[mkohman]

I notice you have 'send HDR metadata to the display' Off.  How are you playing an HDR title?  It should look faded with it off like that instead of bright with lots of color.  Are you testing high quality 1:1 files with at least 109 mbps bit rate as well as low end titles like 720's that start making high demand on the GPU?  What about 4k 60Hz playback?  How about frame packed 3D?  If you can play assortment of well rounded title selections, this sounds promising. 

I check the 1st item in trade quality for performance tab for subs and the 2nd DXVA when doing native to let the GPU do the work instead of CPU resources via madVR.  Also, don't you want to put the subs below the video instead of in the video?  Preference.  You get better control/performance using separate profiles instead of using the same scaling algo's for all media, 460p, 720p, 1080p and 2160p if you find you run into titles that fail and need to start lowering settings.  Same with Processing fwiw.  Lastly, what does the detect hard coded black bars do for you?

Thank you for your kind reply. The settings posted is from a AVS forum member who reccomended these settings and I was just following what he did.. I will also try what you suggested.. Thanks.

With regards to 3D playback on my very cheap AMD 6450 I had no issues whatsoever . I am not saying I have issues on this card just don't know how I need to enable it.. The Control Panel for the GPU has completely changed from what I am used to.. @mclingo can you please assist me with this and also are there any reccomended settings that I should enable or disable in the amd catalyst control center .. Thank you