Until recently I was one of those using Plex Media Player still, because I could not get Plex HTPC to cooperate. Specifically, I had a problem with some kind of dropped frames or similar hitches… a glitch every few seconds, which made things unwatchable. This was a problem even with refresh rate swi…

It is likely the Vertical sync which is the key setting among those you customized. Is this actually the case for you? In my case I had to change the Power management mode to Prefer Maximum Performance or it would occasionally drop audio whether passthrough was used or not ( HTPC Tips and Tricks - …

Vsync is one that I looked at more carefully because I know how important it is. What I found was that with the settings as shown but Vsync off, I had smooth pans with tearing in parts of the image. I could see the original hitching problem I was chasing had been corrected even as the image was unwa…

Ah yes, turning off vsync will induce tearing. Maybe it’s the power management or the max frame setting settings then. BTW, with my above comment about audio drops, that only occurred on the highest quality preset and not on the lower ones.

How I fixed choppy playback in Plex HTPC for Windows (Nvidia GPU)

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How I fixed choppy playback in Plex HTPC for Windows (Nvidia GPU)

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