Comments on: Help me test! Flash VSync and Screen Tearing.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:24:19 +0000

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Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 60.2
Rendered Frames : 602
Flash Player :MAC 10,1,53,64
Debug :false
OS : Mac OS 10.5.8
It did show tearing : yes
My browser : Safari 5.0

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Wmode : Direct
FPS : 49.7
Rendered Frames : 498
Flash Player :MAC 10,1,53,64
Debug :false
OS : Mac OS 10.5.8
It did show tearing : no
My browser : Safari 5.0

Copy and past this to my comments :
Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 60.1
Rendered Frames : 602
Flash Player :MAC 10,1,53,64
Debug :false
OS : Mac OS 10.5.8
It did show tearing : no
My browser : Google Chrome 5.0.375.86

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Wmode : Direct
FPS : 59.9
Rendered Frames : 600
Flash Player :MAC 10,1,53,64
Debug :false
OS : Mac OS 10.5.8
It did show tearing : no
My browser : Google Chrome 5.0.375.86

Copy and past this to my comments :
Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 59.9
Rendered Frames : 600
Flash Player :MAC 10,1,53,64
Debug :false
OS : Mac OS 10.5.8
It did show tearing : yes
My browser : Firefox 3.6.3

Copy and past this to my comments :
Wmode : Direct
FPS : 42.5
Rendered Frames : 426
Flash Player :MAC 10,1,53,64
Debug :false
OS : Mac OS 10.5.8
It did show tearing : no
My browser : Firefox 3.6.3

By: J

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:38:19 +0000

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 52.5
Rendered Frames : 525
Flash Player :MAC 10,1,53,64
Debug :false
OS : Mac OS 10.5.8
It did show tearing : Yep
My browser : Firefox 3.6.2

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 43.5
Rendered Frames : 435
Flash Player :MAC 10,1,53,64
Debug :false
OS : Mac OS 10.5.8
It did show tearing : no
My browser : Firefox 3.6.2

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 59.7
Rendered Frames : 598
Flash Player :MAC 10,1,53,64
Debug :false
OS : Mac OS 10.5.8
It did show tearing : Yep
My browser : Safari 5.0 (5533.16)

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 44.8
Rendered Frames : 448
Flash Player :MAC 10,1,53,64
Debug :false
OS : Mac OS 10.5.8
It did show tearing : No
My browser : Safari 5.0 (5533.16)

Hope that helps

By: jorge

jorge — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:40:16 +0000

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 60.0
Rendered Frames : 601
Flash Player :WIN 10,0,45,2
Debug :false
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : YES
My browser : google chrome 5.0.375.55

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 59.6
Rendered Frames : 596
Flash Player :WIN 10,0,45,2
Debug :false
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : NO
My browser : google chrome 5.0.375.55

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 62.4
Rendered Frames : 624
Flash Player :WIN 10,0,45,2
Debug :false
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : YES
My browser : Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702IC

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 59.7
Rendered Frames : 597
Flash Player :WIN 10,0,45,2
Debug :false
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : NO
My browser : Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702IC

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 59.9
Rendered Frames : 600
Flash Player :WIN 10,0,45,2
Debug :false
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : YES
My browser : Firefox 3.5.9

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 58.7
Rendered Frames : 587
Flash Player :WIN 10,0,45,2
Debug :false
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : NO
My browser : Firefox 3.5.9

By: copet80

copet80 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:56:16 +0000

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 60.2
Rendered Frames : 602
Flash Player :WIN 10,0,45,2
Debug :true
OS : Windows XP 64
It did show tearing : YES
My browser : Chrome 5.0.375.55

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 57.4
Rendered Frames : 575
Flash Player :WIN 10,0,45,2
Debug :true
OS : Windows XP 64
It did show tearing : NO
My browser : Chrome 5.0.375.55

By: ben

ben — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:07:10 +0000

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 59.6
Rendered Frames : 597
Flash Player :WIN 10,1,52,14
Debug :false
OS : Windows 7
It did show tearing : NO ( tiny bit on the top 5%)
My browser : google chrome 5.0.375.55

By: XabierDellugo

XabierDellugo — Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:22 +0000

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 36.4
Rendered Frames : 374
Flash Player :WIN 10,1,53,55
Debug :false
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : YES
My browser : Chrome 4.1.249.1064

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 26.4
Rendered Frames : 275
Flash Player :WIN 10,1,53,55
Debug :false
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : No
My browser : Chrome 4.1.249.1064

By: st4r

st4r — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:06:57 +0000

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 35.1
Rendered Frames : 352
Flash Player :LNX 10,0,45,2
Debug :false
OS : Linux 2.6.33-zen2
It did show tearing : [YES]
My browser : [Chromium 5.0.375.38 64bit]

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 60.1
Rendered Frames : 601
Flash Player :LNX 10,0,45,2
Debug :false
OS : Linux 2.6.33-zen2
It did show tearing : [YES]
My browser : [Chromium 5.0.375.38 64bit]

Some notes: Screen tears with compositing On & Off. still tearing with nvidia vsync and kde vsync on. noticibly worse with vsync turned off in either of them, or with compositing off. (Kde 4.4.3 Gentoo x86_64 nvidia 8600GT)

Vsync is a huge issue for Linux right now. the only way to get flash to vsync is if it uses direct OpenGL I believe, because general vsync for 2D or composited stuff just isn’t possible. “Making this work requires changes to Xorg, mesa, every graphics driver, and every compositor.” <- quoted by an Ubuntu developer.

By: st4r

st4r — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:57:40 +0000

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 59.6
Rendered Frames : 596
Flash Player :LNX 10,0,45,2
Debug :false
OS : Linux 2.6.33-zen2
It did show tearing : [YES]
My browser : [Arora 0.10.2]

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 60.1
Rendered Frames : 602
Flash Player :LNX 10,0,45,2
Debug :false
OS : Linux 2.6.33-zen2
It did show tearing : [YES]
My browser : [Arora 0.10.2]

By: st4r

st4r — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:50:15 +0000

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 59.2
Rendered Frames : 592
Flash Player :LNX 10,1,53,38
Debug :false
OS : Linux 2.6.33-zen2
It did show tearing : [NO]
My browser : [Firefox 3.5.6 32bit]

Copy and past this to my comments :
Wmode : Direct
FPS : 59.0
Rendered Frames : 590
Flash Player :LNX 10,1,53,38
Debug :false
OS : Linux 2.6.33-zen2
It did show tearing : [only a little bit. beginning of test seemed to lag all black]
My browser : [Firefox 3.5.6 32bit]

some other notes: I tested your tests with the stable 10.0 flash on google chrome 64bit (linux) and got HORRIBLE tearing, but with Flash 10.1 RC4 on Firefox 32bit, the tearing was nonexistant except for a few frames on the final test.

however, some video on Hulu.com still tear once in awhile.

By: Vivek Lakhanpal

Vivek Lakhanpal — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:24:16 +0000

Sorry last comment has both for opaqe
Wmode : Direct
FPS : 42.1
Rendered Frames : 421
Flash Player :WIN 10,1,53,38
Debug :true
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : No
My browser : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

By: Vivek Lakhanpal

Vivek Lakhanpal — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:22:50 +0000

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 59.2
Rendered Frames : 592
Flash Player :WIN 10,1,53,38
Debug :true
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : Yes
My browser : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
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Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 59.2
Rendered Frames : 592
Flash Player :WIN 10,1,53,38
Debug :true
OS : Windows XP
It did show tearing : No
My browser : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

By: cnuuja

cnuuja — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:36:37 +0000

If you are using Vista/Win7, use an Aero windows theme. With Aero, the windows manager will coordinate all updates from all apps to the screen. You should not see any tearing in this mode.

By: Cybah

Cybah — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:24:47 +0000

Latest beta Flash Player…

Wmode : Opaque
FPS : 59.0
Rendered Frames : 590
Flash Player :WIN 10,1,53,38
Debug :false
OS : Windows Vista
It did show tearing : yes
My browser : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Wmode : Direct
FPS : 55.7
Rendered Frames : 557
Flash Player :WIN 10,1,53,38
Debug :false
OS : Windows Vista
It did show tearing : no
My browser : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

By: Alyssa Thompson

Alyssa Thompson — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:17:31 +0000

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By: Niamh Carter

Niamh Carter — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:04:28 +0000

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