# Candy Crush flashing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-crush-flashing/694471>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 31, 2014, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-crush-flashing/694471 "2014-07-31T06:55:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-crush-flashing/694471/1 "2014-07-31T06:55:01Z")

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I play a lot of Candy Crush, on an older MacBook. Recently, Firefox was having trouble and I couldn’t upgrade anymore on the OS I already had, so I had 10.6.8 installed and updated Firefox. This fixed everything with the browser except now when I’m playing Candy Crush, it flickers/flashes which is very irritating - this doesn’t happen on any other page, tho CC is the only game I play on the laptop. I updated Flash but that didn’t help. Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-crush-flashing/694471/2 "2014-07-31T08:09:51Z")

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Adobe suggest Flash player 12. (Rather than 13) for 10.6.8

1. Download and run the Flash Uninstaller from:

2. Download and install the latest non 12.x version of Flash

See

> **[ATTENTION MAC CUSTOMERS - Flash Player 13 "Plugin Failure" Solution](https://community.adobe.com/t5/flash-player-discussions/attention-mac-customers-flash-player-13-quot-plugin-failure-quot-solution/td-p/6035051)**
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> Update 4/16 I'm pleased to announce that Flash Player 13.0.0.201 for Mac is now available from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer.  This release resolves the crash described in this thread.  As noted below, you can either download this...

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**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-crush-flashing/694471/3 "2014-07-31T19:31:48Z")

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Thank you for trying, but unfortunately it’s still doing it after I installed Flash 12. Sigh. May be time to replace this laptop …

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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-crush-flashing/694471/4 "2014-08-02T14:40:12Z")

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Well there are drivers for MaC OS … You can get an idea of what video hardware you have by this method… [Update Mac OS X Graphics Driver](http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/graphics/updatemac.html)

Then the manufacturer , [AMD.com](http://AMD.com) for ATI, or [nvidia.com](http://nvidia.com) for Nvidia… , may have the driver

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**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-crush-flashing/694471/5 "2014-08-03T03:44:49Z")

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I got the list of what all I have, but I haven’t been able to translate it into whether I have ATI or Nvidia? Or what driver I might need?