Steam enable hardware video decoding?.

[skipper847]

So my problem turned out to be steam it self all these years of having shimmering and jaggy edges. It turned out to be enable hardware video decoding in steam options. Apparently this option is for low end PC or graphic card so when I disabled it and restarted steam the performance went up. Like I said be for no matter what graphic setting I was using in game it would be the same performance which was slow and not having constant frames. Now I can even play Far cry 4 on ultra with no problems at 144hz.

I have a Asus strix 970 gtx so would this have been the cause with Steam enable hardware video decoding enabled?.

 

[joeyjojo]

Seems unlikely. I would guess that option is for videos on the store pages and nothing to do with games.

 

[SkeeterUK]

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/1/611696927922532745/

But steam can cause fps and or quality issues as i found out from detecting frame issues and a lot of tearing because i launched star trek online through steam. Launch it from its own launcher without steam, and its night and day the quality was and fps.

Dunno how much other games can have issues as most games dont have a way to play without using steam.

And nope nothing to do with steam overlay, as tried with and without. Defo the hook steam uses for games that did it.

 

[Aretak]

Only the Steam overlay could possibly cause issues like that. You can turn it off on a game by game basis if it's causing problems with a certain title (although I've never experienced any myself).

 

[skipper847]

I turned everything off what I didn't or never used. Streaming, Overlay, Big Picture mode. Also what don't work on steam is the FPS counter even high contrast colour. I turned screen shots off and sounds too.

The first thing I did though was turn off hardware video decoding which seemed to help the most. When watching videos now when its in a window inside a web page I don't get this awful shimmer effect.