Is playing a video in the background leading to performance issues while gaming?
Is playing a video in the background leading to performance issues while gaming?
If you are using a video player app to play a video stored on the HDD, the key difference lies in how the video is delivered and processed. A browser-based video stream differs from a local drive playback in several ways.
A simple illustration shows the contrast:
Playing a video locally only requires loading it into memory from the drive, then using CPU to decompress and GPU to play.
Playing a browser video involves additional steps: downloading in chunks, processing each part with CPU and storage tasks, then gradually decompressing and decoding by the GPU. The buffering time reflects how much of this complex process occurs before the video starts playing.
Thank you for all these ideas! I tried various fixes, like turning off extensions, disabling gsync, and disabling overlay, but nothing worked until I used a clean boot. That resolved everything—I no longer experience any stutter. I’ve re-enabled my processes, and it seems Norton is the issue. I didn’t expect it since I had Norton on my previous PC without problems. However, I have Norton 360 now and wasn’t sure what was different. It has 'game optimization' features that were automatically turned on. When I disabled them, the stutter disappeared. It looks like there’s something limiting resource usage for user processes and prioritizing game performance on systems with four or more CPU cores. I’m not entirely sure what it was doing, but turning it off solved my problems. Thanks to all the suggestions!
Thank you for the input. There are numerous factors involved, making it challenging to identify the exact reason for an issue.
I would avoid Norton. Based on what you're explaining, it's clear this software doesn't offer any extra benefits that Windows already provides.
I believe Microsoft has a valid purpose for their version of this feature to function correctly. For companies like Norton, they would only focus on the essentials to meet legal requirements, since their goal is primarily to collect your subscription fees.
I understand it wasn't Norton, but I recall long ago an anti-virus program crashed a game I was attempting to play because it reported a service trying to use the PC's hardware resources. Specifically, the graphics card was involved...
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How can I take anti-virus seriously? It's meant to stop malware from taking over resources and causing issues, not create them!
Of course, security is important, but there are too many "solutions" that are overly complicated.