720p 60fps stutter heavily (youtube and any other streaming platform)

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hello Endeavour OS Dev Team
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First of all, big thank you and thumbs up for this arch flavour you guys created
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Second, im a distro-hopper until now because for god-knows-why my laptop is lagging heavily even tho im using xfce
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Third, here is my hardware spec:
-HP 14cm00xxxx
-AMD E2-9000e Raven Ridge (1.1Ghz-1.5Ghz with boost)
-Integrated GPU Radeon R2 Stoney Ridge
-1TB HDD
-UEFI non-dualboot
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Now, for the additional info :

Ive tried numerous tweaks (swap, governor changing, i/o, etc) even the performance-tweaks from aur

Got my governor and clockspeed adjusted to maximum, i dont even care about battery life no more as long as i can save this laptop from lagging.

My question is :

Is there anything i could do ? Like what am i missing here ? Got my microcode installed, proprietary driver installed and so on. Ive moved from windows 10 because i wanna smash this laptop so bad for the horrendous lag.

Maybe my system wasnt optimized ? Or what ?

Thank you for reading this far, cuz im really frustrated about this laptop (cant afford a new one, covid hits me hard)

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Do you have any file indexing services enabled? Like baloo in KDE. They are known to create lag on fresh installs.

If that’s not the case, try a LTS kernel, or even an older one. On my ancient laptop I still have to use kernel version 4.19.

Also, try downloading a Youtube video (using youtube-dl) and playing it offline.

Welcome to the forum.

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Ok thank you for the advice, i’ll see what i can do :pray:

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Welcome to the forum @Syl0. I originally hadn’t checked the ‘base and other packages’ folder on install, and had graphics issues with fully AMD system. I don’t know if you’ve looked in that folder, but graphics drivers are there. When I unchecked what I didn’t need, install went perfectly. Great to have those options on install!

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Should i really go for another fresh install ? I mean is there a way to access it post install ??

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No, there is probably no need for fresh install.

Can you please post the output of

inxi -Fxxxaz

(if you don’t have inxi installed, install it with sudo pacman -S inxi)?

This will show all the relevant hardware and driver info.

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Sorry, I should have added that you should be able to remove any drivers you don’t need.

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System:    Kernel: 5.8.7-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux 
           root=UUID=7ac473d0-a6ee-4bdf-9fd3-5162df111a28 rw quiet 
           resume=UUID=9d2ea45e-d9fc-4f51-a50a-aa8d75570356 loglevel=3 nowatchdog 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.20 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
           Distro: EndeavourOS 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 14-cm0xxx v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 84A0 v: 83.19 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.24 date: 01/04/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 18.7 Wh condition: 39.6/39.6 Wh (100%) volts: 11.2/11.6 
           model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: AMD E2-9000e RADEON R2 4 COMPUTE CORES 2C+2G bits: 64 
           type: MCP arch: Excavator family: 15 (21) model-id: 70 (112) stepping: N/A 
           microcode: 6006705 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 5990 
           Speed: 798 MHz max: 1500 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:98e4 
           Device-2: Quanta type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-1.1:3 chip ID: 0408:5362 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           display ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
           s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
           Monitor-1: eDP res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 112 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8") 
           diag: 354mm (13.9") 
           Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing. 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.1 
           chip ID: 1002:15b3 
           Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:09.2 chip ID: 1022:157a 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.7-arch1-1 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8168 v: 8.048.03-NAPI modules: r8169 port: e000 
           bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8723DE 802.11b/g/n PCIe Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: rtw_8723de v: N/A modules: rtw88_8723de port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           chip ID: 10ec:d723 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 6.65 GiB (0.7%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: RSM7 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 923.02 GiB size: 907.53 GiB (98.32%) used: 6.65 GiB (0.7%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda2 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 5 (default 60) cache pressure: 50 (default 100) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.20 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda3 
           ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 476.8 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 
           dev: /dev/zram0 
           ID-3: swap-3 type: zram size: 476.8 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 
           dev: /dev/zram1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.5 C mobo: 0.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 42.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 171 Uptime: 2h 47m Memory: 3.72 GiB used: 1.25 GiB (33.6%) Init: systemd 
           v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 802 lib: 196 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 
           running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.1.06
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My guess is that the CPU is to slow for 60fps, you have to use hardware video acceleration through the build-in GPU. Are you able to play a local file 720p 60fps without problems (e.g. in VLC)? If yes, that’s the issue. To enable hardware acceleration in a browser see: Chromium or Firefox.

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Will try and report, thanks :pray:

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