Videos won't play/start...

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Specs:

• Spoiler

  New build (Only a couple weeks old).

  • CPU
    i5 9600K @ 3.7 - 4.6Ghz
  • Motherboard
    Asus Z390A-PRO
  • RAM
    32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX @2666Mhz CL15
  • GPU
    MSi RTX 2070 Armor OC
  • Case
    Fractal Design Define S (Windowless Sound Dampening)
  • Storage
    Samsung 970 EVO 500GB + Storage Drives
  • PSU
    Fractal Design Integra 650W (Semi-Modular)
  • Display(s)
    3x Dell U2415
  • Cooling
    NZXT Kraken X62
  • Keyboard
    Logitech Orion G610
  • Mouse
    Logitech Proteus G502
  • Sound
    Logitech Z623
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Home 64bit

   

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  Problem:

  Okay, so I tend to open a lot of tabs in a lot of windows, often with videos I plan to watch whether it be Youtube or Pornhub or series I have downloaded. What happens is, after opening ~50 videos during a consecutive login on the device, videos become unable to play. I'm not talking about having 50 tabs of videos open at once making them unable to play, I mean I can open one video at a time in one window over the course of a few hours, but as soon as I hit somewhere around the 50th video, videos just straight up don't play. Here's an example of what it looks like when I try to play a video https://imgur.com/ILQ59r7. It stops at 00:00 and gets a rolling bar, sound doesn't play either.

  Clearing cache doesn't work, using a different browser doesn't work, games play fine, in fact everything else works as it should. It's just videos that don't work/play, except my camera does work fine... There's a bit of a distinction between online streamed videos and downloaded videos, though. Online videos straight up don't play at all, where-as downloaded videos stutter at like 5 fps without any sound. The issue is solved by restarting the computer, doesn't even have to be a cold-start, but that still gets annoying. I'm used to restarting my computer once a month, really...

   

  PS. I have the latest drivers for everything, this PC is only like 2 weeks old.

[-rascal-]

 

Check the memory usage when this problem happens.

I am wondering if the OS / web browser is just not keeping the data in RAM since the tabs are idle.

What happens if you reload/refresh the affected tab? Does the video start working?

 

Also, I am assuming your OS is a new install (?)

Make sure you are on the latest version of Windows.

For an example, if you are on Windows 10 1703, and the current version is 1803 / 1809,  you may run into software/driver compatibility issues

45 minutes ago, リチャード said:

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Problem:

Okay, so I tend to open a lot of tabs in a lot of windows, often with videos I plan to watch whether it be Youtube or Pornhub or series I have downloaded...

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1 minute ago, -rascal- said:

 

Check the memory usage when this problem happens.

I am wondering if the OS / web browser is just not keeping the data in RAM since the tabs are idle.

What happens if you reload/refresh the affected tab? Does the video start working?

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This happens when Chrome is using anywhere from 2 GB to 10+ GB, I don't really have a RAM usage problem. I doubt it's an idle issue as the freezing/stuttering also extends to downloaded videos and it definitely persists through refreshing the page or using a whole different browser.

 

I'm suspecting the RTX cards still need some drivers to fix these kinds of issues. They're pretty new and all... Still, can't find anyone else having these problems on Google, new cards or no.