HERE’s what happens: when you browse the Internet with Google Chrome or use Word, Excel, the computer works perfectly; but when it comes to watching videos on YouTube, Netflix, or Windows Media Player, and everything seems lagging on your PC.

Low-performance PC when video playing boils down to hardware problems and software ones. In this article, you will learn why your PC runs slowly when playing videos for the software part and the solution to fix it.


Step 1 Check if your Network is taken up by the data-hungry programs

To see which programs you are running are hogging up resources, you can take advantage of Task Manager.

->Press CTRL+ALT+DEL on the keyboard to open Task Manager.

->Click on the Process tab, find Network percentage, and disable the video-unrelated programs with high network resources.


Step 2 Check if Processor is running near maximum

If your PC processor is running up to its limitation, then the whole computer would slow down in case overheating occurs. To fix this, you can keep the Task Manager open, and then do the following to free up some performance power:

->Select the programs that are not necessary for video playing, and that takes up too much CPU and RAM index and hit End Task.


Step 3 Check if the Player (Flash Player) is outdated

Though Adobe Flash stops its service in 2020, now you still need it to play video on the websites. Just go to Adobe official site, download and install the latest version of Flash.


Step 4 Clean and Update your Browser

Cleaning the cache and watched videos can help you reload the video again. Newest browser versions can handle high-quality video playing because more video repository sites like YouTube allow for higher quality footage uploads. Old browser versions, or bugged browser versions, may limit video play so that your PC seems stuck when you watching the video.


After finishing the steps above, you really should get your PC a nice system utility to maintain the fast running speed. Neptune SystemCare Ultimate is a one-in-all PC solution to protect your PC from freezes and slow responding and make it faster.