Many Windows 11 users have experienced severe video lag across all apps and video platforms.
Video playback is sometimes delayed by 5-10 seconds across all media players and streaming platforms.
This is a really annoying issue, especially when youre trying to watch your favorite Netflix series.
Lets see what you’ve got the option to do to troubleshoot video lag on Windows 11.
Use the gear Manager to automatically revamp your drivers or manually download them from your GPU manufacturers website.
If this is the case, right-click again on your graphics driver and selectUninstall unit.
kickstart your setup to reinstall the GPU driver.
Disable Hardware Acceleration
Try disabling hardware acceleration if youre experiencing video lag on Netflix or Youtube.
Open a new surfing app tab, go toSettings,and pop in hardware acceleration in the Search field.
Toggle off hardware acceleration, refresh your internet tool, and look to see if you notice any improvements.
Close all the unnecessary programs running in the background to free up more system resources for playing videos.
you’re free to use the Task Manager to list and force-stop background programs.
Alternatively, you could alsoclean boot your setup.
For example, Edge automatically puts inactive tabs to sleep to reduce memory and CPU usage.
Videos may sometimes stutter when youre using Picture-in-Picture mode on Edge.
The focus goes to the foreground area.
This may sometimes cause background processes such as video playback to suffer.
Then, go to web app tweaks, and disable hardware acceleration.
Close unnecessary background programs to free up system resources.
If this issue affects Picture-in-Picture mode when playing games, cap your FPS configs.
