Adobe Flash 10.2b Makes Better Use of Your GPU

[Snipergod87]

I really dont like flash being offloaded to the GPU, just makes my GPU spin up to 3d clocks and my laptop cooling fan kick in..

 

[tipoo]

Works well. You can toggle the gpu on and off with their big bunny test, and with it off CPU useage is around 50-60%, turning it on sees an immediate drop to 7-13. Impressive, watching a 1080p clip with barely any CPU use!

 

[DjEaZy]

... but still no x64... WTF!?!?! When cpu's and os's will run in 128bit, flash still be in 32Bit...?!?!?!

 

[mikem_90]

Just curious, what about battery life on notebooks with this? I seem to recall hearing that when they increased usage of the video chip for this, that battery life suffered, even to the point where having a flash item open had the video chip running in a full power state.

When you have many websites open on tabs, flash being as pervasive as it is, will they play nice and not have the video chip in "active" state like I recall hearing before?

 

[mikem_90]

[citation][nom]theshonen8899[/nom]This'll help take the load off my netbooks ATOM and put it on the ION, which is also chemically sound.[/citation]

I'm feeling rather charged about this prospect.

 

[toallthehaters]

yeah, still no 64 bit. They don't support their software product and I have no idea why such a tech oriented crowd would back them up the way they do.

I guess a enemy of my enemy is my friend around here.

 

[SteelCity1981]

[citation][nom]jrharbort[/nom]Great, but will it fix the random freezes and BSoDs that 10.1 gave me CONSTANTLY? I'm still using 10.0.45.2 since it's still the only stable release for me.[/citation]

Must me your hardware or drivers casuing that, because i've never ran into those issues with my pc's.

 

[helmutcheese]

@ SteelCity1981 DO you actually ever READ what it says on websites when you install software ?

Adobe clearly state that if you opt to use the 64bit "Square" builds of Flash you must update it from the same part of the Adobe Labs Site (Beta Site basically).

Here is the Flash 10.2 64bit Beta build (Preview 3 Nov 30th 2010): http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_square.html