Brand new GPU, Youtube Pixelation...

[459pm]

I bought a new GPU ( HIS R9 290 ) and it's running at a idle temp of 45c.

My chrome browser now hitches a bunch and has mini freezes every time I switch tabs.

Also, youtube now looks pixelated at resolutions of 720p or 1080p.

The image actually looks more clear at the soft resolution of 480p

I have the latest AMD drivers for this GPU ( Not Beta, beta gave me display driver crashes while gaming... -_- )

Are there settings in the AMD CCC I should mess with? Is my card bad?

Here is an example of a 1080p youtube video on my 900p monitor:

Do you see how the edges are very pixelated and rough and it looks like there is a grid bleeding through?

I've tried Firefox and it has studdering video playback, but no tab switch hitching ( That's apparently because firefox has crappy flash support right now for some reason...)


Please help! =O

 

[IInuyasha74]

1080p videos won't look right on your monitor to start cause your monitor isn't 1080p.

As for the issue with the image quality, I'd say it probably the video you are watching was originally recorded/encoded in 480p then stretched up to 1080p by either a video converter or youtube is just scaling it. Causing the pixelation on that video without really being caused by your system.

 

[459pm]

I know for a fact that Linus tech tips films with a RED 4k camera, and uploads in 4k. Running at 1080p with that uploaded video quality shouldn't be an issue with his end...

 

[IInuyasha74]

Well then the upload is good. Have you tried a different browser? Or uninstalling and reinstalling the bowser?

Its just you mentioned having other problems with the browser, the GPU doesn't really do anything with that. If you had system wide instability, maybe, but just the web browser wouldn't be the GPU. I think its better to focus on the browser issues and once those are gone redirect down onto the video play back.

Also if you have a video on your PC test with watching something straight off your PC that is in HD quality.

 

[459pm]

Well then the upload is good. Have you tried a different browser? Or uninstalling and reinstalling the bowser?

Its just you mentioned having other problems with the browser, the GPU doesn't really do anything with that. If you had system wide instability, maybe, but just the web browser wouldn't be the GPU. I think its better to focus on the browser issues and once those are gone redirect down onto the video play back.

Also if you have a video on your PC test with watching something straight off your PC that is in HD quality.

It doesn't do it to VLC player, firefox has video studding but I heard that is just because firefox has flash issues.
Perhaps it's just an issue with chrome, I hope they update to fix it.

I've tried reinstalling chrome and that didn't help. I also reinstalled flash player and it didn't help. =/

 

[IInuyasha74]

Try Opera Browser and Internet Explorer. Opera is pretty good but you may not want to keep it as your main web browser.

Internet Explorer is, well, it can go to youtube and play videos so its worth trying.