YouTube “Lag” and “Stuttering” on the new MacBook Pro’s…
Like others have mentioned on here already, ProMotion isn’t working in a lot of Apple’s own apps. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
I’ve found that when playing 1080p60 (or higher) on YouTube on Safari it’ll stutter. To “fix” this, change your Refresh Rate to 60 in the Settings.
EDIT:
Not sure if it was an Apple fix or YouTube fix, but all video plays buttery smooth now.
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That fixed it thank you!
Same problem and noticed it sinds yesterday ... this is a workaround in Google Chrome... but not a fan of turning off hardware acceleration! Does anybody knows which previous built worked?As it still worked last week... and problems turned up yesterday...
With acceleration off, scrolling the youtube website on Chrome feels choppier than with it enabled... Macbook 14 M3 pro 12cpu/18gpu
If you still wish to keep Hardware Acceleration on, try the following: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1au052s/comment/kr5nxxe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button - just tested, works perfectly.
Thank you one thousand times!
I just bought a m3 pro max 48gigs of ram with 40cores and i couldnt understand why a $6k mac couldnt handle youtube...
Thanks again!
Same issue on same device, will follow your instruction and report back!
Thank you! This was the fix! I just looked up "hardware" keyword in the chrome settings page and it was the first item. Hulu was showing blackscreen with audio and this also fixed that issue as well. I am currently using Macbook Pro M3 Max.
What browser are you using?
Still having this issue. M1 Studio Ultra.
Maddening....
I had exactly the same problem using safari. I fixed it by changing the screen resolution so the standard one. Even though its native 2560x1600 (if I remember correctly) changing it to that resolution makes watching YouTube sloppy. It also fixed the sluggishness of the OS as well. It's kinda weird.
Yeah I was surprised promotion was having issues becuase none of the reviewers I saw discussed it. I think it will be as good as the iPad Pro soon, but it was jarring becuase I expected it to be the same.
I'm having the same issue, changing the refresh rate did not fix it.
Youtube stutters terribly on my mbp 2021 and setting it to 60 hz sadly did not fix it. tested on firefox and safari.
Same problem. Have you resolved it?
have you been able to resolve this issue? Im having the same problem.
Have you resolved it? I'm facing the same problem. Each time when I play the video for about 2 minutes, then it will freezes forever and doesn't resume. Same on Safari, Edge and Chrome.
My Refresh Rate is already 60Hz but YouTube still noticeably has subtle lagging. I tried disabling automatic graphics card switching in the Battery settings too but no resolution.
Latest Chrome, reinstalled a fresh Chrome too. Using a relatively fresh macOS Ventura on a MacBook Pro 2019 - 3D games from the past few years run much smoother than Chrome's YouTube video streaming. I feel like it's not a hardware limitation, the specs are above recommended for YouTube.
Very few extensions in Chrome - only exactly what I immediately need, all others disabled until needed since they take up memory and possibly even extra CPU in background Chrome processes.