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<blockquote data-quote="KevL" data-source="post: 416010" data-attributes="member: 11798">PretorianoMany thanks for the links.I have installed the sonique visualisations and changed the milkdrop files to version 2.1.I now find that milkdrop works without crashing the MP app on startup. This is even with the milk2.ini file in C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\plugins\plugins. So if milk2.ini is supposed to be in this dir also then I suppose that is an improvement.However....milkdrop is still running in fake fullscreen mode (i.e. it is not switching resolution to what is specified in the MP MD config). I have followed your advice of NOT telling MD to start in fullscreen mode.What is interesting - following Bassfan's advice to check that MD runs properly under winamp.exe - is that If I tell milkdrop to run in full screen mode at 1920x1080p 50Hz with 25fps target in winamp then the viz has no sign of tearing and even at this high screen res the viz is fluid and smooth. Maybe a tad slower than at lower res but still very fine.The reason I originally started to try to get MD to run at lower res in MP is that in MP when running at 1920x1080p there is extensive tearing. I suspected that if I can get MD to run at lower res then tearing would not happen.Not sure why there would be a difference. Dont really know how this stuff works but I have checked the behaviour and am sure that is what my system is doing.Given MD in winamp works perfectly it might be that MP needs further tweaking.Kev</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KevL, post: 416010, member: 11798"] Pretoriano Many thanks for the links. I have installed the sonique visualisations and changed the milkdrop files to version 2.1. I now find that milkdrop works without crashing the MP app on startup. This is even with the milk2.ini file in C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\plugins\plugins. So if milk2.ini is supposed to be in this dir also then I suppose that is an improvement. However.... milkdrop is still running in fake fullscreen mode (i.e. it is not switching resolution to what is specified in the MP MD config). I have followed your advice of NOT telling MD to start in fullscreen mode. What is interesting - following Bassfan's advice to check that MD runs properly under winamp.exe - is that If I tell milkdrop to run in full screen mode at 1920x1080p 50Hz with 25fps target in winamp then the viz has no sign of tearing and even at this high screen res the viz is fluid and smooth. Maybe a tad slower than at lower res but still very fine. The reason I originally started to try to get MD to run at lower res in MP is that in MP when running at 1920x1080p there is extensive tearing. I suspected that if I can get MD to run at lower res then tearing would not happen. Not sure why there would be a difference. Dont really know how this stuff works but I have checked the behaviour and am sure that is what my system is doing. Given MD in winamp works perfectly it might be that MP needs further tweaking. Kev [/QUOTE]

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