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GPU-Z 0.7.9 + Youtube = computer freezes

j24

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I have Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X GPU (drivers 14.4), Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit and newest Flash Player. This problem occurs in both Firefox 32 beta 6, and Internet Explorer 11. When I'm watching videos on Youtube or similar websites, I can't run GPU-Z 0.7.9 because computer immediately freezes (GPU-Z 0.7.8 works perfectly fine). Flash games or flash advertisements on sites doesn't cause freezing, only videos are causing freezing. Is this problem happening only to me ?
 
Single card or CrossFire ?
 
Hardware Acceleration feature in my browsers was the source of my problems. I turned it off, and now everything works ok.
 
does the problem go away when you turn off the sensor refresh in background?
 
No the problem is still there. Only turning off Hardware Acceleration in browsers helps.
 
Can't replicate. Any chance your card is overclocked too high?
 
I didn't overclocked GPU, everything else (games, benchmark programs) works perfectly fine, the problem is only with GPU-Z 0.7.9. When I run GPU-Z first and then start watching Youtube everything is ok, but if I do this backwards, computer freezes. GPU-Z 0.7.8 worked ok, only this new version is causing problems.
 
oooh, so you start the video, and while the video is playing you start gpuz ?

of course, you said that in your original post and i missed it completely ..

off to reproduce again
 
ok, i could reproduce it now. let me check what causes it
 
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