 acceleration (and its performance in that respect far surpasses that of Chrome and Firefox for older GPUs).
    "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

    -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

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      #22
      Re: Aaaaaand flash is dead!

      I mean, it's not gone yet, it'll probably be around for a few more years. The transition hsa begun though and that's exciting even if it were 20 years out! So annoy, Such vulns!!!

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        #23
        Re: Aaaaaand flash is dead!

        Originally posted by eccerr0r View Post
        I recall some other older machines that had trouble with flash for youtube in a small window so that's why this was a bit surprising to me...
        By small window, do you mean those embedded YouTube videos in other websites or just YouTube in non-full screen mode?
        I usually find the reverse to be true - fulls screen takes more CPU, especially on old video cards. My non-HT 2.66 GHz P4 Northwood with GeForce FX5600, for example, struggles with full screen even at 360p, but runs okay on normal screen 360p and sometimes 480p. I do have Flash 11.x on that PC, though, so maybe that's why.

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          #24
          Re: Aaaaaand flash is dead!

          Updating Nvidia 5000 series and 6000 series drivers does magic in full screen youtube. No more tearing in videos after updating.

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