Jerky 1080 YouTube, Twitch and Netflix. Semi HPTC/STEAM machine

David_VI

David_VI

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Just got a 6450 for an old HP pavilion slim, core2duo 2.2ghz, 2gb ram, running Vista.
Got the 6450 as needed hdmi to use with TV. Also was told it would mean YouTube and other video services would be able to run at 1080.


Games are smooth and so far steam streaming is surprisingly good.

But YouTube, Netflix and even Google music are not fluid at all.

It's a freshly formatted system. Although it's a bit unresponsive, opening or closing explorer windows can be a bit jerky too. But games seem fine?!

Any ideas?
 
Not at home atm but I recall it being high. Surely that load should be on the gpu? Would that possibly be the problem?
 
2gb Ram is probably cutting it pretty fine for vista. Dunno if hitting the page file would make Youtube stutter though.
 
Odd because this pc shipped with Vista and those specs.
A harddrive wouldn't cause this would it? It seems weird having an unresponsive UI on a mostly clean install.

Another thing, steam big picture doesn't feel as fluid as it should.

Games appear fine oddly enough.
 
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Odd because this pc shipped with Vista and those specs.
A harddrive wouldn't cause this would it? It seems weird having an unresponsive UI on a mostly clean install.

Games appear fine oddly enough.
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I have to use an OEM dell machine with xp that has 512mb of RAM. Its never not using all of it :(
 
Well this system was in use and appeared fine when in use previously before I decided to formatted it to use as a steambox lounge pc.
 
are they using the html 5 players, or flash?

The load *should* all be on your gpu. not your CPU. But I would have thought the CPU could have coped easily enough anyway.

RAM/HDD could be the problem, if its having to dump it to HDD and then read from that.
 
Have you completely updated it with latest Windows updates, etc. ? is it very jerky/stuttery stop/start or more like slightly uneven framerate?

Reason I ask I'm wondering if a recent Windows update has broken something related to video playback.
 
Maybe I should format again to eliminate that. I did install the gpu after having the system ready and up to date for a few days so can't be sure how it performed to start with.
 
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