Windows – IE8: intense flickering for Flash in Windows 7 RTM

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Whenever I view a page with Flash on it (example www.fox.com), if I move my mouse around the page flickers intensely – like siezure inducing flicker. Is this a known issue, and is there a way to fix it?

  • Windows 7 RTM x64
  • IE8
  • Flash Player, Acrobat Reader, Shockwave Player are all I installed
  • Consistent across 3 very different machines (AMD ZM-82 + Radeon HD3200 laptop, Core i7 + NVidia GT220 desktop, P4D + NVidia 6400GT desktop), but all with the above software.

Best Answer

This is a known problem with flash on 32-bit IE 8 in Windows 7 64-bit. Check this forum post for more information.

Some suggestions (which 280Z28 disagrees with):

  • Moving to 32-bit will fix the problem, but you will miss out on some of the Advantages of 64-bit.
  • If you don't mind changing browsers that should also fix the issue.
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