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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 ?
 

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Single card or CrossFire ?
 

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Hardware Acceleration feature in my browsers was the source of my problems. I turned it off, and now everything works ok.
 

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does the problem go away when you turn off the sensor refresh in background?
 

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No the problem is still there. Only turning off Hardware Acceleration in browsers helps.
 

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Can't replicate. Any chance your card is overclocked too high?
 

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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.
 

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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
 

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