When I play Youtube videos on my PowerPC G4 10.5.8 they are very slow and choppy. I saw a thread that suggested I do an uninstall and then reinstall Flash 10.1 which I did, but I'm still having the same problem. Anyone have any suggestions?
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Which G5? Which Video card? How much Free Space on the Hard Drive? How much RAM Memory?
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto *but not including the Serial#*...
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 4
CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.25 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware>Graphics/Displays and report like this...
NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT:
Chipset Model: GeForce 7800GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0092
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 2152.2
Displays:
VGA Display:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Display:
Status: No display connected
Does this information help?
Hardware Overview: Power Mac G4
Model Indentifier: PowerMac3,5
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (2.0)
Processor Speed: 733 MHz
Number of CPUs: 1
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
Memory: 640 MB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.2.3f1
Serial Number (system): XB******KSL
Sales Order Number: M8359LL/A
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0003933F1C26
<Serial Number Edited by Host>
Yes, immensly... but it doesn't help you at all. 😟
A 733MHz just isn't upto toda's bloated Internet Video standards. And likely the Video card is a hold back also.
640 MB of Ram is not enough to do what you want, 10.5 really needs at least 2 GB of RAM if you want to do anything other than just run the OS.
>In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?
Did you try that? I'm guessing there will be lots of them since it has to use the slow Virtual Memory on Disk.
Ok, thanks. So far you've been very informative. I'm not sure what Pageouts are.
Where again do I find the >Memory Tab? Do I click, "About this Mac?"
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes, there'll be 5 tabs at near the bottom quarter...
CPU - System Memory - Disk Activity - Disk Usage - Newtork
Hi-
The 733 MHz QS with 640 MB of RAM and likely an OEM graphics card will not ever produce good results with online flash based video.
The machine barely has enough RAM to run Leopard and is sorely underpowered/under cached in the CPU department with Leopard.
A 933MHz QS with 1.5 GB RAM and Radeon 9800 Pro will play most all YouTube content, but there is still room for improvement.
Bottom line, as BDAqua said, the machine just isn't up to the requirements of the modern net.
Your best bet is to download the video and play it from your hard drive.
Hmmm, I'm having problems finding All Processes. When I click Finder>Application>Utilities>Activity Monitor I don't see where it says All Processes.
"Hmmm, I'm having problems finding All Processes."
It's not an application--it's a setting in Activity Monitor. Look at the upper part of the AM window; more center in Tiger (below) and toward the right edge on Leopard:
In the picture above, right below where it says Activity Monitor at the top, there's a dropdown menu to choose from.
you might have to open Activity Monitor, and then go to the "Window" Menu at the top of your screen and choose Activity Monitor (as sometimes it opens without showing the window BDAqua is referring to).
Anything G4 struggles on YouTube, you can open a youtube stream in VLC (a third party application) and it will play a much better, but this isn't very convenient for general video browsing.
Thanks, completely forgot about the Window Menu might being needed! 🙂
Activity Monitors reports will all be academic.
The machine needs more RAM and more CPU.
Finally! 🙂 I was able to find the System Memory in Activity Monitor. Under the pie it says 640.00 MB. I can see that's not very much. Thanks for all your assistance in helping me determine the problem (lack of RAM). This is my first time using Apple Discussions and it's be a great experience so far.
My next question is: What would be involved in getting more RAM? Is that an easy, inexpensive fix? Could I just go to a store like Best Buy and have them install it? Or is it something I could do myself (keeping in mind, I'm not technically savvy). 😕 Thoughts?
Here's the RAM, you can get it to 1.5GB with thre 512MB stcks, not sure what you have now...
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.cfm?model=139
It's very easy to install RAM, here's the Video on exactly how...
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/powermac_g4_quicksilver_mem/
Could I just go to a store like Best Buy and have them install it?
Buy the RAM at Macsales/OWC and install it yourself.
It's very easy to install and OWC RAM will be right the first time.
Youtube videos on my PowerPC G4
