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    Screen tearing during video playback

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by hellrazor, Jun 21, 2012.

  1. hellrazor

    hellrazor Notebook Geek

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    Hi all
    I posted about my problem over in the sager and Cleo forum but didn't really get anywhere.
    After a bit of research I think that the problem I'm getting is screen tearing, it only happens when watching avi mpegs etc and DVDs I haven't tested with blu rays yet but I'm assuming it will be the same. But when playing games I haven't had a problem yet. I have tried enabling vertical sync but no glory, tried lowering refresh rate to 59 hz no good either.
    And if you are reading my post in the other forum, The screen will tear on the Bravia as well if I change it to the primary display.
    Anyone else had this problem? Any other fixes?
     
    hellrazor, Jun 21, 2012
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Do you already have Aero enabled? try keep only one screen enabled at a time. Also, what programs are you using to play the videos?
     
    namaiki, Jun 21, 2012
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  3. hellrazor

    hellrazor Notebook Geek

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    Aero is enabled no difference there, I'm using windows media player and cyberlink power DVD same thing with both.
     
    hellrazor, Jun 21, 2012
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  4. Chevy787

    Chevy787 Notebook Enthusiast

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    try using CCCP
    using that, start a tearing test (crtl+ t) while playing a video and see what happens.
    Right click and go to rendering settings> Vsync options
    play around with them till the tearing goes away
     
    Chevy787, Jun 22, 2012
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  5. jaug1337

    jaug1337 de_dust2

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    Try SPlayer or VLC
    - if it still happens do a clean GPU driver install, should fix it ;)
     
    jaug1337, Jun 22, 2012
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  6. Chevy787

    Chevy787 Notebook Enthusiast

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    An alternative to my other method would be to try and use Mplayer2
    Index of /
    It has 10 bit support :D
     
    Chevy787, Jun 22, 2012
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