[SOLVED] Video lags when gaming & playing YT videos at same time ?

[sharpieface]

Hello.
Whenever i'm playing a heavy load game for instance Call of Duty or any other and have a youtube video running on the second or third monitor, the video starts to lag and freezes.
Is that because of CPU or GPU high usage or what causes the video to start lagging?
Since i have a decent PC i though i wouldn't enounter lag like this while gaming. If so, what would be the 1st thing to upgrade?

i9-10900k 3.7ghz
3070ti 8GB evga
32GB RAM, 3200mhz
ROG STRIX z490-e
Samsung 980 PRO, 1TB

Ask any questions, advice appreciated, thanks.

 

[InvalidError]

Sounds like the issue I had with my HD5770 where playing videos caused 3D clocks to go down to idle, making it effectively impossible to play a video with hardware acceleration enabled at the same time as a game.

Playing most types of videos is not a remotely meaningful load for modern PCs and shouldn't have any noticeable effect when things are running normally. My GTX1050 can run triple displays with 4k video on my TV and a game perfectly fine even before I upgraded from my i5-3470, your PC should have absolutely no problem doing the same as far as raw specs are concerned.

Use hardware-monitoring software to keep an eye on GPU clocks, see if there is funky business going on there.

 

[sharpieface]

Sounds like the issue I had with my HD5770 where playing videos caused 3D clocks to go down to idle, making it effectively impossible to play a video with hardware acceleration enabled at the same time as a game.

Playing most types of videos is not a remotely meaningful load for modern PCs and shouldn't have any noticeable effect when things are running normally. My GTX1050 can run triple displays with 4k video on my TV and a game perfectly fine even before I upgraded from my i5-3470, your PC should have absolutely no problem doing the same as far as raw specs are concerned.

Use hardware-monitoring software to keep an eye on GPU clocks, see if there is funky business going on there.

Thanks for the reply.

I just tried playing with HWA off for Chrome, and another game with HWA back on.
Didn't have a problem when it was off, but when turned on the video stopped playing mid session.

Could that just be the reason or there could be something else? I monitored GPU clocks and they were the same. But I don't have 3D clocks, should I check that?

 

[InvalidError]

If all of the GPU clocks look the same, then it could be VRAM. Chrome and Firefox can gobble up over 1GB of VRAM when they use GPU acceleration and I've graphics glitching issues from them filling up my GTX1050's 2GB. That can be a problem if your games gobble up all of the VRAM they can get their hands on. I worked around this issue by forcing Chrome and FF to use the IGP instead.