YouTube initial loading is slow and makes higher CPU usage in both Chrome and Fire Fox

[Bill1010]

I have a Gigabyte P25Xv2-CF1 Laptop with Windows 7.
I have been using it for over a year now and never had any problems with watching YouTube until just a month ago. I have tried watching videos in Fire Fox and Google Chrome, both do the same thing.

I have been having two problems that I never had before:

1. YouTube videos take a long time to start playing. It will show the loading symbol for a good 15 seconds before the video shows anything. Once it starts everything loads fine from there. (I have a stable internet connection and it still does it)

2.When I watch a video, my laptop's CPU usage goes to about 45%. I know that's not that high, but it's enough to make the fans come on, and they are very loud. And I could watch videos before with a CPU usage of barely anything.

I tried disabling hardware acceleration and that didn't do anything. I also enabled VP9 in Fire Fox and it still does it.

I've tried Google and have had no luck. If you have any idea what might be wrong I'd appreciate the help. Thanks. (Also, I wasn't sure what category this would be so I chose Windows 7)

 

[Rabmac]

Obviously I cannot say for certain but there are a few things I would check first if I were you.

1. First thing I would check for is malware. There is a good guide for finding and removing malware at this site: http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-clean-infected-computer.htm

2. Once you are happy that all malware (if any was found) is removed then I would repair all my system files and common network issues. There is a great free tool that does all this for you. You can download from here: http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html

Don't think that because you have malware protection software running and it has not flagged anything, that your PC is not infected. I fix PCs for a living and most slow running programs and PCs are caused by malware infections.