Making it work right

[Stormy Fairweather]

Recently I decided to try and get rid of that extrememly annoying tear that forcing v-sync on did not seem to address.

Updated my drivers (new catalyst CC for my radeon 5450), and got rid of the leftover ATI tools from my old card. Getting a worse image, I set VLC to its defaults. Now, not only do I still have the same screen tearing, only worse, I also get aliasing so bad that American Dad (for example) almost looks like an 8-bit production, and now I also have microstutters. The sound works fine, but the video is unwatchable.

Running windows 7 64, 22' LCD monitor. What would be the best settings to use to eliminate these three behaviors? I have done alot of troubleshooting, but I am beyond frustrated at this point... can barely even type straight.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

As you describe, it's basically a driver problem. The VLC forum people cannot fix that.

You can select another video output method to improve the picture quality, but it probably won't fix tearing (or not both at the same time).