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...and apparently it's into it, because it seems to think nothing's wrong. For the last week or so, opening any streaming video service (youtube, twitch, etc) results in a video that has about a 70% chance to be a choppy unwatchable mess and a 100% chance to slow the rest of my browser and every other program on my computer - internet connected or no - to a crawl. Task manager and resource monitor indicate nothing unusual going on with my system while this is happening (cpu/memory/hd usage/etc not exceeding ~30%) and a speedtest reports nothing particularly weird going on with my internet connection. I've rebooted my computer and router, no dice. This happens in multiple browsers. Weirdly, having the stream open in a different browser by itself usually allows the stream itself to be relatively watchable, but it still strangles every other program on my computer. I also tried disabling windows defender in case this was some weird firewall issue - also nothing. Any ideas on what to check next would be greatly appreciated. GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB RAM: 16GB CPU: Intel core i5-2320 @ 3.00GHz (this is the oldest part of my setup and was my first suspect) OS: Windows 10, most recent update (updating was one of the first things i tried) President Ark fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jun 11, 2021 |
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Jun 11, 2021 21:04
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I think I've gotten on to something, but I need an HDMI cable to check. I'll report back in an hour or two if it fixes it.
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Jun 11, 2021 21:28
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I'm a blithering idiot. Like most neckbeards I have a dual monitor setup. For some reason instead of having two HDMI cables so both could be connected to my graphics card, I had one VGA connected to my motherboard and one HDMI to my graphics card. I can't remember which was connected to which monitor, but about a week ago (right before the problem started!), one of my monitors developed a very minor cosmetic issue so I switched their positions on my desk. I usually play videos on my second monitor. I kept them on the same cables, which meant my second monitor now had the VGA out. I noticed what was going on because while I was wiggling a chrome tab in frustration I noticed that whenever the video was on my main monitor (connected to the graphics card via HDMI) the problem stopped. I got a second HDMI cable. Problem's gone. I hate my life. TL;DR: Hey dumbass make sure your setup is actually using that expensive graphics card
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Jun 11, 2021 22:46
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