<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 May 2013 17:13, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I have had an MSI GT70 laptop since late last year: Core i7-3610QM<br>
CPU, 12 GiBytes RAM, builtin HD4000 video. There are few laptops with<br>
more CPU power than that. When playing back HD video on CPU alone, I<br>
would often get a tearing effect towards the top of the screen. I<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>tearing has nothing to do with CPU struggling to decode the video fast enough<br><br></div><div>With myth and others, too slow means dropped frames; it's very noticeable: nothing like tearing<br>
<br></div><div>Tearing means you had bad video-sync. If you used OpenGL, you need to make sure you enabled it, this is usually done with the drivers itself<br></div></div></div></div>