Black Block Artifacts on Youtube Videos??

lettuce · 31 Oct 2016 at 20:31

I have just noticed this happening the last few days, basically when i start a new YouTube video for the first 2 seconds or so i get black block artifacts appear on the video and then disappear, like this....

Doesn't happen all the time just to the point now where its bugging me, any ideas what the cause might be?

BigBoy · 31 Oct 2016 at 20:49

What Web browser are you using?

lettuce · 31 Oct 2016 at 20:52

Chrome

Orcvader · 1 Nov 2016 at 11:51

Have you tried disabling hardware accleration in Chrome to see if that helps?

lettuce · 1 Nov 2016 at 22:20

No, but as i said i havent had this issue before, just been the last couple of days

Orcvader · 1 Nov 2016 at 22:22

Disable it and see how it goes, it could be Chrome silently updated and has somehow messed up with decoding or the video decoder on your GPU is starting to play up. Alternatively, Windows 10 may have "updated" the GPU drivers to an older one without you knowing, which the W10 AU seems to do every now and then.

Madeddie · 2 Nov 2016 at 02:03

Latest nvidia drivers - I get it too.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...read-released-10-28-16-/post/5006276/#5006276

Sin_Chase · 2 Nov 2016 at 05:34

Happens on GIFs also.

Twirlywoos · 2 Nov 2016 at 14:17

Madeddie said:
Latest nvidia drivers - I get it too.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...read-released-10-28-16-/post/5006276/#5006276

thanks man, I get that black artificating in everything. Imgur, gifs, youtube, twitch

Fubsy · 2 Nov 2016 at 14:55

I got it as well after updating my GPU drivers. Glad to know it's fixed in the next lot.

Twirlywoos · 2 Nov 2016 at 20:28

driver fix out now
https://twitter.com/nvidiacc/status/793898108740472832?lang=en

Orcvader · 3 Nov 2016 at 11:43

As well as the driver fix, Chrome has been updated as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/5aqsgo/the_latest_version_of_chrome_540284087_fixed_the/

Seems to disable a feature on the decoder to stop the bug from happening.

lettuce · 5 Nov 2016 at 13:16

Hmmm, i have the latest drivers for my 1070, but im still getting the black artifacts on videos (never noticed it on animated Gifs however)

Destination · 6 Nov 2016 at 09:56

Sin_Chase said:
Happens on GIFs also.

I get this sometimes on the first play of agif, imgur is a complete mess, using edge chrome and ff, tried all three, perfect playback after a loop.
Amd ati here, up to date drivers, has occurred for me for a full year.