Performance during watching videos in a browser

[gravitonian]

I noticed that the performance of GPU drops when watching video in a browser (flash player). Performance decrease is stronger than if i play in undemanding game (such as the MTG arena) during gpu-work. GPU-Z shows drops in GPU load, temperature and tdp (a flat line turns into a comb). Flash player hardware acceleration is disabled. What is the reason for this and is there an opportunity to reduce the effect of video on GPU work?

[JimboPalmer]

Turning off GPU acceleration in a browser is going to be browser specific.

Here is a page on Chrome and Firefox, but we have no idea what you use.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable- ... fox-chrome

[gravitonian]

I use pale moon and firefox, but GPU acceleration is already disabled (and in firefox too).

[bruce]

Turning off hardware acceleration in your browser causes the rasterization of web pages to be moved to your CPU. Video player software and/or games generally put more load on the GPU than the browser and you probably can't turn that off.

Your game or video player MIGHT give you a choice of GPUs if you happen to have more than one. On some systems it's possible to enable both the iGPU on your CPU and the dGPU on you GPU board, but it's generally a tricky setting to find. Also, the iGPU may or may not provide the necessary performance to satisfy your non-FAH needs, even if you figure out how to enable it.