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imhereforonequestion
Nov 02, 2021Copper Contributor
Windows 11 video lag
Ever since I installed Windows 11 in mid July after joining Windows Insider Program I've experienced severe lags while watching any types of videos whether it's Youtube player or .mkv files. Usually ...
Jgalster
Oct 10, 2022Copper Contributor
imhereforonequestion I have been suffering the same problem for some time now. When playback of any video be it online or locally stored, there would be what I could only discern as video lag or buffering for up to 15 to 30 seconds. After the initial buffering everything would be fine. Not really a big deal but very annoying to say the least. After many hours of research and troubleshooting it found that the culprit was the RealTek audio driver. Start by uninstalling that driver and locating the correct Intel audio device driver and installing that. After doing this I've had no further problems with any video playback.