[Pangaea]

This used to work before, but now it doesn't. Every time I put any video from YouTube on fullscreen, the screen is black with sound in the background. They must have changed something on their side, because nothing has been changed on my laptop. Oddly enough, it works on the normal computer.

I've been using Firefox 3.6.28 (don't like the outlay of the new ones, they have WORSE design, wtf). Because of that I couldn't use the latest flash, because it would just crash FF. Trying to solve the fullscreen issue I upgraded both FF and flash to the latest version, but to no avail. Still won't show in fullscreen. Any idea what is wrong? It's doing my head in

To the best of my knowledge I had the same setup on the desktop and it works there, but not on the laptop. The desktop does have XP instead of Win 7, but I wouldn't think that is an issue here (although XP in general is superior to W7).

[Sirnaq]

Have you tried it in other browsers? Opera for example?

[Guy N'wah]

Others have had this problem and succeeded by turning off hardware acceleration in Flash. Right-click, select "Settings...", uncheck "Enable hardware acceleration".

[hashim94]

Guy N said:

Others have had this problem and succeeded by turning off hardware acceleration in Flash. Right-click, select "Settings...", uncheck "Enable hardware acceleration". ›››

If that doesn't work, try it with Google Chrome.

[Pangaea]

Guy N said:

Others have had this problem and succeeded by turning off hardware acceleration in Flash. Right-click, select "Settings...", uncheck "Enable hardware acceleration". ›››

YES!!!!!!

Been wrangling with this for days and it's been doing my head in. Tried Opera as well with the same black screen result. Then I turn off hardware crapellation, and it finally works. Awesome!

Where is the +1,000,000 button?

[Pangaea]

I have a followup question, about cache. Sadly I have very little space left on my C disk, only 3-400MB. This means long videos won't be able to play properly due to the disk filling up, which oddly causes YT to skip to the next in the playlist, no matter how much is left of the current one. Is it possible to change the cache folder used for YouTube/Flash to a different disk, so this won't be a problem?

I've changed My Documents to a different disk and uninstalled what I can, so don't think there is much more that can be done space-wise, considering it's highly recommended to NOT delete the "Installer" and "$hf_mig$" folders in Windows. Combined these are some 6GB, of a 20GB partition. The whole Windows folder is 10GB.

Wish I had created a bigger partition way back when

[Guy N'wah]

Pangaea said:

I have a followup question, about cache. Sadly I have very little space left on my C disk, only 3-400MB. This means long videos won't be able to play properly due to the disk filling up, which oddly causes YT to skip to the next in the playlist, no matter how much is left of the current one. Is it possible to change the cache folder used for YouTube/Flash to a different disk, so this won't be a problem?

I've changed My Documents to a different disk and uninstalled what I can, so don't think there is much more that can be done space-wise, considering it's highly recommended to NOT delete the "Installer" and "$hf_mig$" folders in Windows. Combined these are some 6GB, of a 20GB partition. The whole Windows folder is 10GB.

Wish I had created a bigger partition way back when /> ›››

Flash keeps its own cache, which is in your profile under Application Data
(Application Data\Adobe\Flash Player\AssetCache)

Moving your Application Data folder or your entire profile is painful and may break some applications. It doesn't move easily the way your "Library" folders (My Documents, etc.) can be moved in Vista and W7. It is possible, but you must be very comfortable with editing the Registry and Windows system administration in general.

Flash does not store a subfolder name in the Registry, so there's no way to move just the Flash cache and not your whole Application Data folder or Profile folder.

Adobe's wares are well-nigh indispensable, but their unwillingness to play nice with other components of your PC just bites the wax tadpole.

[Pangaea]

Eugh. Moving the whole Application Data folder would indeed be a rather sore bumpain. Shame they couldn't just use a registry entry for it, that would make things easier.

Went through things once again, and moved some TW1 files over to a different disk. For some reason the additional adventures are stored somewhere Shared Documents, and not in the My Documents folder (whether that is on C: or not). Very weird setup. Removing that, however, gave me almost 1GB, so then it's a bit easier to watch long videos. Amazing how quickly it fills up from watching 720 and especially 1080 videos though. Thankfully 1GB meant I could watch ~30mins of 1080 videos, and by skipping to after that point later on, it doesn't cache the first part. So it's somewhat manageable now.

Should really do a complete re-install of everything, but that is a massive undertaking. And with the daily powercuts, it would be pretty darn dangerous too... Think I just have to endure until I have the economy to find a new place to live and a new computer, in roughly 2028.