Question I don't understand why my video performance is less than stellar sometimes

[JD401]

HI all, this is my very first real post here, so please bear with me... Looks like I can't upload screen shots so will type everything up...

I am befuddled as to why my PC's video performance is hit-or-miss sometimes. I thought I had a decent graphics card and enough memory to handle my needs, but lately I am having playback issues, etc. I only recently went from Windows 7 Pro to 10, not sure if this matters. I wonder if I changed a setting somewhere and now performance is suffering. The videos in question are usually off-line ones, clips etc I use for editing together projects, etc.

ALSO, I keep disabling my motherboard's graphics so my add-on card takes over, but it keeps reactivating itself!

1. What happens when a PC has two active GPU's running?
2. Isn't my graphics card higher performing than the motherboard graphics?
3. Doesn't my amount of memory effect video playback? Don't I have more than enough?

I'm hoping maybe folks here who understand things like "clocks", etc may see something in my build/settings that could be causing my troubles. I never really had any issues until recently, so I hope I didn't goof up a setting, or it is Windows 10 related... Let me know if you need to see any other info:

Windows10
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690 CPU @ 3.50GHz 801 MHz
16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable) / HyperX Blu HS KHX1600C9D3B1/4G - (4GBx4), PC3-12800, DDR3-1600MHz, 240-pin DIMM
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

(Motherboard) Gigabyte - GA-Z97X-SLI LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX
(CPU) Intel Core i5-4690 Haswell 3.5GHz LGA 1150 84W HD Graphics 4600
(GPU) AMD Radeon HD 5450
Graphics Card Manufacturer - Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon HD 5450
Device ID - 68F9
Vendor ID - 1002
SubSystem ID - 3030
SubSystem Vendor ID - 1682
Revision ID - 00
Bus Type - PCI Express 2.0
Current Bus Settings - PCI Express 2.0 x16
BIOS Version - 012.020.000.062
BIOS Part Number - 113-CEDAR_PRO_120621RGA_D3_2G_128MX16_1
BIOS Date - 2014/11/02 21:13
Memory Size - 2048 MB
Memory Type - HyperMemory
Memory Clock - 533 MHz
Core Clock - 650 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth - Not Available
Radeon Settings Version - 2016.0226.1531.27895
Driver Packaging Version - 15.301.1901-160226a-318062E
Provider - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2D Driver Version - 8.1.1.1533
Direct3D® Version - 9.14.10.1171
OpenGL® Version - 6.14.10.13417
OpenCL™ Version - 2.0.4.0
AMD Mantle Version - 9.1.10.99
AMD Mantle API Version - Not Available
AMD Audio Driver Version - 10.0.0.2

 

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