Watching BT sports using Chrome or Edge problem. *

 


In the last week or so I have started having problems when watching BT sports using Chrome or Microsoft Edge. This method has worked fine for me for a few years now so something has changed. The stream seems to have a problem of some kind, keeps buffering, stuttering etc. My broadband speed is 200mB/s so no bandwidth problem. I have found a solution to this but would like a fix. If I use Firefox web browser the stream is rock solid and works fine without and stuttering. This seems to imply that Chrome or Edge are managing the stream differently.



After doing some research I have found a fix for this. Removing Hardware acceleration the problem seems to be fixed. For online games that need hardware acceleration I use EDGE and anything else I use Chrome with Hardware Acceleration turned off.


Comments welcome.



Hardware acceleration in computing happens when an application will offload tasks onto a GPU, also known as GPU rendering. Web browsers have the option to use this option which can be turned on or off. This can be problematic at times. Known problems with browser hardware acceleration. lag or hanging in browser, Web browser crashing frequently and randomly, Web browser is very slow at startup, Fonts and text look weird, Keyboard lag while typing in text boxes on web pages, Colors are either very bright or very dull while browsing web pages, high CPU usage and high RAM amount.

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