Unable to Play On-Line Games

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Unable to Play On-Line Games

Hi
I've been having trouble playing online games on my new Imac. For example I play one particular game on candystand.com called Bullpen Blast. First when I try going to the site of the particular game it asks me to download a particular software (Abode Media Player). I did it. After doing this the game still does not load. I've been experiencing this with other online games. I do understand that many games do not work on Apple Computers but I thought online games are suppose to work.

Please advise.

Happy Holidays.

Imac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Dec 25, 2009 4:03 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 25, 2009 4:41 PM in response to Anthony sclafani

If you try the same thing using FireFox or Camino

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html

http://caminobrowser.org/

do you have the same problem? I'm not saying just use a different browser; I'm trying to help with identifying the actual cause of this problem.

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Answer 2

Dec 26, 2009 9:23 AM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

It seems like some of the games play with work very well on Mozilla so far but the Bullpen blast does not work too well. It will come on but it's very choppy and it does not load all of the way. But thanks anyway since it appears it's mostly the issue of the browser.

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Answer 3

Dec 26, 2009 12:40 PM in response to Anthony sclafani

If you want to try to make it work with Safari, there are a few things that may help.

You can reset Safari, which is a command under the Safari menu.

For odd issues, it sometimes helps to remove the Safari user preference file to let a fresh one be created. It is located here; drag it to your Desktop.

<user home folder>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

Online games probably use Flash, so you can try going to Adobe.com and downloading/installing the latest Flash.

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Answer 4

Dec 27, 2009 1:34 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

I did try it on Safari after resetting it and putting it on 32 bit-mode but that did not work.

It does load on Firefox and Camino but the quality is very poor. I have to adjust the mouse to get a good screen. To give a example, one of the games is Bullpen Blast on candystand.com. The games on there, for the most part, are not Flash games, they're shockwave games.

I'm not worried about it working on Safari but I would like it to work better on Firefox or even Camino.

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Answer 5

Dec 27, 2009 1:37 PM in response to Anthony sclafani

Make sure you have the latest version of ShockWave Player installed

http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

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Answer 6

Dec 27, 2009 4:07 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

I do.

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