When watching youtube videos on my second monitor, and i hit a loading screen in WoW, it causes my videos to buffer and lock up.
Anyone know why? This is the only game that does it.
Because WoW and youtube are rivals.
(On a more serious note, I have zero clues why, but just be grateful you don’t have glitches like my computer…)
You should take this to the tech support forums.
Happens to me as well. Try setting the quality to max manually instead of letting youtube keep it on auto.
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/896620-youtube-stutter-when-full-screen-while-playing-game-dual-monitor-240hertz-60hertz/
Might find some answers in there.
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Their both located in youtube and lick the ccp boot.
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If there is a problem Blizzard will deny it. Remember back when minimizing or tabbing out of WoW caused the game to crash. Blizzard denied it was on their end until they actually fixed it.
If your videos are buffering and pausing on YouTube, you’re running out of bandwidth.
That’s the last thing you’d want to do (force YouTube to use more bandwidth) if you are running out of bandwidth.
Unless you are running some old DSL or ancient type of internet hookup, you should be able to play WoW (which takes, absolute maximum, about a megabit per second during normal gameplay. It usually hovers at about a tenth of that.)
Say you have 10 megabit. WoW is taking 0.25 - 0.5 megabit while you play. This leaves you with - at least - 9 megabit to play some YouTube vids.
You can stream HD with ease on a 9 megabit connection.
Now, likely you have more than 10 megabit, so streaming YouTube and playing WoW are entirely within the realm of possibility.
So what’s happening?
Dunno. Your system or other people on your network are using up your bandwidth. (Perhaps the new background download for the pre-patch is eating it up.) Your best bet is to monitor it for a minute to see what’s going on.
You can do this through Task Manager (Right click on Start → Task Manager → Performance tab → Click Ethernet on the left,) but I’d really recommend something better and easier, like Glasswire. Glasswire is free, it provides real-time monitoring of bandwidth usage, and you can even limit the tracking to a single program, or any combination of programs, to watch even more closely.
www.glasswire.com
OP, if the bandwidth monitoring provides no leads, check this as well. If you had only reported “stuttering,” I’d have suggested something like this first. However, since you reported “buffering,” (which people really only say if they see the buffering circle pop up,) I’m inclined to check bandwidth issues first.
Stuttering may happen due to driver issues or dual monitors, etc., but that buffering circle will virtually never pop up unless YouTube is looking for more bandwidth and doesn’t find it available. Sometimes an ad blocker or script blocker will fail to update when YouTube changes their internal code, and then you may get the buffering circle too (when the ads won’t load), but again, that’s rare, and normally affects only a few users for a short period of time.)
Nah its not a bandwidth issue. The videos are already buffered ahead a minute or two.
I know this is an old thread, but if anyone is having this issue try disabling “Hardware Acceleration” in your browser.
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