ES1-512 - Video playback problems since Win10 Anniversary Update

Arrowsky · August 2016

Everything was fine everywhere, but then I updated Windows 10 to the Anniversary Update (principally to access AdBlock on Edge but that's another story).

Now every video - YouTube, VLCs, Netflix, - start freezing after a couple of minutes playing. The sound continue as if nothing but the video is frozen, if I wait or pause it the image will start playing faster to catch up with the sound and sometime there will be some mosaic on the screen.

Anyway, the drivers are supposed to be up-to-date: that's what Windows is telling me. Intel's auto-updater tells me that it's not, there's a more recent driver, but I can't install it because (if I understood it correctly) my computer is "locked" and I can't install anything on it that doesn't come from Acer.

But Acer's drivers are at least a year old from what I gather.

Anyway, does anybody have any clue as to what the hell is going on?

Edit: it seems that moving the mouse a round each couple of seconds/minutes prevents that from happening, but that could be only a red herring. I don't have any screen saver or screen lock set at the moment.