I'm mediocre at PC stuff, but better than my mate with this issue.
3Ghz p4, 3.5gb 667Mhz DDR2 RAM, 750Gb HDD
Recent install of Asus GT610 GPU.
Samsung 32" at 1024 x 768 res (per manual)
Streaming youtube (html5) and skygo (flash), the cpu is up to 70-100% in smallest size (can just run 1080p, with dropped frames), then jumps to 100% and jerky at full screen.
This happens on chrome and firefox. Don't try IE as the pc is XP Pro, so only up to IE8 or whatever he said.
But the GPU is only at 10% or so?
QUESTION - I can't figure out why the pc seems to still want to run video through the onboard graphics (128mb shared RAM, and CPU processing only)? How can we get the GPU more involved?
I have tried:
Switching on and off hardware acceleration in the browsers, and in the flash right click menu. Also in the Windows Display options/troubleshooter
Installing latest GPU drivers (XP specific!) from NVidia website
Adobe says latest version installed, but have tried switching on and off the plugins in each browser - should try uninstall and reinstall?
I don't even know where to look for HTML5 acceleration?
Clearly the GPU is found by the system, as it is being used, but only a little, but is there anything I can do to check it is working correctly software wise?
The CPUZ report is showing that despite the mobo being 667mhz, some of the RAM (3 x 512mb 667mhz and 1 x 1gb 800mhz)
is running down to 333mhz or so? I'm not sure that is the problem with the streaming, but what can I do to fix that?
I can post a report for that if it would help?
Thank you all again for any help you can give me. I know the answer is buy a new PC, but I wouldn't be asking the questions if that was an option for him :)