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<blockquote data-quote="globaldonkey" data-source="post: 470070" data-attributes="member: 49844">Thanks very much for the responses everyone..... this gives me some clues and things to try. And thanks for the re-assurance that DX9 + DX10 is ok. Ruling that out - yes I agree the video drivers look like the culprit.The system specs in my profile are my existing system, so sorry for the confusion there. This a new system I'm messing with. It's the ASUS M3N78-VM, with the Nvidia Chipset (8200 onboard GPU). I updated with the latest chipset drivers from ASUS. Very confusing when you search for this board on ASUSTek, as the latest driver version seems to V15.24 (which I installed), but a week before that the version was 18.12. Go figure.I did run Windows update, and it did think there were later video drivers. I just never trust Microsoft when it comes to drivers <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />So I've got 3 options I think. Trust Microsoft and update with whatever version they want to install (they don't tell you, hence the mis-trust), go to this 18.12 version from ASUS (which seems to be back level) or go to Nvidia and install 8200 drivers from them. Any recommendations which way I should go?...and I'll look into this admin rights stuff too.EDIT: Took a punt and trusted MS. It updated the display driver from 7.15.11.7540 to 7.15.11.8250 and everything is sweet. Enabled aero and EVR, no tearing, all is good. Thanks again guys. This community rocks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="globaldonkey, post: 470070, member: 49844"] Thanks very much for the responses everyone..... this gives me some clues and things to try. And thanks for the re-assurance that DX9 + DX10 is ok. Ruling that out - yes I agree the video drivers look like the culprit. The system specs in my profile are my existing system, so sorry for the confusion there. This a new system I'm messing with. It's the ASUS M3N78-VM, with the Nvidia Chipset (8200 onboard GPU). I updated with the latest chipset drivers from ASUS. Very confusing when you search for this board on ASUSTek, as the latest driver version seems to V15.24 (which I installed), but a week before that the version was 18.12. Go figure. I did run Windows update, and it did think there were later video drivers. I just never trust Microsoft when it comes to drivers ;) So I've got 3 options I think. Trust Microsoft and update with whatever version they want to install (they don't tell you, hence the mis-trust), go to this 18.12 version from ASUS (which seems to be back level) or go to Nvidia and install 8200 drivers from them. Any recommendations which way I should go? ...and I'll look into this admin rights stuff too. EDIT: Took a punt and trusted MS. It updated the display driver from 7.15.11.7540 to 7.15.11.8250 and everything is sweet. Enabled aero and EVR, no tearing, all is good. Thanks again guys. This community rocks! [/QUOTE]

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