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Using a pointer makes sense.
But then that means that virtually all explanations of tearing (including the one from this forum that I've seen linked all over the place) are wrong. The buffer swap is practically instantaneous and the monitor's poll is what actually causes tearing?
Why don't we...
I've read a number of explanations of why screen tearing happens and I think I understand it fairly well: the video card is copying from the back buffer to the front buffer and the monitor polls the front buffer while this copying operation is only partially completed (i.e., the tearing is an...
I should have said 8.1 - and it was a fresh install, with a fresh UEFI install.
As for the DDL, it definitely shouldn't take 100-200ms. Even ignoring what it should do, it's very definitely passing the DDL in WMP, so it's certainly not some fundamental problem of latency.
I'm facing a very strange delay of about 100-200ms.
I picked up a set of Astro A50 headphones a few weeks ago and went out and bought a Xonar DX sound card upon the recommendation of a number of posts in their forums and elsewhere to take advantage of the Dolby Digital Live on the card. After...