The M$ player was never good, I have always used MPC-HT and never needed the k-lite codec packs on Win 10, Both my HiBookPro and Hi12 were always silky smooth with any content so the Hi13 should be the same. VLC is also good but the GUI is a disaster when you come out of full-screen (windows player loves to go off screen) that they may never fix. Make sure you are running DShow video at the default EVR and set the VMR9 renderless for realmedia and quicktime in the output section. In the Internal filters section go to video decoder and set HW accl to DXVA2 (copy-back) and enabled all of the resolution and codec in HW accl options.