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Edge Chromium dropping frames on YouTube videos
Fumega I shared this thread with the team, and after looking into this, they're found our current performance to be comparable with other browsers, but also note that performance may be affected by hardware. However, I am happy to confirm that they're actively looking into improving the mechanics behind this.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Were you able to resolve this? I am having the same issue. Chromium Edge drops a lot of frames, Chrome drop very little while Firefox drops no frame.
Zaheer_id Thanks for following-up on this, and welcome to the MSFT Edge Insider's community! While I am not aware of any further developments, it looks like the team will be working on it soon.
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeDeleted I have done some further testing, on my system here as someone who is in another country to me watched the same video as me and was able to not see any dropped frames and it got me thinking some more.
I did a bit more of a google search and came across this
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/poor-youtube-performance-on-chrome-and-edge.3359732/At the very bottom it talks about screen duplication and I feel that it has almost hit the nail on the head, so I did some more tests.
1) I turned my second monitor off, nope still got the issue.
2) Made everything go to my main monitor, nope still did it.3) Made everything go to my second monitor, and it stopped dropping frames.
Ok, so switched everything back to my main monitor, dropped the resolution from 4K down to 1080p and it stopped dropping frames.
At this point, I am like what the.....
So I then switched my second monitor back to extended and no dropped frames, but the moment I switched back to 4K, I am getting dropped frames again.
Now there is also another thing, Windows 10 for some reason, makes all the text on my 4K monitor really, really small when I am in 4K, yet in 1080p it is not. It is like Windows 10 is not scaling Window Titles correctly with the DPI. I am wondering if this is an issue with these two browsers.
To test this further, I tried this on my Surface 3. At native resolution with DPI scaling at 150%, got dropped frames. Set DPI scaling back to 100%, no dropped frames.So the question is, did Windows 10 introduce something or did a combination of Windows 10 and Chromium introduce something.
I am still stumped why FireFox and Brave have no issues no matter what though!
Deleted I have just noticed that both Chrome and Edge are having major issues with YouTube videos, in a lot of cases there is around 50% dropped frames on both Applications.
I also use another Chromium Browser called Brave, which does not have this issue. And FireFox also does not have this issue.In both Edge and Chrome, I can watch a 4K video, and in no time the quality of the video is down to 360p. When you watch a lot of programming videos, they are so blurry you can't read what is going on.
I don't know how anyone who uses Chromium, has not seen how bad this is, but it is right now enough for me to move away from both browsers and never ever return to them.
CyberAngel From my observations: Brave works the best for me right now. Chrome is close enough too. I have little issues with firefox but it's great. My favorite browser and my default was edge chromium for more than a year and I changed it to brave today. 1 week of a nightmare. I wasn't even able to play 720p videos. Tried re-installing too. Didn't work.
Deleted From past few days, Youtube is dropping a ton of frames for me. Chrome drops 50 out of 3000 frames and brave 20-30 out of 3000 for 4k 60fps videos. Meanwhile edge chromium is dropping 500 out of 700 frames for even 720p 60 video. Using edge chromium from a year or more and never faced such issues. It's totally unwatchable and unbearable Please fix it.
Doom_Slayer It is certainly not flawless. I keep seeing random frames dropping even after one'd think it has started working smoothly.
