Ok, now I need to fix youtbe for realz.

[Prussian to the Iron]

So youtube is consistently bugging out and becoming completely unwatchable every few minutes, and lasts like this until I reboot my computer. why is it doing this? and how can i stop it?

[Togakure]

Moved to Hardware and Software. Some smart dudes in there who might be able to help you sort things out.

[LeftEyeNine]

I say your internet cache is lowered somehow. Rebooting which deletes the cache content so that space is freed explains something, I think.

I'd try fiddling with Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager (google it, you'll get a webpage which affects your Flash Player settings) as well as increasing the cache level from the options panel of the browser you're using.

[Prussian to the Iron]

heres my specific issue. low quality and a watermark from the video converter, but here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwShNj6amEw

[Lemur]

Just watched your video of your video problems. My first suspect is your video drivers. Try uninstalling them and reinstalling the latest version. My thinking is as follows: Most modern video chipsets do acceleration of Flash, and YouTube is Flash-based (the videos are actually contained in .flv files, but I dunno if we need to get into that).

So really, a two parter: Go to Control Panels/Add or Remove Programs (or in Win7 Uninstall a Program) and get rid of your Flash player. Then re-install Flash from here (http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html).

Next up, identify your video chipset. If you don't know how to do that, let us know. Then grab the absolute minty-freshest version of the chipset drivers and re-install.

This should fix your problem.

[Prussian to the Iron]

the second part i really need help with. ill do the first part now.

[miotas]

To find the name of your graphics card:

XP:
Start -> Run
Type: dxdiag
Press Enter

Win7:
Start
Type: dxdiag
Press Enter

Then click the "Display" Tab and you should see the name there.

[Prussian to the Iron]

okay i found the driver, but it wont download.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/confirmation.php?url=/Windows/266.58/266.58_notebook_winvista_win7_32bit_international_whql.exe&lang=us&type=GeForce%20M

is the page its at, i click the agree and continue, and then it does nothing.

[miotas]

Works for me. What browser are you using?

You may need to click on a "security bar" that appears at the top of the page to allow the download. You could also try right clicking the link and selecting "save target as" or "save link as"

[Prussian to the Iron]

there is no security bar. using firefox.

[miotas]

Did you try right click and save as?

[Prussian to the Iron]

yah. now i tried to install and it says im missing a couple programs. too tired to do it now, but ill check them out later.

[Stazi]

Try new HTML5 version of youtube. It uses different player so maybe...
https://www.youtube.com/html5