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I experience a heavy system load (especially if I'm watching videos or listening to music on soundcloud) if I use the hardware acceleration feature in Chromium.
I use the standard linux kernel(not the lts one) and the drivers from the nvidia-package. I got a Nvidia GeForce GT 525M GPU.
If I deactivate the hardware acceleration feature in chromium, it doesn't need so much system resources, but maybe there are more factors which cause the heavy system load.
I'd like to be able to activate the feature, because otherwise I can't scroll through webpages smoothly.
The same thing happens if I use the google-chrome package from the AUR.
Has somebody experienced the same problem and/or has ideas how to solve it?
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Have you tried the beta or unstable channels for Chrome? There might be fixes already implemented.
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I just tried google-chrome-beta from the AUR, but it doesn't make any difference.
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Isn't HW acceleration disabled by default on Linux? AFAIR it always had a lot of problems.
Last edited by dwe11er (2014-10-22 13:32:17)
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Could it be the fault of the nvidia drivers?
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Nevermind, I just found this. Seems like it's the fault of chromium.
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