For serious- why is flash running on cpu?

[Comdrpopnfresh]

I'm beginning to wonder what exactly one has to do to have flash video actually be gpu-accelerated. I'm running win8rp, with an amd 5450, and of course ie10. It's 2012; there is no reason for this Adobe/AMD bs. Inexcusable that my e7200 is having to cover on hulu videos, or anything else for that matter.

Is the story different on NVidia gpu's? Because this is getting to the point where I'll jump ship to have hardware that does what it is advertised to do. I don't btc mine anymore, so I'm getting no tangible benefit for having an AMD gpu in this system. Or the 6950 I have in another. This is pathetic.

 

[toyota]

are you kidding? right click on the video and select hardware acceleration. you have to refresh the page after that but from then on Flash will use your gpu until you deselect it.

 

[Red Hawk]

PEBKAC. AMD drivers have supported hardware accelerated Flash playback since 2009.

 

[ShintaiDK]

You need to install 12.8 drivers if you are in Win8.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

are you kidding? right click on the video and select hardware acceleration. you have to refresh the page after that but from then on Flash will use your gpu until you deselect it.

given that that box is checked by default, that's not the issue

 

[toyota]

given that that box is checked by default, that's not the issue

my apologies then but you should make that clear in the op.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

You need to install 12.8 drivers if you are in Win8.

got them on an hour ago. no difference. >30% cpu utilization while playing video. GPU loading is a bit higher, and more consistent on fullscreen, but absolutely 0 when not in fullscreen.

 

[chimaxi83]

GPU accelerated Hulu is really that serious, I take it?

 

[KingFatty]

I for one enjoy GPU accelerated video on a very old laptop I connected to my TV.

It's so old, slow core 2 duo, with Nvidia 8600M GT. But flash is hardware accelerated by that old GPU, so I enjoy buttery smooth 1080p playback, with Youtube or Hulu or whatever (including my own Bluray and other H.264 1080p video sources).

I know it's GPU accelerated based on the update that flash put out a couple years ago, because my CPU can't support smooth playback by itself and would stutter before flash came out with the hardware accelerated update. You should be able to find a list of AMD supported GPUs that adobe will support for hardware playback in flash.

But just hold out a bit, and pretty soon the web will move to H.264 video that your 5450 will be able to decode natively (I mean, just as if you played it back in windows media player etc. where it's smooth and not held back by flash wrapper).

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

PEBKAC. AMD drivers have supported hardware accelerated Flash playback since 2009.

CORRECTION- AMD drivers have stated such since 2009. Just like they've had full on-gpu opencl support for some time too. Yet, for those who mine for BTC, it's very very common to see pleas for assistance when gpu loading is 0, and cpu is melting a hole to China. Don't care what they say, because if we're going on that, then I've had consistent accelerated flash since 2009 and you're trippin, imagining this post altogether.

Don't see how I can be the issue on a fresh system (and about half a dozen others in various states) when the AMD graphics driver, which is pretty much a one-click install, is the only driver I didn't leave up to windows. If that's the incorrect process for installing a driver to get fully functional hardware, then AMD can go ____ themselves right now.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

GPU accelerated Hulu is really that serious, I take it?

didn't have time to check all the other flash-driven video sites on the net. oops.

"example"

and when it's 100 degrees outside, and a tower is pumping out heat because video is inefficiently being decoded on a cpu instead of gpu like it should be for 1080p on a television, then yeah. Generally when something isn't working it's serious enough to the extent that it should be fixed.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

I for one enjoy GPU accelerated video on a very old laptop I connected to my TV.

It's so old, slow core 2 duo, with Nvidia 8600M GT. But flash is hardware accelerated by that old GPU, so I enjoy buttery smooth 1080p playback, with Youtube or Hulu or whatever (including my own Bluray and other H.264 1080p video sources).

I know it's GPU accelerated based on the update that flash put out a couple years ago, because my CPU can't support smooth playback by itself and would stutter before flash came out with the hardware accelerated update. You should be able to find a list of AMD supported GPUs that adobe will support for hardware playback in flash.

But just hold out a bit, and pretty soon the web will move to H.264 video that your 5450 will be able to decode natively (I mean, just as if you played it back in windows media player etc. where it's smooth and not held back by flash wrapper).

Had a laptop years ago w/ a NVidia gpu that did the same. Set my expectations, which are not currently being met

 

[Schmide]

Weeding through all this drama. What AMD driver did you install?

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

Weeding through all this drama. What AMD driver did you install?

lol. thanks for asking something constructive! the latest 12.8 release. Before that, whatever was the release for the last week. System has been up for about that long. x64 version for win8.

 

[Schmide]

I have to say beta drivers on a beta os with old hardware, prob the last stuff they expect to be running new stuff, you really shouldn't be so dramatic when things don't work.