Vertical Sync in AVS.

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I believe the title is self-explainitory. Torn video is bothersome. I like the pretty visualizations... THEY'RE PRETTY! But I hate the frame tearing... IT BOTHERS ME! Slightly OCD, perhaps, but hey, we want (or at least I want) to be able to enable vertical sync. Now, I believe that the visualizations are dependent on the refresh for how fast you see it moving, so what I suggest is a V-sync factor mode. What this means is that you can choose an even multipler for V-sync to limit it. AVS would detect what would be the optimal multiplier until it can't possibly pump out more frames for that visualization in non-V-sync mode. At that point, it rounds down to the nearest multiple of the monitor vertical refresh rate and locks that framerate. This should provide much smoother video. I know there is page flipping in fullscreen, but when I overlay the video on my desktop, I get the video tearing. If this could be appended to the normal display mode, it would be much appreciate by more people than just myself, I'm sure. This V-sync factorization that I mentioned could perhaps also be implemented into the fullscreen mode as well. With graphic processors out there like the Nvidia G70 and ATi R600, their power should be harnessed to the best of their ability. Just remember to cap the CPU time as we don't want it to start acting like it's realtime and consume all process time. (Cap it to 50%, or allow it to be adjustable.)
Okay, so yeah, so ends my ramble.

[mikm]

A) Try AVS Editor --> Display
Uncheck "pixel doubling", check "wait for retrace". You can also manually slow it down.

B) The nature of AVS makes hardware-acceleration impossible.