[entourage2111]

It is difficult to tell from your screenshots. Some of the ones that show rendering stats have low rendering times, but the present queue is empty. If you rendering times are low, this could be an issue with network latency, video driver issues or something introduced by a Windows update.

I would try to play a high-bitrate file locally to rule out network latency. I'd also try different types of hardware decoding in LAV Video, unchecking all of the trade quality for performance checkboxes and even backing up my settings.bin and resetting madVR to its defaults from the installation folder.

The worst possible problem would be a present queue that won't fill because of a major Windows update. I only way I know how to fix that is to use image scalers that are not NGU. You could also try that.

Thanks for your reply. 

I have tried to play local files without DSPlayer and they play fine so that rules out the issue with network.

I have also tried to reset settings but the strange thing is that despite the reset, and every setting at default, the problem persists. So this is beyond dsplayer/madvr settings at this stage. 

Surely if it was a windows issue, others would have reported the same problem? I also thought it may be a video driver issue but then why do 1080p files at ultra high play perfectly? It's just the 4K giving me issues and more specifically I think it's HDR in particular. I just don't know where to go next. 


"I'd also try different types of hardware decoding in LAV Video" Could you please elaborate on this? Seems to be the only thing I'm yet to try as I've not played with dsplayer settings. 

Also, just last weekend Saturday I sat through Interstellar just fine in 4k, but the next day Dark Knight just wouldn't stop dropping frames right from the off. And this was without messing with any settings. Seems to be very random.