When I started shooting 4K video, it appeared that my old Dell i7 with 12GB ram & 1GB video card was just not up to the task, even started a thread about it about a year and half ago. I considered upgrading the card, but with the hardware getting long in the tooth anyway I decided to do a whole upgrade.
I ended up getting an i7 6800 six core chip, 16GB ram, RX480 8GB gpu (this machine), I added a 500GB SSD for OS drive and a 2TB WD Black 7200 drive to complement the 1TB toshiba 7200rpm drive it came with.
Right from the start I noticed it was better, but I still get bad stuttering on some footage, even the erstwhile trustworthy VLC still won't play 4K, I have better luck with the native windows 10 media players. It seems ok sometimes when I play video after first starting up, but once I open a browser window (chrome) and a couple of things, it gets real bad. I even installed the old WMP as it's supposed to be better for this, but still get stuttering with it.
This is just Phantom 4 video too, not even real high bitrate footage.
I thought I'd have power to spare with this hardware setup, but I'm running into the same issues, only less so. I was thinking about pushing ram up to 24 or 32GB, but I'm wondering if I'm just missing something in my setup. I put on AMD's system monitor and I do notice when I play the 4k videos on native player the cpu and gpu are working (but not really hard), but I'm still getting the stuttering. With VLC they're not working at all so I think that's an application setting.
I also got a 4K samsung 28" monitor, that is supposed to eliminate gaming lag when used with a display port cable to connect to the graphics card, but right now I'm just using HDMI and I thought that should be plenty good for video.
Looking for suggestions about where I can look to tweak the system, and where / how can I find out where the bottleneck is? Would bumping RAM up, or adding another GPU?
I ended up getting an i7 6800 six core chip, 16GB ram, RX480 8GB gpu (this machine), I added a 500GB SSD for OS drive and a 2TB WD Black 7200 drive to complement the 1TB toshiba 7200rpm drive it came with.
Right from the start I noticed it was better, but I still get bad stuttering on some footage, even the erstwhile trustworthy VLC still won't play 4K, I have better luck with the native windows 10 media players. It seems ok sometimes when I play video after first starting up, but once I open a browser window (chrome) and a couple of things, it gets real bad. I even installed the old WMP as it's supposed to be better for this, but still get stuttering with it.
This is just Phantom 4 video too, not even real high bitrate footage.
I thought I'd have power to spare with this hardware setup, but I'm running into the same issues, only less so. I was thinking about pushing ram up to 24 or 32GB, but I'm wondering if I'm just missing something in my setup. I put on AMD's system monitor and I do notice when I play the 4k videos on native player the cpu and gpu are working (but not really hard), but I'm still getting the stuttering. With VLC they're not working at all so I think that's an application setting.
I also got a 4K samsung 28" monitor, that is supposed to eliminate gaming lag when used with a display port cable to connect to the graphics card, but right now I'm just using HDMI and I thought that should be plenty good for video.
Looking for suggestions about where I can look to tweak the system, and where / how can I find out where the bottleneck is? Would bumping RAM up, or adding another GPU?
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