Adobe Flash Player 10.3: Hardware-Accelerated Rendering in IE9

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 delivers
super-fast graphics by plugging into the Internet Explorer 9 hardware-accelerated
rendering pipeline using IE9’s
ISurfacePresenter interface. Recently, some of you may have seen
this rendering issue with Flash content on some pages:

Screen shots of a Web page with Flash content displayed incorrectly in its upper left corner (left) and correctly (right)

Adobe addressed the
problem illustrated above (Flash content displaying in the upper left corner) in
an
update to Flash Player – Version 10.3.181.16 will now display Flash content
correctly. This update is available through Flash Player auto-update notification
or at adobe.com.

As with any new Internet Explorer feature that we add, we want hardware acceleration
to be
fast, safe, error-free, interoperable and available on all computers that can run
Internet Explorer. Since the start of the Internet Explorer 9 development,
we worked continuously with our hardware and software partner companies to ensure
that your computers are up to date with the latest bug-free drivers and software
– and these partners are doing a great job of moving our entire ecosystem over to
this new era in computing with minimal glitches.

Your feedback as an enthusiast user has been instrumental in ensuring that we can
quickly follow up on any issues with this move – thank you very much.

As always, we welcome your feedback.

—Frank Olivier, Program Manager, Internet Explorer Web Graphics

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• Anonymous
  June 21, 2011
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• Anonymous
  June 21, 2011
  Still a great effort. congrat

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  June 21, 2011
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  June 21, 2011
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  June 21, 2011
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• Anonymous
  June 21, 2011
  But it doesn't run on Windows XP. Next time try building a browser for everyone.

• Anonymous
  June 21, 2011
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• Anonymous
  June 21, 2011
  Keep up the good work chaps.

• Anonymous
  June 21, 2011
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  June 21, 2011
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  June 21, 2011
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• Anonymous
  June 22, 2011
  The hardware accelaration is a great idea and works well on my main screen but I have a "Displaylink" attached screen which does not seem to support teh hardware acceleration feature. So basically when I move an IE 9 browser session from my main screen to my other screen it stops working.....not good...

• Anonymous
  June 22, 2011
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• Anonymous
  June 22, 2011
  Can you please do something for all those XP users out there? Google is doing something, so why don't you do something at least as useful? blog.chromium.org/.../introducing-non-admin-chrome-frame.html

• Anonymous
  June 22, 2011
  Unfortunately, my ATI RADEON X1600PRO, which I bought new when Vista came out, isn't supported by IE9. The driver was last updated in April 2009, and the manufacturer has no interest in updating it - they only want to support new hardware. So I'm stuck with a non-accelerated IE9, unless I want to shell out for a new graphics card. :(

• Anonymous
  June 22, 2011
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• Anonymous
  June 22, 2011
  Can you share a bit more about the ISurfacePresenter. In particular, I'm wondering what buffer does the GetBuffer method return? msdn.microsoft.com/.../ff975135%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Is this some DirectX object (e.g. IDirect3DSurface9) or a pointer to a bitmap in memory?

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  June 22, 2011
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  June 23, 2011
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  June 23, 2011
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• Anonymous
  June 28, 2011
  @Gordon - Ie9 supports HTML5 video. Why not WebM by default...get the lawyers out to solve that issue. blogs.msdn.com/.../html5-video-update-webm-for-ie9.aspx

• Anonymous
  June 28, 2011
  @Gordon - Ie9 supports HTML5 video. Why not WebM by default...get the lawyers out to solve that issue. blogs.msdn.com/.../html5-video-update-webm-for-ie9.aspx