3D clocks issue with videos playing?

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extide

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So I have noticed this issue, it happened on my 6950 CfX setup, and my 7970.

Say if I have a browser open to youtube, (I listen to a lot of music this way) it will force my video card clocks to "501" EVEN after I open up a game EVEN if I minimize the browser window thats playing the flash. This obviously makes games run like crap. It's really annoying. Am I the only one seeing this? Anyone got a workaround? I think I might just slap another video card in here and use that for my other monitors so I can have the videos playing on the secondary card.

Thoughts?
 
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Turn off hardware decoding in flash so it doesnt use UVLD...
 
Yeah, I thought of that but I still think this is a bug in the driver, it should up the clocks to 3d clocks when a 3d app loads regardless.

Also I was wondering if anyone else sees this or just me?
 
extide said:
So I have noticed this issue, it happened on my 6950 CfX setup, and my 7970.

Say if I have a browser open to youtube, (I listen to a lot of music this way) it will force my video card clocks to "501" EVEN after I open up a game EVEN if I minimize the browser window thats playing the flash. This obviously makes games run like crap. It's really annoying. Am I the only one seeing this? Anyone got a workaround? I think I might just slap another video card in here and use that for my other monitors so I can have the videos playing on the secondary card.

Thoughts?
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Huh, interesting. This helps clarify stories I've been hearing of people getting terrible framerate in games when they have Youtube open in the background. I found the stories odd at first, as Youtube/a browser shouldn't affect the GPU to such a degree, but alas, so it might.
 
Yeah it seems like this should have been easily noticed and fixed by now.

It's really easy to diagnose, just run GPU-Z in the bg when you have youtube + a game going and you will see. Make sure to check the box so GPU-Z updates in the bg.
 
its not a bug, its by design

UVLD requires a specific clock....it cannot be changed.

close your media, the clocks will reset.
 
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