2012-02-17, 18:48
DDDamian Wrote:@meridius - I haven't done a hard comparison, but I don't see the video frame drops as drastically as some report if I allow them to occur - and conclude that there's some inter-frame smoothing being done between output frame flips by the GPU. The only other explanation I can think of is this enables better regulated clock timing for video frames, but that would lead to audio disruptions. Wish I had a hard answer - can only draw from observation that I simply don't visually see frame drops if I slave to the audio clock.
@voip-ninja - great news on both fronts. You seem to be quite sensitive to the video drops. Perhaps the question above by Meridius is something you can experiment with once your new card arrives.
It's pretty exciting where all this is heading
Okay, so i have a little bit of feedback on these new Intel drivers. I really don't know what people at AVS are smoking, but I am seeing no real improvement in frame-sync performance with these drivers vs. the last set of drivers that came out about six months ago. I am still seeing a moderate amount of clock drift and when I don't use the "sync to display" option I am still taking a couple of frame drops every 7 minutes or so.
Also, they still have not improved or fixed their performance under DXVA, it still macro blocks, so it's still pretty much unusable.
I will give the HD6450 a shot and see how I like that, in comparison to the Intel solution. It's unfortunate, because I was really hoping to avoid going with an off-board video solution, but if there's enough of an improvement, then it will be worth it to go through the hassle of setting it up.