Cannot play 1080p50 videos on Youtube. Vid card or processor?

[JMapleton]

When I try to play 1080p50 videos on YouTube, my computer skips. I observe my Task Manager CPU Usage meter and my CPU does not appear to go higher than 50%, so would this imply my video card?

I have a Intel i3 530 Clarkdale with a Nvidia 9500 GT. I know it's old, but I'm waiting for Skylake (maybe Cannnonlake) to upgrade.

Ideas?

 

[jji7skyline]

What browser? I've noticed recently that Chrome on my computer's been lagging heaps so I've switched to Firefox.

 

[postmortemIA]

HTML5 or Flash player?

 

[JMapleton]

Chrome with flash.

I just tried playing it in Firefox and interestingly it doesn't have a "1080p50" option, only the 1080.

I guess my basic question is, does the video card effect how actual videos are played? I've noticed I cannot play 4k videos on YouTube, but unlike the 1080p50 videos, when it skips, my CPU usage maxes out.

 

[RaistlinZ]

There's got to be something better than a 9500 GT you can get for cheap. It's worth trying at least.

 

[JMapleton]

There's got to be something better than a 9500 GT you can get for cheap. It's worth trying at least.

I guess my question is, is my video card causing any of this lag? I don't have a problem spending money, I just don't want to spend on something that won't help, especially for a computer that has possible less than a year left of usage.

 

[mfenn]

Try disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome and seeing if that changes anything.

 

[JMapleton]

Try disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome and seeing if that changes anything.

I actually just disabled it, then re-enabled it and it works so much better and my CPU usage has doubled but the lag has stopped. Wow. Thanks. It's like it wasn't taking full advantage of my CPU before.

 

[mfenn]

I actually just disabled it, then re-enabled it and it works so much better and my CPU usage has doubled but the lag has stopped. Wow. Thanks. It's like it wasn't taking full advantage of my CPU before.

:thumbsup: Glad it worked! My theory was that Chrome wasn't using the correct DXVA mode for the video, and disabling hardware acceleration would make it revert to pure software decoding. It sounds like re-enabling it caused it to redetect your hardware and not pick the bad DXVA mode.

 

[JMapleton]

:thumbsup: Glad it worked! My theory was that Chrome wasn't using the correct DXVA mode for the video, and disabling hardware acceleration would make it revert to pure software decoding. It sounds like re-enabling it caused it to redetect your hardware and not pick the bad DXVA mode.

Awesome. I fashion myself a poweruser but that's far beyond my knowledge.