There was a time when small friezes and slowdowns when watching a video did not cause discontent, but with the current capacities of processors and video cards each frame stopped causes a storm of indignation. This article will help you to understand why the video on the computer slows down and what to do about it.
Depending on how and where the video slows down, you can diagnose the exact cause of the problem, so we divide our problems into two large camps: software problems and hardware. At the end we will look at problems with online playback.
Software problems
Software problems are all about installed and not installed software on our computer. There are plenty of factors that can cause the video to slow down, so we’ll dwell here.
Driver problems
Very often, immediately after installing or reinstalling Windows, people simply forget about the driver for the graphics adapter. You can see the activity and relevance of such in the device manager, go to the line "Video adapters", if the driver is outdated or replaced by a standard universal driver - you will see a yellow exclamation mark.
Putting a driver is not at all difficult; it’s enough to download the right one from the manufacturer’s site There are two manufacturers: INVIDIA and ATI. You can determine the desired company by using the same line “Display adapters” in the Device Manager. You can also find the driver by the hardware ID, for this you need to right-click on the line of interest in the manager, go to the “Properties” item in the “Details” tab and select the item “Equipment ID” in the drop-down list (the method is suitable for any device in including so you can put the driver on the sound). On specialized sites, any of the suggested IDs will help you find the driver you need.
Click Properties in the drop-down menu.
Video codecs
Video codecs are special libraries that store information for playing files with various extensions. If you do not have suitable codecs to play video, it may slow down or not open at all. Help in this matter is the K-Lite Codec Pack, there are several versions freely available, most users should have enough Mega. By the way, in this package there are also audio codecs, so if your video and sound on your computer slows down, such a decision will be very useful.
Other programs
It so happened that inexperienced users unknowingly install an incredible number of programs on their device, so the banal autorun clogging can play a very bad trick on the performance of a computer. First of all we will be engaged in its cleaning.
If you do not want to press a lot of buttons - just install CCleaner and in a special section turn off all unnecessary programs like Satellite Mail.ru. If you still do not understand what we are doing: when you start the computer, all the programs that are in the startup section start up, this greatly loads the processor, we do not get rid of these programs, but start them automatically when Windows starts. You can do the same in “manual” mode.
Remove memory-intensive programs. For example, applications from Mail.ru
Press the key combination Win + R, inside the window that appears we write msconfig. Next, open the "Startup" tab and in the same way, uncheck all unnecessary programs.
Viruses
Oh, those viruses. No matter how much the hapless user warns about the danger on third-party sites, he will always click on tempting advertisements and receive his dose of worms, Trojans and other evil spirits. Everything is simple - we install an antivirus or use antiviral utilities, and in the meantime we move on to the second part.
Hardware problems
Sound or video can slow down not because of contamination by programs and viruses, but because of the real dust that accumulates on the fans and radiators of your computer, whether you like it or not. Most often, the computer begins to slow down from the banal overheating, so we arm ourselves with a vacuum cleaner, preferably one that can blow air, open the housing lid and begin clearing.
Such a picture is hardly conducive to computer performance, is it? ????
Places where you need to pay attention - the video card and processor. We remove the video card, depending on the type of video card, remove the cooler and change the thermal paste, if the video adapter is completely old, then we just remove dust. We do the same with the processor, remove the fan, the radiator, clean them, change the thermal paste, put everything back.
Problems may also arise when the wrong selection of components. If you have an antediluvian processor and a cool video card, it won't work. Look also at the amount of your RAM, replace or add more, if it is very small.
A picture can slow down on a large number of monitors or on a single too large monitor. The graphics card is involved in image processing and video streaming; therefore, the bus size and the volume of its local video memory determine its ability to serve large screens. Conclusion: if you want a big screen - buy a good video card.
If you have a laptop - check the power mode. Ultra saving mode may simply not give enough power to your video card.
Problems with online video and audio playback
Still, most of the video is now viewed online, so in this section we will understand why it slows down the video online on your computer. Actually, all previous factors in the same way affect online playback, but still there are some nuances in this issue.
Flash player
Very often, users can not view the video due to the banal absence of the player. Many believe that the presence of a dozen players on the computer provide it for playback and on the Internet, this is not so. In the most general case, you just need to install or reinstall the Flash player from the official Adobe site. It is worth mentioning that the installation of additional plug-ins is not required for browsers of the Chromium family (Chrome, Yandex Browser and others).
The reason for errors during playback may be outdated Flash player.
Low connection speed
It's all very simple, bad internet is a bad picture. We use online tests for speed and, if necessary, change the Internet.
Conclusion
If none of this helps - contact a specialist. Naturally, we have not touched on all aspects, there are many problems that can slow down video or sound. If you have any questions - ask them in the comments!