GPU Problem or Chrome problem?

[Theguywhobea]

I've been having an issue lately after switching my main display from a 4K 60Hz display to a 1080p 144Hz display. If I have a twitch stream playing on my main display (144hz monitor) and I scroll through some other page on my secondary monitor (1080p 60hz monitor) I drop all kinds of frames on Twitch and occasionally the video lags out entirely and has to restart.

 

The weird thing is that this didn't happen at all, not even a little, when I was using my 4K display as my primary. I've even tried going into WattMan and setting chrome to use Vsync, disabling enhanced sync, and setting my GPU minimum clocks to full speed, so I'm always running at 1600Mhz on the core, this has not solved it either.

 

Now is this issue a problem with my GPU? I know this didn't happen when I had an Nvidia GPU. Or is this an issue with Chrome that just happened to come back around the same time I switched monitors? Has anyone else had this issue and knows how to solve it?

[rcmaehl]

Turn off hardware acceleration within Chrome Settings. If the issue still persists afterwards, then it's a chrome problem.

[rcmaehl]

Additionally, you can check recent rendering error messages using

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chrome://gpu

 

[Slottr]

^ Hardware acceleration does all kinds of fucked up to video playback

[Theguywhobea]

5 minutes ago, rcmaehl said:

Turn off hardware acceleration within Chrome Settings. If the issue still persists afterwards, then it's a chrome problem.

Alright, so I've tried disabling hardware acceleration and that does fix my issue, I just wonder why hardware acceleration would be broken now? Don't I ideally want hardware acceleration to be on?

[rcmaehl]

Just now, Theguywhobea said:

Alright, so I've tried disabling hardware acceleration and that does fix my issue, I just wonder why hardware acceleration would be broken now? Don't I ideally want hardware acceleration to be on?

Might be the refresh rate difference between the displays. I BELIEVE chrome uses the same process for rendering windows between displays. Re-enable acceleration; Set your 144hz monitor to 60hz under advanced adapter properties; and test again. A work around may be using a different browser for video playback to prevent issues with a single rendering process from having to handle two different framerates at once.

[Theguywhobea]

Just now, rcmaehl said:

Might be the refresh rate difference between the displays. I BELIEVE chrome uses the same process for rendering windows between displays. Re-enable acceleration; Set your 144hz monitor to 60hz under advanced adapter properties; and test again. A work around may be using a different browser for video playback to prevent issues with a single rendering process from having to handle two different framerates at once.

I get that it could be an issue, I'm just wondering if this is a blanket AMD GPU issue? I know for 100% sure it used to be an issue on Nvidia as well but it ended up being fixed, on any of my other Nvidia machines I don't have this issue with the same 144Hz main display and 60Hz secondary display.