Bad youtube and other video streaming sites performance on a laptop
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So the laptop is pretty old and potato-ish (asus x80l), came pre-installed with windows vista, since that I removed that and installed a fresh windows 7 enterprise copy on it. Installed all updates via Microsoft Update, even downloaded the latest ("latest", I think it's from 2009) Intel GMA 950 drivers, no dice. Everything including and above 720p is really choppy, CPU usage jumps to 100%. Is there anything that can be done? I don't remember this happening on vista [B]at all[/B]
Try disabling Aero on Windows 7 and whatever else might be using your resources.
Make sure you have hardware acceleration enabled in your browser settings, although I am not sure that will have any effect with such ancient hardware.
Windows 7 is more demanding of your system than Vista, Enterprise version probably even more so.
Weird thing is, there's also an equally potato-ey laptop (acer aspire 4520-z03) with some weird fucked up custom windows 7 ultimate (with custom skins, you know the type) installed, and it plays streaming media fine. [sp]both laptops are at my gf's right now so i'm limited in terms of trying things[/sp]
Forgot to mention, a 3gb 720p downloaded movie works fine on both laptops, playing via MPC-HC
Will try disabling aero
It is possible that the browser simply only uses your weak single core CPU for video decoding, instead of using the GPU, make sure hardware acceleration is enabled.
Will try and report, thank you
Looks like disabling Aero did good for youtube but not so much for other streaming media sites. Huh..
Try updating the display drivers via the Device Manager.
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