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Flash Player 7 crashes on Internet Explorer in VirtualBox
- Guest OS: Windows 98 SE, Windows 95
- SoftGPU Version: v0.6.2024.40-alpha3
- VirtualBox version: 7.0.10 r158379
- Host OS: Windows 10 x64 22H2 build 19045.5011
- Display drivers: VBoxVGA, VBoxSVGA, VMWare SVGA-II
- Display mode: All (VGA 16 colors all the way up to 32-bit 1024x768)
Flash Player 7 (and also 6 in Windows 95) cause crashes with Internet Explorer when rendering certain SWF files, particularly with complex effects such as gradients and possibly font smoothing. Sample offending SWF.
The error reports an invalid page fault in an unknown module (possibly the plugin), but it might be related to VMHAL or one of the OpenGL modules.
This only occurs on Internet Explorer regardless of the version of IE, other web browsers work fine. Flash Player 6, 8 and 9 (Win98 only) also work without any problems.
I did manage to somehow get it to work by tweaking some settings in the installer on Windows 98, but I have yet to figure out which setting exactly.
I've isolated the issue without softgpu at all, and it seems like it still occurs. Could this be something that vmdisp9x could potentially fix? I noticed that these versions of Flash Player rely on GDI instead of DirectDraw for displaying vector graphics.