Not sure where to put this but... My monitors are blinking every few seconds when I attempt to watch netflix?

[Citrusflavour01]

Not sure if it's GPU related or something else? Only starts blinking to black when I attempt to play a video and the frame rate sometimes drops too (for the video).This has been going on for 2 weeks or so now and never had problems with it before  I really didn't know where to post this topic, sorry! FYI I'm indeed using Microsoft Edge. I'm using Edge for 4k playback. Temps not an issue.

 

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[Bombastinator]

46 minutes ago, Citrusflavour01 said:

Not sure if it's GPU related or something else? Only starts blinking to black when I attempt to play a video and the frame rate sometimes drops too (for the video).This has been going on for 2 weeks or so now and never had problems with it before  I really didn't know where to post this topic, sorry! FYI I'm indeed using Microsoft Edge. I'm using Edge for 4k playback.

Troubleshooting is I would personally say a gud’nuf  place.  It is troubling after all. Downside is troubleshooting starts at the bottom because various things might cause such a thing need to be ruled out.  Step 1 is to include system specs.  Makes things go a lot faster because often whole swaths of stuff can be ruled out just by looking at the list.  Next would be to rule out a heat issue:  Have you been monitoring temps? 

[Citrusflavour01]

On 10/19/2021 at 11:49 AM, Bombastinator said:

Troubleshooting is I would personally say a gud’nuf  place.  It is troubling after all. Downside is troubleshooting starts at the bottom because various things might cause such a thing need to be ruled out.  Step 1 is to include system specs.  Makes things go a lot faster because often whole swaths of stuff can be ruled out just by looking at the list.  Next would be to rule out a heat issue:  Have you been monitoring temps? 

I can confirm that the temps are not a problem at all! The specs are in my signature.

[Bombastinator]

6 hours ago, Citrusflavour01 said:

I can confirm that the temps are not a problem at all! The specs are in my signature.

Next would be a hardware or software thing.  I’m leaning towards software myself.  The equipment is working and is new enough to be in its service envelope.  Generally if there is hardware stuff the machine is either brand new or very old. This appears to be neither. I I do wonder if your memory is actually running at it’s rated speed, but that is probably not terribly important. If it’s blinking out and coming back with occasional slowdowns it vaguely implies some sort of software memory buffer thing, but really really vaguely. If it’s even there it could be in lots of places.  Have you tried switching browsers or using a dedicated application to play the video?  Might help, might not.

[Chinny136]

Have you tried using a diffrent cable?

[Senzelian]

Disable hardware acceleration in your browser and see if that changes the behavior.
I had a similar issue with Netflix in fullscreen. Turning off aforementioned option fixed it, but also introduced overall laggyness.

 

Now that I think about it, I think it went away when I either replaced my GPU or when I switched to Windows 11.