2012-02-18, 15:13
voip-ninja Wrote: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.
GreenEyez Wrote:@voip-ninja - If you`re looking for 0 dropped frames without any type of Re-syncronization like the built in XBMC one or Re-Clock, the only solution i know that can do it is and Nvidia GPU with a custom resolution/refresh rate, that drops 1 frame every 7 hours (which basically means 0 dropped frames during a movie which can take up to 4 hours max). By default Nvidia drops one frame every 5 minutes, Ati once every 7 minutes (they do 29.977 if i recall correctly from my Zacate) and Intel every 40 seconds (unless they improved something in their drivers recently, i have no clue about these improvements since my Intel GPU/mobo only arrives on Monday). These values are without any type of re-syncronization like ReClock & co.
The newest Intel drivers have a dropped frame about once every 5 minutes with is hardly noticeable if at all.
Intel is only 0.003 off now. Very very good. The 40 second figure is no longer accurate.
1/(23.976-23.97251) sec = 4.78 min