Adobe Flash 10.1 BETA

[Smokey]

The Flash 10.1 BETA from Adobe will bring about significant improvements and features. The most notable one being GPU acceleration. Get a copy here to try it http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/. Please make sure that you are using the latest drivers for your video card before upgrading. My personal experience has shown that this BETA version reduces the CPU usage of flash by about 50% where I was averaging about 60% CPU usage in 10.0 and about 30% CPU usage in 10.1 BETA when watching HD videos on Hulu.com. To find out more view the release notes: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flas ... enotes.pdf

Supporting Hardware
[AMD/ATI]

Hardware video decoding of H.264 content in Flash Player 10.1 is supported on AMD/ATI products with UVD2 with the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite, starting with version 9.11 for the ATI Radeon™ family of products, and driver release 8.68 for the ATI FirePro™ family of products.

Radeon HD 4xxx (and higher)
Mobility Radeon HD 4xxx series (and higher)
Radeon HD 3xxx (and higher)
FirePro V3750, FirePro V5700, FirePro V7750, FirePro V8700, and FirePro V8750 (and later)

For the latest AMD/ATI drivers, see http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx. For some mobile and notebook systems, drivers may only be available from the OEM directly. Notebook drivers are not available from the AMD website.

[Broadcom]

Hardware video decoding of H.264 content in Flash Player 10.1 is supported on the Broadcom BCM70012 video decoding chipset, found in systems with Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced Video Accelerator hardware. Driver support is available at http://www.broadcom.com/support.

[Intel]

Hardware video decoding of H.264 content in Flash Player 10.1 is supported on the Intel® 4 Series Chipset family, starting with the graphics driver version 15.16.2.1986 for 32/64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7. These drivers are available from:
• 32-bit EXE: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ ... ldID=18334
• 64-bit EXE: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ ... ldID=18336
Or automatically detect the latest driver for your system by using this link: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/detect.htm.

[NVIDIA]

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 offers full GPU-acceleration for NVIDIA ION and supported NVIDIA GeForce-powered PCs. The following NVIDIA GPUs support H.264 hardware decoding with updated drivers. The latest drivers are available at http://www.nvidia.com/drivers.

[Desktop]
GeForce GTX 295
GeForce GTX 285
GeForce GTX 285 for Mac
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 275
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTS 250
GeForce GTS 240*
GeForce GTS 150*
GeForce GT 240
GeForce GT 230*
GeForce GT 130*
GeForce GT 120*
GeForce GT 220
GeForce 210
GeForce 205*
GeForce G100*
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 9400GT
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
GeForce 8800 GT
GeForce 8800 GS
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce 9400 mGPU
GeForce 9300 mGPU
GeForce 8300 mGPU
GeForce 8200 mGPU
GeForce 8100 mGPU

[Mobile]
Ion
Ion LE
GeForce GTX 280M
GeForce GTX 260M
GeForce GTS 260M
GeForce GTS 250M
GeForce GTS 160M
GeForce GTS 150M
GeForce GT 240M
GeForce GT 230M
GeForce GT 130M
GeForce G210M GeForce G110M
GeForce G105M
GeForce G102M
GeForce 9800M GTX
GeForce 9800M GT GeForce 9800M GTS
GeForce 9800M GS GeForce 9700M GTS
GeForce 9700M GT GeForce 9650M GS
GeForce 9600M GT
GeForce 9600M GS
GeForce 9500M GS
GeForce 9500M G
GeForce 9400M G
GeForce 9300M GS
GeForce 9300M G
GeForce 9200M GS
GeForce 9100M G
GeForce 8800M GTS
GeForce 8700M GT
GeForce 8600M GT
GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce 8400M GT
GeForce 8400M GS