Flash Player and Steam

(ST)Pohaku · 30 Nov 2010 at 22:44

New build, new install of everything.

Steam wants 'another version' of Flash Player to display all the gubbins. Following their link to Adobe's site brings me a message that my version of Chrome already has the up to date version of Flash installed, and no option to download it anyway.

So I try (boo-hiss) I.E. to open the link, and it lets me crack on with the download.

It's downloading at... 200 BYTES per second.

WTF?

EDIT: 99 bytes per second. So looking like 2-3 hours for a 2.5MB file. Anybody else had this crap?

theheyes · 30 Nov 2010 at 23:02

Just slow on this particular download? Personally I'd try again later or even tomorrow. It happens sometimes.

(ST)Pohaku · 1 Dec 2010 at 08:09

It was that particular download, and the same this morning - managed to sort it by grabbing the installer from Filehippo instead.

Link for anyone who has same problem and finds this thread:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_flashplayer_firefox/

Download, install, restart Steam.

:-)

Fillado · 1 Dec 2010 at 08:19

Don't ask me why but for some reason Adobe's servers go to a crawl during the evening (UK time). Fine in the morning/day though.

I also thought Steam got rid of its requirement for Flash when they created this new multi-platform client?