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Trying to figure this out. I have a friend with an older rig, an Athlon II X4 CPU, 4x4GB DDR2 RAM, and as of last week or so, a new RX 570 4GB card.
I helped him load the newest 19.4.1 Adrenaline drivers in Win7 64-bit.
He also uses Firefox for browsing, and has the newest Flash Player installed.
Hardware acceleration in Firefox prefs is enabled, Content Process limit set to 4 (number of CPU cores).
Not sure why he's seeing such high CPU usage.
Even lowly Brazos could watch 1080P H.264 YouTube when it came out, in Win7 64-bit, with lower CPU usage. Maybe only 30P, not 60P.
So, is this indication that the OS and browser and video driver are not all communicating to hardware-accelerate playback of Twitch streams? What am I missing here?
I told him that I would hook him up with another, larger, SSD, and we could install Windows 10 on that, and see if things worked better. His Win7 64-bit OS installation is a few years old, and has probably had Codec packs, DivX Player/Codecs, as well as VLC, and various NVidia and AMD video drivers installed and un-installed over the years.
I helped him load the newest 19.4.1 Adrenaline drivers in Win7 64-bit.
He also uses Firefox for browsing, and has the newest Flash Player installed.
Hardware acceleration in Firefox prefs is enabled, Content Process limit set to 4 (number of CPU cores).
Not sure why he's seeing such high CPU usage.
Even lowly Brazos could watch 1080P H.264 YouTube when it came out, in Win7 64-bit, with lower CPU usage. Maybe only 30P, not 60P.
So, is this indication that the OS and browser and video driver are not all communicating to hardware-accelerate playback of Twitch streams? What am I missing here?
I told him that I would hook him up with another, larger, SSD, and we could install Windows 10 on that, and see if things worked better. His Win7 64-bit OS installation is a few years old, and has probably had Codec packs, DivX Player/Codecs, as well as VLC, and various NVidia and AMD video drivers installed and un-installed over the years.