Youtube videos are choppy in full screen, please help!

Justin Chia

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I'm using a brand new Acer Aspire E15, 8gb ddr3 L memory, and my videos always lag whenever i put them on full screen.

I've tried turning on hardware acceleration, and it works, but the laptop crashes with the "system_thread_exception_not_handled" BSOD error.

I'm using firefox as a default browser.

Please help.
 
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If the above recommendation does not work, then you should try a different browser because some people like myself are experiencing problems with FireFox and Windows 8.1.

The issue is different from yours though. I get a lot of instances where Firefox simply does not respond at all for a few minutes. It would say "(Firefox Not Responding)" at the top of the Firefox bar. I had no such issues when I was using Windows 8 and I have not found a solution that fixes the problem other than using a different browser.
If the above recommendation does not work, then you should try a different browser because some people like myself are experiencing problems with FireFox and Windows 8.1.

The issue is different from yours though. I get a lot of instances where Firefox simply does not respond at all for a few minutes. It would say "(Firefox Not Responding)" at the top of the Firefox bar. I had no such issues when I was using Windows 8 and I have not found a solution that fixes the problem other than using a different browser.
 
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Justin Chia

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I am unable to update my graphics card drivers, i get a pop up that says my device doesnt meet the minimum requirements.

if it helps, im running on AMD quad-core a10-7300 with turbo core technology up to 3.20 GHz
 
Then you need to download the AMD drivers. Below is a link for the Windows 8.1 64-bit versions.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+8.1+-+64


The drivers are a bit dated though. The last official version was released back in Dec 2014. The most current from Apr 2015 is a beta version that includes a performance fix for GTA 5. Perhaps installing either version will help. You should also try a different browser to determine if the issue is only with Firefox.
 

Justin Chia

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Thanks for the suggestion, I've switched over to chrome and things are a lot better! I hope it stays this way.

 

Emerion57

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I've had the same problem with stuttering in Chrome and narrowed it down to Nvidia Experience software. I tried uninstalling a bunch of stuff and restarted my pc. Then everything worked fine. I thought it was the adblocker in chrome who was to blame, but when I reinstalled nvidia experience to check for driver updates, the next time i opened youtube the problem was back. Don't know if it is Nvidia or Google i should blame.