I have had problems with my flash player ever since I got my laptop two years ago. I have tried EVERYTHING to fix it. I have a HP Pavilion g6 running Windows 8.1. Until now, I have just avoided doing anything with Flash or dealing with the delay, but I'm to the point where every time it happens, I get frustrated and angry.
The crash itself just makes my window stop working, then pops up an error message saying Shockwave Flash has crashed, so I hit continue and after a short while (1-4) minutes, it starts working again, until I go to a new website that uses flash. This, however, is not just limited to a browser, but everything on my computer that could run something like flash (i.e. Spotify).
Action steps taken: Uninstalling/reinstalling (countless times), Updating driver, Error checking my drive, Optimizing my drive, disabling hardware acceleration, etc....
The only thing that seemed to work kind-of was only uninstalling Active X. That would eliminate crashes, but it wouldn't often play videos.
Please help me.