Gemini000 wrote:
Those HDD stats don't really mean anything about performance, contrary to anything you may've heard. I believe WD Green drives have similar physical specs to WD Black drives yet the Greens are painfully slow for access speeds and have terrible longevity, whereas Black drives have really good access speeds and are the only drives in the industry (which I know of anyways) backed by five-year warranties, since they last so much better.
I'm not sure Green drives have terrible performance per se, I've just been staying away from them because of the head parking "feature" which cuts their lifetime drastically. My HDD is by no means the leader of the pack, but it's no slouch either. I doubt it's the weak link in the chain.
That said, I had zero frames dropped in IE with that video, though I'm not on an internet connection strong enough to downstream 1080p content so I had to let it buffer for a little before I could test. For some reason, those frame stats don't show up in IE but I could just eyeball it and know it was playing smooth and that the odd moments where it did stutter seemed linked to the captured gameplay itself.
IE doesn't count. It doesn't support VP9, so the video falls back to IE's H.264, which is only 720p and not 60fps.
My version of Firefox really needs to be updated at some point though as it doesn't trigger the HTML5 player on YouTube, but it gave me a chance to notice that the YouTube Flash player DOES NOT SUPPORT 60 FPS! If you select what you know is a 60 FPS stream using the Flash player, every other frame is dropped, which ended up giving me 30 FPS.
If you're going to update Firefox, I highly reccomend you become acquainted with the Classic Theme Restorer beforehand, because the new Firefox interface is drastically different from the old one.
Chrome and I don't get along. At all. I've tried it three times in the past on three different versions of Windows and crashed it within a minute all three times before even loading a single web page. It's strange that for every bunch of people who have zero issues with Chrome and praise the heck out of it, there's one person (like myself) who can't even get the thing working properly, even though it should be a no-brainer. 😜
Chrome isn't a no brainer considering all the options available in chrome://flags. Chrome is probably the most advanced and up-to-date browser of all. The progress of the development is easily always eons ahead of the competition. Having said that, I don't like it either. I'd rather use Firefox and suffer the performance penalty, because I'm comfortable wth the interface. On my laptop I use IE11 for whatever reason.
133MHz wrote:I can't seem to get more than ~40fps (with lots of dropped frames) on both Firefox and IE, but downloading the videos and playing them locally works fine. I find it a bit hard to believe that my computer (AMD FX-8120, 8GB DDR3-1600, GTX550Ti, SATA3 SSD) isn't fast enough for 60fps YouTube playback, but given how bloated it has become I don't really expect much.
Playing them locally with VLC and such isn't the same as playing them in your browser. The browser has to contend with a ton more overhead. I'm surprised your system couldn't handle it. What surprises me is that I played the video on an older Phenom machine with a Radeon 5450, and it ran smooth as butter. Can you try in Chrome or Chromium and see if you get an improvement?