Windows 8: serious brakes with Adobe Flash Player?

Question

Adobe

I don't know what happened, but this week Flash on my system was eating 80% of the processor power, with minimal load. Regardless of the browser. I did not notice at what specific moment it started, but it seems after the last update of the player. Has anyone come across this, or am I the only one who got caught?

Well, after that - is there any way to download the old version of Flash Player?

Answer 1

There is, yes.
It helps me if you kill the dwm.exe process
2 times you have to kill it, because after the first kill it starts again.
On a laptop with an atom, it is generally impossible to use a flash without such shamanism.
And what is the problem - most interesting.

Answer 2

The solution to the problem came suddenly, or rather not even a solution, but revealed the cause of the brakes. Roughly speaking, on Windows 8, Flash hardware acceleration does not work on my ATI 4870. Taking into account that ATI refused to support drivers for old models of video cards (well, like old ones, 2-3 years ago) for Win8, this is probably not surprising. We turn off the hardware acceleration of the flash (right-click on the flash and go to the parameters), and we get a noticeable increase in speed (but the truth is already due to the processing power). How to treat hardware support is not known.