why exactly is our laptop using the 3d engine of our gpu to play youtube videos instead of using the video decode engine, and more importantly, why is it still doing this when the video is a) paused and b) in a background tab

@Felthry Task Manager regularly misreports what part of the GPU is being used

@noiob oh. is there a more accurate system resources thing? Anyway i'm also wondering why it's using so much when it's in a background tab and paused because it shouldn't be *doing* anything, it doesn't even have to render a static frame

@noiob i mostly just want it not to have "very high" power usage when it's not doing anything

@Felthry does it actually, though? check your GPU driver's stuff

@noiob well it keeps revving up the fans, so i'd assume so at least

@noiob task manager says that waterfox is currently using "GPU 0 - 3D" and consuming a "very high" amount of power

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