NVIDIA Display Driver Crash With Adobe Flash Player

[corkyo4]

Hi All,

It seems with the last few versions of the NVIDIA drivers for my XFXforce 9800 GTX+ I get a consistent crash of the display drivers.

The crash only occurs when I load up a video using Adobe Flash Player, most often YouTube.

If I am lucky the screen will go black and then the picture will return with a windows notification of the display driver failing.

If I am unlucky the screen remains black.

So far I have tried reinstalling the drivers (several versions) having using driversweeper to clean them off. This has failed, installing newer version of the drivers has also failed to solve this issue. The only thing I have left to do is to revert back to an older version, but I am reluctant to do this since I am keen to have the latest drivers.

Has anyone else experienced a similar issue? Is there a fix available? I am stuggling to think of things to try to isolate the problem to a particular file/issue etc.

System Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16GHz) clocked to 4.00GHz (and is stable)
Motherboard ASUS P5QC iP45 Socket 775
4.00 GB Ram Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2
320GB Maxtor HDD for Windows
2x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F series
XFXforce NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX+
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

 

[Drangueos]

1st thing I would do is removing the overclock..

I had a computer before that could run anything when overclocked, games, prime, chrome but If I was using IE and flash at same time the windows would crash... lowering the overclock fixed the problem.

 

[Puppetmaster]

Disable hardware acceleration for flash. Find something thats running flash, right click and settings I think its under. Will likely solve it. I seem to find that half the time it causes issues whether its AMD or Nvidia.