Stuttering and crashing issues while playing YouTube videos on Google Chrome seem to have become rampant recently. Users complain of frustrating PC freezes, black screens and the notorious Blue Screen of Death when simply streaming videos on the popular browser.
Upon investigation, this Chrome YouTube crash bug stems from multiple factors instead of a single underlying issue. Firstly, defective graphics card drivers can corrupt hardware accelerated video rendering leading to system instability. Updating to the latest GPU drivers improves stability in most cases.
However, we also see crashes persist even after driver updates especially on older PCs with dated configurations. This points to hardware acceleration as the culpable factor where enabling GPU video decoding overloads limited resources.
Thankfully, the fix is simple - navigating to Chrome's settings and disabling the "Use hardware acceleration" option under System section. This gracefully falls back to software decoding thereby preventing resource contention.
With this trivial tweak, users have reported tremendous improvements with no more YouTube-triggered crashes or freezes. So don't let defective Chrome settings ruin your video streaming experience. A bit of optimized troubleshooting can comfortably resolve playback crashes for smooth viewing.
Step by step solution is given below.
- Go to settings
- Select system
- Disable "Use hardware acceleration when available" as shown in screenshot below
- After disabling hardware acceleration, relaunch your browser.
- Problem will be solved now.
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