Chrome: Disable Hardware Acceleration improves performance?

Kaiju · 26 Nov 2018 at 17:39

How come disabling this in Chrome improves performance when I have a GTX1050 with the latest drivers installed. [email protected], 16GB RAM, Win 10.

When it's enabled, skipping videos in YouTube is laggy and unresponsive. With it disabled, smooth as butter.

jpaul · 26 Nov 2018 at 21:25

maybe utube vp9 level codec support has problems on 1050 ... quick google

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...i-powerful-enough-to-play-4k-hdr-on-youtube-/

have you looked at utube stats in both modes, does the codec change ? maybe w/o h/w acceleration it uses h264 stream

Kaiju · 27 Nov 2018 at 07:20

I'll check tonight after work but what I found strange was 4k and 8k videos on Youtube with hardware acceleration enabled in Chrome worked fine, buttery smooth.

When I try 1080p with hardware acceleration enabled it has difficulty, especially when skipping through the video.

It's like the 1050 only wants to work with 4k and above videos....

Kaiju · 27 Nov 2018 at 15:19

Hmmm, came home, booted up and everything is working fine with hardware acceleration enabled.