CPU making games stutter.

[DrowningMoose]

Alright, here's my problem.

When I play a game, say... a source game while having Google Chrome on my second monitor playing a video, My game begins to make very quick small stutters that happen every second continuously. When I pause the video or close the browser and tab back into my game the stutters disappear and my game runs smooth. I began to think the cause is coming from CPU and I still believe that's true, but I would like to make sure that's what it is. If you can confirm this or possibly give me another reason for my stutter as well as the solution that would be great. Thank you.

i5 2500k
EVGA GTX 780
MSI Z77A G45 Gaming
Corsair 750 watt
16 gigs G. Skill Ripjaws X

 

[Mciahel]

Yeah the only thing I could think it would be is your cpu...

 

[DrowningMoose]

Yeah the only thing I could think it would be is your cpu...

Do you suggest I change it to get a new one?

 

[Mciahel]

uhhhh go download http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/ and play a game with this running and see what the temps are.

 

[DrowningMoose]

uhhhh go download http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/ and play a game with this running and see what the temps are.

I already have this program and I also forgot to mention that I use a corsair H80i water cooler so my temps are around 40 and below when playing.

 

[mgolus]

I would be quicker to blame the problem on either Chrome, or Adobe Flash (if the website you are playing video on uses a flash based player.) Chrome and Flash both by default offload video decoding to your GPU and your CPU should be more than sufficient to handle the scenario that you are describing.

You can try disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome by going to the url "chrome://flags" in a new tab. Search for the setting called "Disable hardware-accelerated video decode" and click "Enable" (the setting name and the button name seem backwards...). Also if the website is using a flash video player, try right clicking on the video, go to Settings, and on the Display tab, uncheck the box that says "Enable hardware acceleration."

 

[DrowningMoose]

I would be quicker to blame the problem on either Chrome, or Adobe Flash (if the website you are playing video on uses a flash based player.) Chrome and Flash both by default offload video decoding to your GPU and your CPU should be more than sufficient to handle the scenario that you are describing.

You can try disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome by going to the url "chrome://flags" in a new tab. Search for the setting called "Disable hardware-accelerated video decode" and click "Enable" (the setting name and the button name seem backwards...). Also if the website is using a flash video player, try right clicking on the video, go to Settings, and on the Display tab, uncheck the box that says "Enable hardware acceleration."

I did everything you suggested but none of them worked I still stutter.

 

[Mciahel]

I would be quicker to blame the problem on either Chrome, or Adobe Flash (if the website you are playing video on uses a flash based player.) Chrome and Flash both by default offload video decoding to your GPU and your CPU should be more than sufficient to handle the scenario that you are describing.

You can try disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome by going to the url "chrome://flags" in a new tab. Search for the setting called "Disable hardware-accelerated video decode" and click "Enable" (the setting name and the button name seem backwards...). Also if the website is using a flash video player, try right clicking on the video, go to Settings, and on the Display tab, uncheck the box that says "Enable hardware acceleration."

I did everything you suggested but none of them worked I still stutter.

Yeah I do that and it doesn't happen to me lol.

 

[gamerk316]

Could be the GPU as well, given how most video is GPU accelerated these days. I'd actually think the GPU is more likely at fault then the CPU as a result, since the CPU is likely just feeding the data to the GPU decoders.

 

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[DrowningMoose]

I would be quicker to blame the problem on either Chrome, or Adobe Flash (if the website you are playing video on uses a flash based player.) Chrome and Flash both by default offload video decoding to your GPU and your CPU should be more than sufficient to handle the scenario that you are describing.

You can try disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome by going to the url "chrome://flags" in a new tab. Search for the setting called "Disable hardware-accelerated video decode" and click "Enable" (the setting name and the button name seem backwards...). Also if the website is using a flash video player, try right clicking on the video, go to Settings, and on the Display tab, uncheck the box that says "Enable hardware acceleration."

I did everything you suggested but none of them worked I still stutter.

Yeah I do that and it doesn't happen to me lol.

Damn this is really annoying.

 

[DrowningMoose]

Could be the GPU as well, given how most video is GPU accelerated these days. I'd actually think the GPU is more likely at fault then the CPU as a result, since the CPU is likely just feeding the data to the GPU decoders.

i just received a brand new 780 just about a week ago for the exact problem but it didn't seem to help. So I believe the GPU couldn't be the culprit.