By yesterday I meant Thursday afternoon, I didnt realize I posted after midnight. Whenever 235 came out that day, It wasnt available when I updated. I tried updating to that today but then all the flash videos said "you need to install Flash Player to view this" and what not...I guess bad installation or something...the flashplayer plugin download (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/install_flash_p layer_64bit.exe) worked though, and apparently that (as of 3 hours ago when I tried the latest reinstall) was still 233.

Hardware Acceleration off or on, no change.

Diplay driver is NVIDIA 296.10, which was released in March and is the latest stable version. FP was working fine most of April and all of March.

I did actually try Watefox for about an hour and the problem existed there as well. Along what entire browser scoring half as high on every single browser speed test I performed....

I appreciate your help even though you did not know the answer. Thak you for trying.

I have done all those steps that apply to me (I dont use avast or IE) and zero difference at all.it seems like you did not read my posts, I  stated in my original post that I followed all the FAQs and help guides already .  my videos PLAY...they just don't load completely. They load partially..then stop buffering about 40-70% of the way in.. Again, I know it IS a flash issue and not a network issue because HMTL5 videos work 100% of the time, and I have no connection issues in gaming,downloading, and such. My father's computer on the same network also does not have the issues I am having. I appreicate your attempt at helping me.

edit: Just wanted to add the plugin installer has been properly updated to 235 so I'm using that now. Issue still exists.

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.I've tried all the things listed on the FAQs such as disabling HMTL5, clearing cache, completely installation. deleting Flash's cache completey, ect ect....no changes at all.

Also, the problem is not isolated to youtube. It's

every video site, every video

like I said in the original post. I've cleared my cache, my history, my cookies, reinstalled flash properly all about 5+ times in the past week with zero differences made. I've tried chrome, waterfox, firefox...zero difference.

That feature seems to ONLY work on youtube...which doesnt help since I use HMTL5 on there anyway. When I switched back to flash and did a speed test on there though, I'm getting 11.04 which is nearly double the USA average, and is double the global average according to their graphics. my connection is not an issue. on speedtest.net I average 2.5 MB/s-4 MB/s which is also higher than most home networks. It really seems like something in  version 233 that was not fixed in 235 is the cause of all this since 233 is when i started having these issues

Thank you Chris Campbell for your reply and support. Unfortutnely reverting to older versions did not solve my problem. It was worth the try though, and I really appreciate any ideas given.