Youtube (Flash Player 10) shooting CPU High

[ks_tiwari]

I observed that in my both laptop CPU shoots up nearly 100% whenever i run any application that requires Flash player. I am running the latest Flash Player. I believe it is a well known issue frying computers and Adobe is not responding at all. I tried to find solution everywhere, even tried older version but it is not helping a lot. I have tried various browsers too, the finally culprit to pin down is flash player only. You may want to check your computer and post here.

Check your CPU usage when browser has google.com open and then check your CPU while your running this video in HQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SFMaqkiJxI

Laptop. Centrino 2.0GHz, 2GB RAM
Browser: Chrome
Google page: 0-2% CPU
Youtube link: 60-68 % CPU

Laptop AMD athalon(m) 2400+, 512MB (Minimal XP installation only for browsing)
Browser: chrome
Google Page: 4-6%
Youtube link: 94-100%

PLEASE POST YOUR CPU USAGE

[ShadowVlican]

did you install ur graphics card drivers?

[ks_tiwari]

did you install ur graphics card drivers?

Of'course all my graphic adapters are running latest version of driver.

[Badman]

lol is the op serious?

[Ninjai]

The amd is like running at 1.33ghz and has 1.5gb less ram that may be a factor..

[Amourek]

Your CPU usage is high because the CPUs you're using are slow. Flash requires a lot of CPU power, especially if you turn on HQ or HD.

[sfu_lifer]

Don't worry. Give it another half year or so. GPU accelerated flash is coming. HD Flash is esp taxing.

[Amourek]

Don't worry. Give it another half year or so. GPU accelerated flash is coming. HD Flash is esp taxing.

OP's laptops are fairly old, it's highly unlikely their GPUs will support that.

[ks_tiwari]

My Centrino laptop is able to play High Def on VLC player without a hitch. I agree AMD laptop is old but shooting 100% is unusually high. Somewhere i read that even in quad core, flash player 10 saturated two of his core... Please check your system and let me know !

[B0000rt]

try a different browser.. chrome doesn't work properly on my PC (E8400@4GHz) or my Notebook (T400) for Target's Flash based ads... It runs perfectly fine in Firefox and IE8.

[ks_tiwari]

IE8 is so far the best with flash based video while FF and chrome's are using high cpu.

[gambit_360]

The youtube link you posted isn't even video. It was just a series of HQ stills.
I was able to play it perfectly in HQ even with an Atom processor. Usually, with true HD youtube, it's usually unplayable on that.
My CPU was running at around 60%. Running Firefox.

I looked at your benched numbers and they looked normal to me...until I tried out your link. The atom is way slower than both your PC's and I'm posting better numbers.

[ks_tiwari]

If you play same url in VLC player, it uses much lower cpu but video is little soft.

[mr_raider]

To put it bluntly, flash sucks. It is a god awful CPU intensive POS, coded by monkeys. Full Screen HD Bluray takes less of a hit on my CPU than HD flash. Even regualr Flash will makes CPUs spin out of low power mode.

[markj]

flash is a major cpu hog...my laptops fan always speeds up only when watching a flash video...a mkv 720p is fine...go figure...

[ks_tiwari]

To put it bluntly, flash sucks. It is a god awful CPU intensive POS, coded by monkeys. Full Screen HD Bluray takes less of a hit on my CPU than HD flash. Even regualr Flash will makes CPUs spin out of low power mode.

+1 Totally agree ! They need to rewrite the whole code again. A completely out of strategically written code suck on CPU.


flash is a major cpu hog...my laptops fan always speeds up only when watching a flash video...a mkv 720p is fine...go figure...

I was surprised with that too and completely agreed that flash player is one of the worst program being used everywhere in large scale.... Wake up Adobe !!

Another thing i noticed that it heats up RAM like Hell.

[B0000rt]

I was surprised with that too and completely agreed that flash player is one of the worst program being used everywhere in large scale.... Wake up Adobe !!

Another thing i noticed that it heats up RAM like Hell.

They're working on it
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/gpu-accelerated-720p-flash-video-gets-demoed-on-a-netbook-smoot/

[TakumiDC5]

Yup wife's macbook has the same behaviour.

CPU usage is around 40-50% on a core2duo macbook, which means its using up almost an entire core. And the youtube is not even playing, its just paused there.

The fans speed up to 6000rpm and the cpu temps hit 68-70 C. Ridiculous :cry:

[Badman]

They're working on it
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/gpu-accelerated-720p-flash-video-gets-demoed-on-a-netbook-smoot/

I hope they make it GPU accelerated for more then just Ion. Make it pretty much all mobile graphics at least.

[B0000rt]

I hope they make it GPU accelerated for more then just Ion. Make it pretty much all mobile graphics at least.

Probably all Nvidia GPUs...

[ks_tiwari]

They should rewrite the code from scratch ....

[CSAgent]

E8400 @ 3ghz. 3.25GB of RAM.

52 processes running. Seeding 10 torrents, downloading 2. Watching HD videos on YouTube. 3-4% CPU utilization. Looks like it's your system and not Flash on YouTube.

[ks_tiwari]

E8400 @ 3ghz. 3.25GB of RAM.

52 processes running. Seeding 10 torrents, downloading 2. Watching HD videos on YouTube. 3-4% CPU utilization. Looks like it's your system and not Flash on YouTube.

Your system seems fine, can you check what version of flash player you have and browser you are using.

[TCWeasel]

Virus software and/or firewall software can also have that effect, in particular I've found that Zone Alarm can spike the CPU in some instances.

[CSAgent]

Your system seems fine, can you check what version of flash player you have and browser you are using.

Firefox 3.5.3 + Flash Player 10.