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Skurge

Skurge

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So yeah. Whenever I have a youtube video paused or paying in my browser and launch a game, any game, my framerates are literally cut in half. Doesn't matter which browser I used or if the videos were 360p or 1080p. This didn't happen before with my old 4870, but it didn't happen for a while with the 5770.

Its not the overclock either as this started long before that. Its annoying having to close my browser before I run a game.

So I don't know if this has anything to do with adobe flash 10.1 and its just normal now that the videos are GPU accelerated or I have another problem.

Tried different drivers- nd reinstalled adobe flash player. Hasn't fixed anything.
 
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What kind of games were you playing before the problem started and what games are you playing now?
 
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DaveSimmons said:
Do you have GPU acceleration of Flash turned on? That steals GPU power from your games.
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Wouldn't that be more of a driver-agnostic GPU-agnostic problem?

Sounds like the OP is saying it doesn't do it with other GPU's but only the current one.

And not to turn this into a NV vs. AMD battle royale but I am genuinely curious if this happens with NV cards as well, or if it is some weird driver/architecture situation with Cypress.

Knowing whether or not it happens with NV cards, and whether or not it happens with non-Cypress based AMD cards could go some distance towards isolating the root-cause and thus expedite the time-to-solution for the OP.
 
Qbah

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It's not stealing anything. When you launch a GPU-accelerated flash clip, the card goes into UVD mode - for me it's 400/900. Obviously that's a lot lower than its 3D mode (860/1125 for me). I don't know what has higher priority - 3D or UVD. I would think it should use the clocks based on which window is active. But then again, even if you play a YT clip in the background, the card is still in UVD mode (and not desktop idle mode - it's actually higher for me - 400/1125!).

No idea if you can disable GPU acceleration for flash, would be a pain though to do it every time.
 
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AMD's Flash acceleration was flaky when it first released, no idea how it is now because I disabled Flash hardware acceleration to get around the bugs and never re-enabled it. It's worthless on a high end machine anyway where you have excessive CPU power to spare and usually GPU limited during gaming.

Anyway disabling the acceleration should 'fix' it, if you can live without GPU accelerated Flash. Disable by just right clicking any Flash movie and going into Settings, and unchecking Hardware Acceleration, then it will remain off.
 
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Skurge

Skurge

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NoQuarter said:
AMD's Flash acceleration was flaky when it first released, no idea how it is now because I disabled Flash hardware acceleration to get around the bugs and never re-enabled it. It's worthless on a high end machine anyway where you have excessive CPU power to spare and usually GPU limited during gaming.

Anyway disabling the acceleration should 'fix' it, if you can live without GPU accelerated Flash. Disable by just right clicking any Flash movie and going into Settings, and unchecking Hardware Acceleration, then it will remain off.
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Thanks for this, seems to have fixed it. Im sure I have more than enough CPU power to run flash video on the CPU.
 
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Another AMD problem ATI driver problem, what a shock


This is counter-productive and not helpful.

Thread-crapping is not acceptable.

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tweakboy said:
Another AMD problem ATI driver problem, what a shock
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Another useless post by tweakboy. What a shock.


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taltamir

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Skurge said:
So I don't know if this has anything to do with adobe flash 10.1 and its just normal now that the videos are GPU accelerated or I have another problem.
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adobe flash 10.1 will, by default, use your GPU to render the movies in youtube...

you can disable that and leave it all up to the CPU (which I recommend, its still very buggy)... You can find instructions here: http://windows7themes.net/flash-high-cpu-load-gpuhardware-acceleration.html

PS. Its not an AMD thing, I have been having problems with it on an nvidia card... flash is just junk overall :)
 
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