2008-07-08, 03:24
Hi there,
I've recently built a little HTPC box running XBMC, but I'm having problems with tearing at higher resolutions.
I'm running an Athlon 4850e and 2gb RAM in a Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H board, using the integrated graphics (which is supposedly a Radeon 3200).
It's running a fully patched Hardy install (with the latest ATI driver from EnvyNG), and a fresh install of XBMC from today's SVN (2008/07/07). Compiz is disabled.
I'm running at 1920x1080 at 50Hz via HDMI (50Hz is necessary to keep my TV happy, it seems), although I've also tested at 60Hz via VGA too to no avail. I'm getting rather nasty tearing with anything 720p or above, even with vertical sync enabled in XBMC.
Anyone got any ideas how I can fix that?
As a sidenote, I'm not having much luck with 1080p content, lots and lots of dropped frames, stuttery audio, etc. The "killa sampla" is pretty much unplayable. If anyone knows of any magic buttons I can press to speed that up, I'd be most grateful (although I'm beginning to think I just don't have the CPU power for it, although neither of my CPU cores hit 100%, so maybe there's something else going on there).
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
I've recently built a little HTPC box running XBMC, but I'm having problems with tearing at higher resolutions.
I'm running an Athlon 4850e and 2gb RAM in a Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H board, using the integrated graphics (which is supposedly a Radeon 3200).
It's running a fully patched Hardy install (with the latest ATI driver from EnvyNG), and a fresh install of XBMC from today's SVN (2008/07/07). Compiz is disabled.
I'm running at 1920x1080 at 50Hz via HDMI (50Hz is necessary to keep my TV happy, it seems), although I've also tested at 60Hz via VGA too to no avail. I'm getting rather nasty tearing with anything 720p or above, even with vertical sync enabled in XBMC.
Anyone got any ideas how I can fix that?
As a sidenote, I'm not having much luck with 1080p content, lots and lots of dropped frames, stuttery audio, etc. The "killa sampla" is pretty much unplayable. If anyone knows of any magic buttons I can press to speed that up, I'd be most grateful (although I'm beginning to think I just don't have the CPU power for it, although neither of my CPU cores hit 100%, so maybe there's something else going on there).
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!