Adobe Intros Fusion-Supported Flash Player 10.2

[exfileme]

Adobe released a new Flash Player that provides high-definition content while barely touching the CPU.

Adobe Intros Fusion-Supported Flash Player 10.2 : Read more

 

[freddyokyes]

total win for adobe IMO I say. although I will test my netbook to see how well it performs with 1080p movies.

 

[rootheday]

Adobe Flash 10.2 also adds support for hw accelerated media playback for Sandybridge (Intel HD Graphics 2000, 3000)

 

[frye]

My Q6700 (running at 3.5 GHz) is still using about 25-30% of my CPU when playing a youtube video.

Adobe's site says: "You have version 10.2.154.12 installed"

I have an ATI 5870. So what's up?

 

[freddyokyes]

oh wow imagine the performance now?! 0_-

 

[freddyokyes]

my i7 930 is running at 4.2ghz and I have a pair of gtx 460's 1gb in sli and it using about 2 to 3 percent of my cpu.

 

[digitalvampire]

@frye
They are talking about AMD's newer CPUs, not their GPUs (ie, your 5870). Your confusion is understood since there is already Flash acceleration for Nvidia's GPUs (since 10.1) and now (assuming poster rootheday is correct) Intel GPUs.

This is good news, however, flash is still ... just ... awful. I haven't checked yet, but is the 64-bit version included with this release, or does it still have to be downloaded from Adobe Labs?

 

[digitalvampire]

Ah, the 64-bit version isn't included ... still. Here is a link to Adobe Labs 64-bit version (Preview Release). This is the one I've been using for a while and seems to work fine (other than several audio problems). Installers for Windows & Mac, and for Linux, just drop libflashplayer.so into the directory '/usr/lib{64}/mozilla/plugins/' .

 

[frye]

@digitalvampire
So are you saying there's still no support for discrete ATI/AMD GPUs? Or was that released back with 10.1 as well?

 

[slyphnier]

@frye have u turn on hardware acceleration on flash ? if u havent you should try it

 

[of the way]

"In addition to support from the AMD Fusion Family of APUs, AMD and Adobe have worked together to enable AMD Radeon™ discrete GPUs to support and accelerate Adobe Flash player 10.2." From Amd.

 

[rhino13]

This will enable support for any GPU, on or off chip, AMD or nVidia.
The problem is this: "Nguyen added that Web surfers won't see the improvement immediately, as websites and content providers will first need to update their video players."

Find the video that freddyokyes was playing and you will get similar performance.

 

[killbits]

for several years i've had to perform a small tweak/hack in the adobe folder on every installation of windows to get flash to stay full-screen on one monitor while working on another monitor.

seems adobe finally got around to including this easy function in their software. its about damn time.