Youtube causing lag spikes in online games

Theron2290

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Mar 31, 2017
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Hello everyone,

I have been having an annoying issue for a while now and, for the life of me, cannot find the reason. I have two monitors and sometimes like to watch some random videos on Youtube and play an online game on the other(notably World of Tanks or League of Legends). I have noticed that Youtube causes pretty notable lag spikes randomly. When i would watch a video on another website however, everything will be fine.

I am also hard lined to the network and am getting 120 mbps down and 6 up so i feel there should be no reason for the lag. If anyone has any ideas i would really appreciate it.

I5-3570k 3.40 GHz
16 GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 4GB
 
Solution
Let us know which browser this happens on, please try more then one. It may just be a browser thing. I do the same as you but haven't run into any lag spike. I use Firefox mostly.

Theron2290

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Hello, thank you for responding to my issue. Unfortunately i don't believe that this is the problem as some of the other websites i view videos on where there are no issues also use HTML5.