AMD CPU locks up during video playback

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 17:00:45 -0700
MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's always the option of getting a different, more powerful and
> friendly video card for the Ryzen 9, but I'm not sure where to start.
> I'm not a gamer so don't need anything too powerful, but I'd be much
> happier with something that's relatively inexpensive (under $200
> preferably) and that won't cripple the machine.  Suggestions
> welcome...
> 
> Thanks again, everyone.
> 
> Mark
> 

it is very likely your video card causing the issue. The GT710 can't
cope with the high compression of the video streams, it could be
decoding as low as 6-7 fps. where as a GT 1080 would be about 150fps