diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/vo.rst b/DOCS/man/en/vo.rst
index 32c6077cb3..fcaa6b0210 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/vo.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/vo.rst
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ opengl-hq
 
     This is equivalent to:
 
-    | --vo=opengl:lscale=lanczos2:fancy-downscaling:dither-depth=0
+    | --vo=opengl:lscale=lanczos2:fancy-downscaling:dither-depth=0:pbo
 
     Note that some cheaper LCDs do dithering that gravely interferes with
     vo_opengl's dithering. Disabling dithering with ``dither-depth=-1`` helps.
diff --git a/libvo/vo_opengl.c b/libvo/vo_opengl.c
index 111f5dcd11..842b9c49f5 100644
--- a/libvo/vo_opengl.c
+++ b/libvo/vo_opengl.c
@@ -2329,7 +2329,7 @@ static int preinit(struct vo *vo, const char *arg)
         .vo = vo,
         .colorspace = MP_CSP_DETAILS_DEFAULTS,
         .use_npot = 1,
-        .use_pbo = 0,
+        .use_pbo = hq,
         .swap_interval = vo_vsync,
         .osd_color = 0xffffff,
         .dither_depth = hq ? 0 : -1,