Damnit, I was playing this great flash game on-line called Chasm, and the thing kept freezing at certain points. I've had this problem on other flash games too. Is there anything I can do?
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 25 March 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)
Make sure your Flash player on your browser is updated?
go to macromedia's website.. surely, you can d/l the latest player there.
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)
Mind you, sometimes the games themselves have bugs. If this is just happening to Chasm and those other specific games only? Maybe the programmers there suck? If all these games are made by the same company, that could be the issue as well.
(One site, d3xt3r1ty games dot cawm -- or something like that -- has some great online puzzle games, but man their demos crash like a motherfucker all the time. Maybe they've updated, hopefully...)
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)
Seems like it just happens on games that last a long time, and tends to happen after I've been playing a while.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)
hmmm, sounds like a Flash player issue. If you don't have the latest one, get it. If you have the latest, maybe try a different browser one time, and see if the same thing happens with the same game with problems?
Speaking from experience, I can tell you that memory leaks in Flash games are as common as pigeonfunk on sidewalks in busy cities. Many people, even those who try to manually delete memory when appropriate, can't catch all the leaks, because of the lack of utilities to detect possibly memory leaks in Actionscript code. One could write a utility app to try, and maybe one is out there, but Flash is mainly used for brevity in development, and the internal programming language is meant to fail politely, so 99.999% bug-free Flash games are far rarer than 99.999% bug free Xbox games, for example.
Either that, or Flash itself, even the latest version, still has issues with memory management in general. But I doubt that, since I've played some Flash games and let them run overnight for work purposes, and never experienced crashes (although they ran slower after a while.)
Keep in mind that 90% of Flash use is for very quick "flashy" (no pun intended) business web page intros, and not necessarily games.. especially ones that last a long time.
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)