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DingDong2
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Laggy video, screen tearing and high cpu usage when playing videos?

Guest: Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit)
Host: Windows 10 (latest - 64-bit)
Workstation Player: 16.2.4 build-20089737

Don't really recall if this started after workstation player update since I don't watch videos often in the guest, but I do have old videos saved there. When I play a video in any player/browser e.g. windows media player, vlc, chrome etc cpu usage goes to 90+%, there is tearing in video frames and lagging as well.

VM is set to use 2 CPU cores, has 4GB memory allocation and 3D acceleration is enabled. Installed latest version of VM Tools as well, but no improvement. 

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