Flash videos laggy

[S1MON]

This has been doing my head in for a long while, my laptop is a few years old now but is still ok for most things I do on here. But when it comes to playing Flash videos on some websites mainly pr0n and facebook videos they lag like hell and either all i can hear is the audio and video takes ages to catch up or its like i'm watching the video in slow motion.. put the video in full screen and it plays fine. YouTube is normally fine, apart from HD videos they lag like hell.

Using Firefox latest version, latest version of Flash etc. Tried turning off hardware acceleration and other things ive found on Google.

Any ideas on what to try.

 

[S1MON]

Anyonee???

 

[sbridgey]

What does task manager say whilst you are running the videos? Click the performance tab.

 

[zeta]

Flash is inherently CPU intensive. ^do this and check what's raping the machine during p**n

 

[S1MON]

Noticed teatimer.exe was raping the cpu disabled it hoping ti would fix it but it hasn't... just think I need a new laptop tbh. Screenshots to follow..

 

[S1MON]

 

[zeta]

106 processes is wayyyy too much to be running. Spesh on Vista. run msconfig and do a swift cull of startup items and services that aren't essential.

Nice slut btw. She looks thirsty

 

[McGherkin]

Lol at the screengrabs!

Tried without skype?

 

[S1MON]

There is only 15 items starting on start up.

I rarely shut my laptop down properly, and always leave it in 'hibernation' Will this clog the memory up.

 

[S1MON]

Lol at the screengrabs!

Tried without skype?

Had to be realistic didn't it? haha

Ive just closed Skype i'll give it another shot...

edit: No joy started off well so paused it open another video and played that.. all gone laggy and s**t

 

[zeta]

There is only 15 items starting on start up.

I rarely shut my laptop down properly, and always leave it in 'hibernation' Will this clog the memory up.

Are they essential? Also check the services, tick the hide microsoft services and see what's in there. Should be running about 50 processes tops

 

[S1MON]

Just removed a few, doing a restart and getting the c100001a error code or something like that, did it other day.

 

[sbridgey]

I would check its all up to date, windows, flash, java etc.

Then close everything from the tray that is not required and try again.

 

[S1MON]

C00000021a

Blue screen error. That's a corrupt windows boot up file? I think it's time for a new laptop.. any interest free websites with half decent laptops?

 

[sbridgey]

Just re-install windows, windows 8 is £30 i think. Much cheaper than a new laptop.

 

[S1MON]

It's 5 years old has been dropped on the floor numerous times the fan sounds like a jet engine and randomly starts and stops. Pretty temperamental. It's working again now.
Back up of my photos and music and a format sounds like a good call though

 

[sbridgey]

Back it all up and get a macbook air 13.

 

[McGherkin]

Can't you just do a system recovery back to factory spec?

 

[S1MON]

Na want to stick with Windows tbh, I bought a Asus tablet thing with a keyboard attachment 2 years ago, its just gathering dust now, was ideal when i was travelling and going away alot but just doesn't beat a laptop.

Do you mean just restore system/windows files?

 

[McGherkin]

Do you mean just restore system/windows files?

I don't think it's possible on Windows 8 now, but you used to be able to completely wipe the hard drive, and then reinstall a clean OS either from a dedicated hard drive partition or from a CD/DVD.

 

[S1MON]

Yeah ive got the seperate partition for the system files on this machine its a HP thing.


What confuses me is that videos play fine in fullscreen.

 

[Badgerman85]

My Firefox does this regularly, its the way it handles plugins like flash etc, CPU maxes out, there's a way to disable the plugin container which makes flash run within the Firefox process rather than as a separate one, seemed to make it a lot faster!