Screen tearing during video playback, Radeon HD 5670

[Red Hawk]

Just wondering if anyone here at Anandtech knows of a solution to this.

My brothers' computer gets near-constant screen tearing when playing videos. It does this for Flash videos and Netflix Instant, which uses Microsoft Silverlight. I can't figure out how to get rid of this. It does it with the 11.3 drivers and the 11.6 drivers (I saw no point in updating to 11.7 since no fixes were listed) and when set to 60 hz and 75 hertz refresh rates. Is there any way to force v-sync to fix this, or other solutions?

My brothers' PC has Windows XP, Radeon HD 5670, and a 1440x900 monitor connected to the graphics card by VGA.

 

[toyota]

is aero turned off? that's the only way I can get the kind of tearing you are talking about.

 

[Red Hawk]

It's XP, no Aero.

 

[toyota]

lol, yeah I forget XP was pre aero. I got that tearing on my old netbook that had XP and as for as I know there is nothing you can do about.

 

[waffleironhead]

Does the tearing still happen with the video in full screen? I vaguely remember this happaning to me in xp with videos in windowed mode and the only solution was to full screen them.

 

[Red Hawk]

Yes, it happens in full-screen.