This is going to highlight a few strange things I've noticed in the past month or so that may or may not be connected.
#1 Video lag. It's so subtle most people might not even notice it, but despite fraps showing most videos at the standard 24-ish rating, it feels like at times my videos will chug along and be choppy. This is ONLY with things I stream, not with downloaded video files. Also, silverlight (netflix to be specific) does not have this issue.
I use chrome and have disabled pepperflash with no success. I have then enabled it again and disabled the windows flash plugin through chrome with the same results. I've tried firefox and it's much the same. I've reinstalled Adobe flash, as well installed 2 flash updates since this has started, yet nothing changes.
#2 Video flickering. This is mostly just yesterday and today, and it could just be youtube, but every other video will have a very quick black flicker at the same time stamp, about 4 to 5 seconds in. Oddly enough, I can pause the video on that exact spot and it will preserve the black screen. Black screen remains regardless of which monitor it's displayed on or whether I'm fullscreen or not. Yet I can refresh the video and it will be gone, only to persist again in a different one.
#3 Screen tearing. Only when I don't have a video maximized, however, and again this is primarily a youtube issue. It's not a big deal because the solution is as simple as maximizing my video, but I thought I'd mention it as a potential link to the first problem.
I just really hope these are small, software related issues and it's not an issue with my graphics card or anything. For the record, I'm using a Radeon HD 7870, a corsair 600w power supply, Core i3 3220 CPU and 8 gigs of ram. Unfortunately I can't really download a new driver to see if that fixes anything because AMD seems to be releasing beta drivers provided 'as is' instead of an official release. Until then, I'm stuck with December's drivers.
#1 Video lag. It's so subtle most people might not even notice it, but despite fraps showing most videos at the standard 24-ish rating, it feels like at times my videos will chug along and be choppy. This is ONLY with things I stream, not with downloaded video files. Also, silverlight (netflix to be specific) does not have this issue.
I use chrome and have disabled pepperflash with no success. I have then enabled it again and disabled the windows flash plugin through chrome with the same results. I've tried firefox and it's much the same. I've reinstalled Adobe flash, as well installed 2 flash updates since this has started, yet nothing changes.
#2 Video flickering. This is mostly just yesterday and today, and it could just be youtube, but every other video will have a very quick black flicker at the same time stamp, about 4 to 5 seconds in. Oddly enough, I can pause the video on that exact spot and it will preserve the black screen. Black screen remains regardless of which monitor it's displayed on or whether I'm fullscreen or not. Yet I can refresh the video and it will be gone, only to persist again in a different one.
#3 Screen tearing. Only when I don't have a video maximized, however, and again this is primarily a youtube issue. It's not a big deal because the solution is as simple as maximizing my video, but I thought I'd mention it as a potential link to the first problem.
I just really hope these are small, software related issues and it's not an issue with my graphics card or anything. For the record, I'm using a Radeon HD 7870, a corsair 600w power supply, Core i3 3220 CPU and 8 gigs of ram. Unfortunately I can't really download a new driver to see if that fixes anything because AMD seems to be releasing beta drivers provided 'as is' instead of an official release. Until then, I'm stuck with December's drivers.
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