I recently have been having trouble viewing games. I have the latest flash player, but games such as the last stand have been asking me to download it. The area where the game is supposed to be is blank of some other games I frequently play. In the center there is a exclamation mark and a round circle around it.
I don't know why this is happening now, never before. Could someone pelase help?
The generic memory error icon was added in Flash Player version 10.1 and will appear within a browser when the Flash Player has been particularly abused or is running in a very low memory environment. The icon, affectionately known as the Gray Circle of Death (GCOD), is a gray circle with a white exclamation mark within it.
It is not just an icon, however. It is a sign that Flash is protecting your computer from an application that is asking for more memory than your browser has available. The browser will crash if it runs out of memory and that is a Very Bad Thing. If that happens your browser may crash or your computer may crash and need a restart. Flash now has the feature in which it shuts down an application if that application causes a memory problem.
Most important to most people is not what the GCOD is, but how to make it go away. In all cases, an application does not have enough memory to run. The application could be needing a reasonable amount of memory but the browser does not have that much memory available. On the other hand, the application could also go into a death spiral because of a programming error and suck up every bit of memory available in even the heftiest computers. There are many ways for an application to overrun its memory.
When the GCOD is seen,the first course of action is to contact the developer of the Flash application. I have a decent computer and I have only seen the GCOD appear because of the coding of the application. The GCOD is not a problem Flash Player causes. You see it when the safety valve has blown.
I had this happen to me once on Armor Games. All I had to do was refresh the page. If the game is taking up too much memory because of a programming problem, then I do not see how contacting Adobe will help. But that is the gist of the problem, over excessive memory usage.
