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If you want that extra edge when playing games these settings and tweaks may help. Any changes that involve using the Group Policy Editor and Registry Editor will require a reboot for that change to take effect. I may update this page as time goes by, comments are open so feel free to add your comments or thoughts. Disable any unnecessary apps running at startup Use Task Manager or (Settings > Apps > Startup) to disable any unnecessary apps from running at start up Task Manager Settings > Apps > Startup Go through your start up apps and disable anything you do not need to run. In my case I have disabled OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, SteelSeriesGG and iCloud.   Disable Xbox Gamebar Go to Settings > Gaming > Xbox Game Bar and toggle the slider to off. Should you wish to capture your gameplay I would highly recommend OBS . Enabled further graphic optimisation settings Go to System > Display > Graphics > Change Default Graphics Settings and turn on any additi...

I currently have an Intel Arc A770 LE 16GB in my PC, its connected to a Sony XH90 TV with a HDMI 2.1 cable. From day one I have had issues with my audio cutting out, as in I could launch a game or decide to play a video on youtube or amazon prime and discover I have no sound. It seems completely random and happens in Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.  Interestingly it seems I am not alone with the audio issues. https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/ARC-A770-is-killing-my-audio/td-p/1443864  https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/ARC-A770-Audio-Glitches-popping-stuttering/td-p/1448540 Over on the intel community forums a number of users are reporting audio issues and it could be something driver related or worse, the hardware itself.  I have found a fix that sometimes works when I lose sound from my Arc A770 which works in Windows and Ubuntu. I have found sometimes changing the screen refresh rate will make the audio function again. For example, if my refresh rate is 60H...

In a previous post I wrote about using MPV player on Windows with hardware decoding. This is a quick reference post for my recommended minimalist configuration settings in the mpv.conf configuration file. If you have an AMD / Intel graphics device #Default video output set to GPU. Best CPU utilisation in Windows vo=gpu    #Best for AMD GPUs  hwdec=d3d11va    #Prevent MPV closing after playback  keep-open   #Quality Upscale / Downscale filter (will increase GPU load when enabled)  scale=ewa_lanczossharp   If you have an NVIDIA graphics device  MPV for Windows and NVIDIA NVENC decoding #Default video output set to GPU. Best CPU utilisation in Windows vo=gpu #To enable NVDEC use opengl api gpu-api=opengl #Hardware decoder set to NVDEC wont work if above not set to opengl hwdec=nvdec #Prevent MPV closing after playback keep-open #Quality upscale / downscale filter (uncomment below to enable) scale=ewa_lanczossharp

To help explain how this may help you, this is my setup. PlayStation 5 Sony XH90 TV ASUS CU4K30 PC Steelseries Arctis 7P+ Wireless USB headset The PlayStation 5 is connected to the ASUS CU4K30 capture device which is connected to my PC via a USB cable, and TV via a HDMI cable (PS5 passthrough etc). I then use OBS to record my game play to my PC. I do not stream my gameplay to a service such as twitch. My USB headset is connected to my PC. The problem with OBS With OBS typically after 1 hour of recording the audio in the recording will be out of sync with the video. It also seems the severity of the audio desync progressively gets worse over time. For example, in a 3 hour recording the audio is way more out of sync with the video towards the end of the recording. The only time I become aware of the audio sync issue is when playing back the video file. I have seen various ways of attempting to fix this on the internet and they all fail to work ranging from disabling buffering on the capt...

I posted this on the Bandicam forum, copying here as it is useful to know. Feedback / Suggestion - Optimise GPU load HDMI Capture Device window Quote Sat Jun 18, 2022 2:36 am Hello Team Bandicam! Thank you for Bandicam. I currently use Bandicam to record my PS5 gameplay along with an ASUS CU4K30 HDMI capture device, it works well without issue. I do not use the Bandicam HDMI capture window to view and play my PS5, I simply hide the window and switch over to my PS5 HDMI port on my screen. However, out of curiosity I was looking at GPU load when the HDMI capture window is hidden and I feel Bandicam could be better optimised to reduce GPU load when the HDMI capture window is hidden and recording. I will demonstrate my findings with screenshots. In the first screenshot, I have Bandicam open, and task manager shows the GPU load at 0%. In the seco...

If the playback of 4K videos is causing your processor fans to spin themselves to bits or the quality of the playback is an annoyingly inconsistent frame skipping mess, this may help you. The default Windows movie player app and alternatives like VLC and smplayer can play videos with hardware decoding but I frequently have playback issues. In search of something that works and is simple, say hello to  mpv.io  a free, open source, and cross-platform media player. Using MPV to playback 4K videos has provided me with the smoothest viewing experience compared to anything I have ever used but there is one small catch. Out of the box it defaults to software decoding (using your CPU), so you need to configure it to take advantage of hardware decoding, i.e, nvidia NVENC. Go to the options and tick a few boxes? Unfortunately not, you have to configure it by way of a text file named mpv.conf. Realistically all this means is using notepad to type a few characters... or since you are here...

By default SMPlayer is set to 'software decoding' resulting in high CPU utilization and potentially choppy playback depending on your system. Changing the settings to enable 'hardware decoding' will reduce CPU utilization and video playback will be much smoother. Compare the screenshots below, at 46 seconds the same video (playing at full window size) caused 25% CPU utilization versus 2% CPU utilization. SMPlayer Software Decoding SMPlayer Hardware Decoding How to enabled hardware decoding In the preferences > performance, change the 'Hardware decoding' option from 'None' to 'Auto'. Then click 'OK'. You have now enabled 'hardware decoding' in SMPlayer. If you wish to confirm this, simply compare your CPU utilization before and after.