Laptop not playing YT 8K after update

[AvMaverick]

I have an IdeaPad gaming 3i which ran 8k smoothly until I updated Windows recently after which I'm not able to do the same? I don't know why, but it's going 100% CPU, which did not happen before...

 

Earlier CPU usage used to be around 30% with it...

[PeachGr]

Wow IdeaPad has 8k screen, good to know

[RAS_3885]

1 hour ago, AvMaverick said:

I have an IdeaPad gaming 3i which ran 8k smoothly until I updated Windows recently after which I'm not able to do the same? I don't know why, but it's going 100% CPU, which did not happen before...

 

Earlier CPU usage used to be around 30% with it...

Did the browser settings for hardware acceleration get changed after the update? Sounds like perhaps GPU video decoding got disabled and now the CPU is doing all of it, which is a lot for 8k video.

 

Also, why 8k Youtube playback on a 1080p display?

[Lord Bloobus]

Not sure why you have that issue, just commenting that 8k streaming on a laptop screen seems incredibly pointless.

[Tedstonegenious]

Theres no point in trying to stream at a higher resolution than your display. All that does is hog system resources and waste bandwidth. Make sure that hardware acceleration didn't get turned off, update your GPU drivers, and go to a reasonable resoluton (the one your display is), and juding by the fact that your computer sports a 120hz display driven by a 1650ti, I'm gonna say its a 1080p panel. 1440p and 4k will eat that GPU for breakfest, let alone 8k.

[WkdPaul]

* Thread moved to the Troubleshooting section *

[AvMaverick]

13 hours ago, RAS_3885 said:

Did the browser settings for hardware acceleration get changed after the update? Sounds like perhaps GPU video decoding got disabled and now the CPU is doing all of it, which is a lot for 8k video.

I think so... So how do I fix it? 

 

13 hours ago, RAS_3885 said:

Also, why 8k Youtube playback on a 1080p display?

Just for the feeling, ig, for the new LTT video.

13 hours ago, Tedstonegenious said:

Theres no point in trying to stream at a higher resolution than your display. All that does is hog system resources and waste bandwidth. Make sure that hardware acceleration didn't get turned off, update your GPU drivers, and go to a reasonable resoluton (the one your display is), and juding by the fact that your computer sports a 120hz display driven by a 1650ti, I'm gonna say its a 1080p panel. 1440p and 4k will eat that GPU for breakfest, let alone 8k.

I know that it's pointless, but I still don't know why this is happening, because earlier, I could watch the same video at just 22 frames dropped during the entire video...

 

I mean if it could before, why not now?

[Mark Kaine]

20 hours ago, PeachGr said:

Wow IdeaPad has 8k screen, good to know

 

19 hours ago, RAS_3885 said:

Did the browser settings for hardware acceleration get changed after the update? Sounds like perhaps GPU video decoding got disabled and now the CPU is doing all of it, which is a lot for 8k video.

 

Also, why 8k Youtube playback on a 1080p display?

 

19 hours ago, Lord Bloobus said:

Not sure why you have that issue, just commenting that 8k streaming on a laptop screen seems incredibly pointless.

 

18 hours ago, Tedstonegenious said:

Theres no point in trying to stream at a higher resolution than your display. All that does is hog system resources and waste bandwidth. Make sure that hardware acceleration didn't get turned off, update your GPU drivers, and go to a reasonable resoluton (the one your display is), and juding by the fact that your computer sports a 120hz display driven by a 1650ti, I'm gonna say its a 1080p panel. 1440p and 4k will eat that GPU for breakfest, let alone 8k.

Umm, guys, the quality is way better with 4k/8k streams on yt, and it's known since years... reason is higher bitrates.

 

Also FYI, it downscales nicely on 1080p monitor, it's basically super sampling.

 

I'm baffled you don't know this, and even more you don't see it cause the difference is *huge*.

 

 

[Mark Kaine]

20 hours ago, AvMaverick said:

Earlier CPU usage used to be around 30% with it

Check if GPU acceleration is turned on in the browser, is all I can think of...

outside of removing the update I guess.

[AvMaverick]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

Check if GPU acceleration is turned on in the browser, is all I can think of...

outside of removing the update I guess.

And how do I do it?

[Mark Kaine]

in your browser > settings > GPU acceleration > ON