Poor internet speed while playing games.
Poor internet speed while playing games.
Hey there. I recently switched to Windows 11 and have been experiencing significant drops in browser performance while gaming. There are noticeable slowdowns, even complete freezes during Twitch or YouTube streams. It seems to coincide with the upgrade from Windows 10. It might be a coincidence, but I haven’t had any issues with gaming or video playback except when running more demanding hardware games. The graphics-intensive games I used to enjoy now feel much less smooth. I’ve tried enabling Windows features like Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and GPU acceleration in my browsers, but it hasn’t restored my previous experience. Just let me know if this is normal.
It might be related to VRAM usage—games and browsers both demand it for smooth performance. The GPU might also be contributing to the problem. Videos tend to use more VRAM and processing power than typical browser tasks. Reducing texture details and limiting the frame rate could help improve stability.
I've handled most games this way, but I'm still experiencing a decline in video performance.
I have never run into this problem. I have a 3090 (24GB) on a i7-14700K with 128GB of RAM I'll tell you what I have noticed however, power management settings are not working correctly with any nvidia GPU on any Intel platform. (I have a 3070Ti on a 11700K as well.) If you have any power management turned on in the BIOS (which you should so the OS can manage it) somehow this starts a cascade of PCIe throttling across all PCIe devices. I found that if the power management is "only turned on" it may work correctly until you turn on the PCIe ASPM and then all hell breaks loose. For some reason ASPM will aggressively try to save power, even when the GPU is actually busy. So you may want to investigate that. Second, check what the power management IS actually set to. If that first option (power mode) is not set to Balanced or Performance, you are going to get those chugging youtube videos because it's actively trying dial down power usage on "stuff you're not looking at" Another reason may simply be because you have HDR on or your refresh rate set above 60 while watching video that is not HDR/60, and it's putting an extra trip through the GPU to compensate for it. This is a non-scientificly-proven tip, but unless you are watching UHD Blueray, leave HDR off. Unless the game actually advertises rec.2020 UHD HDR, there's no point.