hardware acceleration in Chrome

[toyota]

not sure if this is the right pace to post this but hardware acceleration uses the gpu does it not? well Chrome has pissed me off in so many ways over the years and this hardware acceleration issue seems to come and go. with it on, Flash is not that smooth and will hitch. with it off, Flash will run perfectly smooth but then HTML5 will not look all that smooth and neither does whatever Netflix is using.

Internet Explorer plays everything just fine of course. I just want to scream sometimes at how crappy Chrome is with things like this. there are other issues I have with it with it too but they would not be related to hardware acceleration so I will not rant about those.

 

[Red Hawk]

Netflix still uses Microsoft Silverlight, IIRC.

 

[toyota]

Netflix still uses Microsoft Silverlight, IIRC.

I thought so too but when I right click it no longer says Silverlight. and they said a few months ago they were going HTML5. in fact there used be option in playback settings to prefer HTML5 over Silverlight and thats not there anymore so maybe they have already fully switched to HTML5.


and really that is not the point. its the fact that they can never have both HTML5 and Flash work 100% correctly at the same time. I just dont understand how they can be so incompetent. I guess the fact that average user is a moron probably helps. I have seen people look right at a hitching video and say it looks fine until I play it in Internet Explorer and then they see what its supposed to look like.

 

[dontsh00tmesanta]

Doesn't seem to work for my 7770

 

[AnandThenMan]

Why use Chrome, use Cyberfox there is an Intel and AMD optimized version.

 

[toyota]

Why use Chrome, use Cyberfox there is an Intel and AMD optimized version.

because I dont want to use some obscure browser. I have everything synced across all my devices on Chrome. Chrome is popular enough that they should fix these silly issues as its the daily browser for so many people. I guess that's wishful thinking though as they have never fixed anything that bothers me.

 

[AnandThenMan]

because I dont want to use some obscure browser.

Your loss. The browser may not be well known but it's a VS2013 compiled Mozilla source so it's hardly obscure. It also has all the "phone home" stuff stripped out.