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Wow, nothing like bumbing a year old post, but I'm having the exact same problems with a Kiosk I'm troubleshooting right now.

During development I was working on Windows 7 and saw no problems. Once the fullscreen flash projector was put on the Kiosk machine running WinXP it would randomly freeze. Sometimes it would run perfectly fine through out an evening until the next morning and sometimes it would freeze 5 minutes after the machine was turned on. The same thing as other people report, it seems to actually be running the program, but the on screen animation has frozen. Bringing the projector out of fullscreen mode with ctrl-F or esc will "fix" the problem and the animation will start back up, you can then go back into fullscreen mode, but it will freeze again after a random period of time.

I probably have a bit of a unique kiosk setup that forces me to run WinXP and hardware acceleration, so that suggested fix won't work for me. My kiosk is running 4 widscreen monitors in a row as two side by side spanned desktops. I require hardware acceleration in order to properly run the Nvidia control panel which allows the machine to have spanned desktops. The machine is a quite powerful machine with a 3Ghz Dual Core processor, 2 Gigs of RAM and dual Nvidia Geforce cards.

I am building the projectors using the latest flash player 10.0 r42 and the hardware acceleration is set to none on my publish settings. The application was programmed in AS3 and authored using Flash CS4.

Another observation based on my unique layout, I have two projectors running at once, one fullscreen on each spanned desktop. Only the projector that has focus seems to be freezing. The 2nd projector that does not have the systems focus will continue running normally. Also, possibly by co-incidence it seems to freeze when not being used, but based on how random the freezing is that may just be luck so far.

Unfortunately I don't have easy access to the Kiosk so I am trying to test on a VMware virtual machine and I am able to recreate the screen freezing effect.

Any more ideas or solutions out there?

Thanks for the sample code; I'm looking in this issue.

I did fix this problem by lowering (I was not able to disable in my specific case) the hardware acceleration slider on the graphics card troubleshooting tab.

Thanks for looking into this IHelpU, I will post my projector files that would freeze randomly in Windows XP. I'll send you a private message with their location.

In my case, what had happened is when I animate with the timeline... was sooo slow. When I tried to animate by AS, only could see the last step of the animation. At the end, I have discovered that I cannot use "FILTERS", because when I was using the Drop Shadow, everything went as you said, freeze.

Try to remove all the filters.

I have the same issue. I am also working on a kiosk, so fullscreen is badly needed. I have tested the same application on another machine with ATI graphics card and 64  bit XP and it seems not to produce the same issue. The original freezing machine runs on an Nvidia card and 32bit XP. I have tried the following whitout any luck:

- setting hardware acceleration of in the Flash player

- in the Nvidia control panel setting all 3d acceleration to none (or optimize for performance)

I am using Flash player v 10.0.45.2.

I would like to try the flash player 10.1 beta, but theere seems to be no projector player available on adobe labs. Any idea where i could get that?

Same problem! Does everyone have Nvidia? I see a lot of that when googleing

Oi...this really is a lingering problem. I'm seeing the same thing on Win XP 32 AND 64 with nVidia graphics cards.

I see this issue crop up MOSTLY when Alt-Tabbing between windows and when things show up over the Flash projector (outlook/im notifications, etc). But it does also happen randomly.

Hi guys,

may be a little late but I thought I'd share this with you all as I've spent hours trying to fix this problem, simply right click on the flash.exe whilst it is running, select settings and uncheck 'enable hardware acceleration' which is located in the first tab of the adobe flash player settings menu.

Good luck