game lag Lag when watching videos

[Drake5]

if I have a game open and youtube, I will notice the game lagging until I close youtube

When I had a 970 I never had this issue but now I have a 470 I have this issue

i3 6100
470 4GB


Anyone know

 

[Confused Stu]

Answered your other post in the AMD driver thread before I saw this one. Easiest solution is to turn off hardware acceleration in your browser to stop the cards clocks dropping from "gaming" levels to "playing video" levels.

 

[Drake5]

I've tried that but it hasn't really fixed it

I thought it could have been because both my monitors were set to 59Hz but I changed them to 60Hz and that didn't fix it either, seem to be losing about 10FPS when a youtube video is up

 

[Orcvader]

What browser? I notice certain videos that uses h.264 causes my 7950 to drop to stock speeds until I close the page with the video. VP9 videos on YouTube however doesn't affect me (GCN 1 doesn't have a VP9 decoder).

 

[Drake5]

chrome

 

[Boomstick777]

I get this with GTX 1070 and Mozilla. Internet Explorer seems to work fine, so I just use that for streaming movies etc when gaming.

 

[smogsy]

i get the oppsite

Chrome Youtube + any game (even WoW)

Certain actions in game (like opening,closing,some loading screens) the video freezes until its finished.

from memory if i turn off HW acceleration it disappears. so try that in your browser

 

[Drake5]

It even does this when I'm not watching a youtube video, for example if I have a big website open with a lot of information and pictures on it, something like wowhead then I'll lose about 10fps in game

Could it be something to do with having 8GB RAM? My ram usage isn't maxed out and my CPU usage isn't either

 

[beany_bot]

Chrome could be hogging your ram?
I didn't believe it myself until I checked, but playing rust and surfing Chrome was using all 8GB of my RAM! hence the move to 16GB.

 

[Drake5]

edit

 

[ShakeNBake]

whats ur RAM usage looking like

 

[DarkBahamut]

Could it be something to do with having 8GB RAM? My ram usage isn't maxed out and my CPU usage isn't either

Maybe. Many people incorrectly assume that if RAM usage isn't at 100% (or very high) then they have enough RAM. That's not really true as Windows takes actions against memory usage very early, even a system using ~50% RAM is likely showing some signs of windows taking actions against memory usage to keep things under control. Anything at >80% is really going to be under pressure.

I personally don't even consider 16GB ideal for a new build these days. It's alright if you run very lean, but anyone expecting to keep a bunch of chrome tabs open, plus a game, plus any communication apps of choice and so on will quickly find windows memory management moving to drive memory usage down and that once pushed hard enough will start impacting performance.

We have a second machine here with 32GB RAM, and I've seen that box north of 22GB in use while gaming quite a few times. It's very clear how much memory these system would like to be using if they could!

 

[Rozzy85]

I get this sometimes with my 290X. The memory clock fluctuates when the video is playing causing annoying stuttering in games. Only thing that seems to stop it is to alt-tab out, minimise the browser rather than hit "Show Desktop" and then go back to the game. Doesn't always work so alternatively I set the video quality to the lowest possible to reduce load which helps stop it.

 

[Orcvader]

It even does this when I'm not watching a youtube video, for example if I have a big website open with a lot of information and pictures on it, something like wowhead then I'll lose about 10fps in game

Could it be something to do with having 8GB RAM? My ram usage isn't maxed out and my CPU usage isn't either

Checking wowhead it still has videos in certain articles, which even not playing will still trigger the video decoder on the GPU.