(SOLVED) YouTube slow/freezing/lagging/unresponsive in steam overlay web browser in CS:GO
Hey guys!

I've suddenly come across an issue with YouTube in the steam overlay web browser in CS:GO being stuttering and slow. The video I am playing is also dropping straight down to 480p quality. I can turn the quality up to 1080p again though. However the page is laggy, slow and inconsistently responding. I have 1000 Mbit/s up- and download speed so my internet is no issue there. When I am browsing YouTube either on the home page or in a video, the site is really slow. When I am clicking my mouse on the video it takes several seconds before it responds, mouse scrolling as well. Also when the video plays the image speeds up sometimes and then slows down sometimes. The sound is fine but the image on the video is way after the sound and as I mentioned, laggy and freezing. Browsing normally is working just fine though. It's only the YouTube website. Tried different videos. On all the videos I'm experiencing this. Not having this issue in any other web browser locally on my PC.

These are the solutions I have tried so far that did not fix the issue:

- Clearing Steam browser cache and cookies
- Clearing Download cache
- Enabling Automatically Detect Settings and Disabling LAN settings
- Repair Steam Directory
- Verifying integrity of game files
- Repair Library Folder
- Run Steam as Administrator
- Install the beta client
- Deleting folder "htmlcache" C:\Users\AppData\Local\Steam\htmlcache
- Deleting folder "appcache" C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\appcache\
- Deleting file "localconfig.vdf" C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\#########\config
- Changing download region
- Re-new IP and flush DNS
- Allow Steam through firewall

Never had this issue before. The incident started happening a couple of days ago. Anyone else experiencing this problem?
Any other solutions to this problem?

In advance, thanks!
Last edited by President Trump; Sep 22, 2019 @ 4:58pm
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Jaunitta 🌸 Sep 21, 2019 @ 10:46pm 
No I havent but you could delete Steam Downloads cache usualy fixes video playback issues.
I delete the web cacahe first then Steam dowloads cache last as it reboots steam and a log in is required.
President Trump Sep 21, 2019 @ 11:18pm 
I have already tried deleting the steam downloads cache and deleting the web cache as well. Did not fix the issue unfortunately. Any other advise?
Last edited by President Trump; Sep 21, 2019 @ 11:59pm
Jaunitta 🌸 Sep 22, 2019 @ 1:42am 
Update Chrome open the bars top right scroll down to help then slide out click on the About Google Chrome, if there is an update it install.
Edit
delete Chrome history for all time.
Last edited by Jaunitta 🌸; Sep 22, 2019 @ 1:44am
President Trump Sep 22, 2019 @ 9:52am 
Found the solution myself after some googling.
It was way more simple than I thought though haha

Here is the solution:

Re-install Steam

This will NOT uninstall your games.

Delete everything within your Steam folder except for Steam.exe and the steamapps folder.

To save your local screenshots and any local save files, keep the userdata folder. You can also keep the skins folder if you don't want to re-download custom skins.

Now launch Steam and wait for it to reinstall.

If your games do not appear as installed in your library when Steam is fully re-installed and updated, simply click on the install button for each game, choose the drive that you have your games on and Steam will recognize your existing game files.

NB: Instead of deleting the files you can optionally cut them out of the Steam folder and save them somewhere else meanwhile if you are wary.

NB: If you were opted into the Steam Beta Client you will need to re-opt into it after the re-install.

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Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1082209554
Last edited by President Trump; Sep 22, 2019 @ 10:30am
Jeff Jan 17, 2021 @ 11:07am 
Same since some weeks i have heacy laggs on Youtube viedeos on Steam Overlay. 10 years no Problems but now ...
nicossj Jan 17, 2021 @ 11:18am 
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Iceira Jan 17, 2021 @ 11:33am 
Originally posted by Jeff Talley:
Same since some weeks i have heacy laggs on Youtube viedeos on Steam Overlay. 10 years no Problems but now ...

Are you telling us, there has been no change sense last 10 years in steam, if you dont get this now you never will, turn off all settings to reduce steam to weak or reduce option and live with ugly little crappy steam.

Call it steam light setup, if that get you into steam settings, what we try to tell steam user here.
we are not allow to say things like this with harder words because of steam policy, but its every steam own job to know and reduce "Steam Resource" it keep take more and use more and more options that might not be the best for middle range pc or low-end pc,
dont feel offender , the minute you take pc out of shop its already go downwards to mid-range 2 years later you might not top ace pc. 4 years later you are NOT top ace pc.

This is game requirements , steam is gettting heavyer, any can confirm that. and its all the new things that cause it.

Op has solve nothing this is know as last option and nothing new.
call it reset all and hope you get steam back, until steam doing it again.

let me see if you get it with harder words , your pc and GPU have issue with it this is why you crappy pc cant handle it, sure can it be GPU driver that dont work or all the things steam do now.
again we over in steam overlay web browser while game is up and running, and you lag is sign of pc cant handle it. ( this is hard words , dont OC dont have things that cause bottleneck typical a AMD issue with many things ongoing this is old news, ) only crappy intel with no driver update and outdate GPU that barely have game requirements have trouble here.

and we all know very well on what happend here, then windows have a game up and running this is known as windows Limitation try avoid game lag while doing other things.
so many cant DL and play game sametime sense we upgrade to 1GB, thats almost full speed at haddisk while you play game sametime forget it. only Raid user have what it takes or write to steam lib harddisk not use by current game or OS,

if you dont get this to bad for you, talk with a tech person he might explan this better to you.
Last edited by Iceira; Jan 17, 2021 @ 11:54am
Globster Feb 16, 2021 @ 3:54am 
Originally posted by President Trump:
...the solution: Re-install Steam...
I tried your solution, plus some of the solutions in the OP, but YT continues lagging even in 144p for me in-game. :k8sad:
Originally posted by MakinBacon:
It used to work. Many moons ago. Just browsing the web sucks.
Are websites and web browsers slower for you than they used to be, and you haven't changed any hardware? It might be time for an upgrade.
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Date Posted: Sep 21, 2019 @ 7:50pm
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