Slower fps in gaming with flash videos open

[pcslookout]

Does this make sense? I had a couple of youtube videos open in a few tabs on firefox and my fps in Battlefield 3 were a little less by about 10 fps. Is this normal ?

 

[lxskllr]

I'd expect it would be. Flash is kind of a pig, and the videos would be using resources that would otherwise go to the game.

 

[Merad]

Most GPUs have an idle clock speed, a maximum speed that's supposed to be activated for 3D applications, and a sort of mid-range clock speed that's usually for video playback. I'd suspect that for some reason your card is not throttling up to full speed and is staying stuck at the video playback speeds.

 

[plion]

i unchecked 'enable hardware acceleration' by right clicking on a video and going into settings. I think it helps I'm not sure though maybe somewhere else can chime in

 

[Leros]

Flash does use hardware acceleration, so your GPU is being shared between the game and Flash. Flash is also a CPU hog.

 

[happysmiles]

flash uses GPU.