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FIX: Audio renderer errors on YouTube when loading videos
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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ManyWindows 10users reported encountering an issue withYoutubemaking videos unable to load.
Error messageAudio Renderererror, Please restart your computerleaves users frustrated, not allowing access to videos.
This frequenterrorseems to be caused by various reasons, some of which:
In order to fix this issue, we came up with a series of fixes that are worth trying out.
How do I fix Youtube audio render errors?
1. Run the troubleshooter
2. Try out a different browser
If you try all of the troubleshooting steps listed above and below and notice that things still don’t work, then maybe replacing your browser is your only solution.
Since everything began with you trying to watch YouTube, we recommend a browser that is designed for watching YouTube and streaming content, and that browser is called Opera.
This lightweight browser is based oof of the Chromium engine, and it has all the tools that make it the perfect choice for watching YouTube.
For example, the adblocker will help with those pesky YouTube ads from in-between videos, and the built-in VPN will let you access region-locked content as well.
The browser is light and highly customizable. It has a light/dark switch that may be useful and improve your watching experience even more.
Opera
3. Disable and enable back your audio adapters
4. Rollback your audio driver
5. Synchronize the Windows Sound driver and the ASIO drivers’ frequencies
Alternatively, even though it’s not always the case, but thebrowsermight be the problem. That’s why we would suggest switching to abrowserthat doesn’t have any issues whatsoever with media streaming, especiallyYouTube. We are talking aboutUR Browser.
We hope that our solutions to fixYoutube‘s video render issue were of help for you. Leave us a comment in the comment section below if this article helped you fix theerrormessage.
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Madalina Dinita
Networking & Security Specialist
Madalina has been a Windows fan ever since she got her hands on her first Windows XP computer.
She is interested in all things technology, especially emerging technologies – AI and DNA computing in particular.
Prior to joining the WindowsReport team, she worked in the corporate world for a number of years.
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Madalina Dinita
Networking & Security Specialist
Madalina is a Windows fan since forever, especially interested in AI, emerging technologies, privacy, and security.
