When using Adobe Flash Player 10 why is there high cpu/memory usage (100% utilization)?

Well done Rhonda you've interpreted correctly also happens on timesonline.co.uk, my theory is that there is software in all PC's some more than others that register the user's every cursor move that way they know the persons habits ie some adverts attract cursor movements more than others I'm not saying a click through I'm saying cursor hover marketing! Just in aptly attributable!

The problem with Adobe flash player is that it tries to do too many things - not just showing a video, but all sort of sophisticated flash objects.
This is why VLC needs less cpu.
What we need is a simple browser player that only shows videos, without funny stuff.

had the high cpu problem in firefox and ie; i tried a couple of suggestions i saw in postings with little change. uninstalled flash player, then opened firefox and went to youtube; installed flash plugin when prompted. then opened ie and went to youtube, and installed flash when prompted. now both ie and firefox play flash videos fast and flawless, with little overall cpu usage. i also did the same thing on my laptop and in the same order; the results were the same and flash works properly in both browsers. both machines are single-core intel p4 @~2.6/2.8ghz; both have on-board video cards with video memory sharing. both machines have 512 ram.

note: i was having problems with ie running 100 percent cpu while just open on comcast homepage and no video running. now running about 15 percent with same page open.

1. uninstall flash player
2. install firefox plugin
3. install ie flash

I tried to help you guys out here, but most of you are either arrogant or simply hard-headed to at least give my suggestion a try. Now look at you out here. Unless you start hoisting down your pride and listen, you will be keeping this thread for months, if not for years with no glint of an end to the core issue. And it is very likely that this thread will go on endlessly.

Now, do not ask me to re-post my suggestions here. I do believe once is enough for a sane person.

I have solved this problem months before, and never did it happen to me again, not even once. And now my CPU usage is constantly below 15% no matter how many active programs I open and how many windows I remain active.

The problem here is that, some people here whine first before reading, which then leads to having their judgment clouded and their intellect stained.

I agree with LACA.RODDER. I can't say I'm to terribly surprised, however. Adobe has gotten so big that they've stopped programming properly. We've gone from a 5MB installation to something far larger without any real functionality improvement. For example, I abandoned Adobe Reader for Foxit Reader because the installation is smaller and much faster than Adobe Reader, yet so far has handled any and every PDF file I've seen, from government documents to company reports. I believe Flash is suffering from the same issues -- it's just gone from a slim, fast, functional product to a bloated, spaghettii code behemoth that lumbers along, with bugs. The issue is they probably broke some of the original code with their additions and customizations, but because they bought it from another company, they don't know what they broke, or even where to look to figure it out.

I still haven't tried this myself, but this seems like the beginning of a good solution: http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/watch-y...

When I did a clean uninstall (it took some time to really do a "clean" uninstall), I never had the 100% CPU problem again. I am unable to locate my original post, in which I stated how to perform a clean reinstall. It worked in my case and I am replying after observing it to be true for months now.

For uninstall, I did it through "Add/Remove programs" and deleted Windows folders.

I have then installed only IE flash plug in and not the full version. Gosh, I am sorry, I dont remember how I did this one but it was definetly not full install. There were helpful inputs from someone else on this site that I followed cautiously. It really worked in my laptop's case, Dell Inspiron 6000 / 1.6 GHz / 2 GM RAM.

FOUND IT !

i had the same CPU problems with flash9 also.
The cpu went 100% in 3 occasions...
1.) when i watched youtube.com's films or any other site with flash based player
2.) when i played some flash games, mainly the ones in facebook.
3.) browsing flash made sites OR sites with numerous flash ads

I've tried every solution i've found on the internet and nothing worked for me.
Now i've resolved 1. and 3.
It was simple as installing latest flash 10 AND installing ALSO latest shockwave player 11. when i added shockwave to my firefox it seems shockwave renders you tube and web sites and there are no more hickups .. as for the facebook games the cpu went down from 100% to some 65-70% but there are other processes that use CPU also so alltogether im still on 100. unfortunately i think. that's the best you can do for now. some facebook games perform so badly probbably coz they are just baddly coded + the robust flash 10. some other flash games are performing well now after shockwave install.

I camed to idea about installing shockwave after reading some 3-4 yr old post from dreamveawer support about differences flash vs shockwave ... and they state that in case of both plugins shockwave will render advance dinamic feautres od one site and flash will do minor flash operations. It works for me. try it out, curios about knowing if it helped you also !

p.s. when i installed flash 10 i've noticed that some flash 9 files were still undeleted and probbably inteffering with new installation... check out windows/system32/macromed/flash dir for unwanted remains.

Greetings Vedran