NVIDIA Graphics card inaction during editing/rendering in PD8

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Kent105

Newbie Joined: Apr 12, 2010 19:19 Messages: 10 Offline

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Jun 09, 2012 21:42

Hi
I recently purchased a new computer which has a Nvidia GE Force GT 540m graphics card.

During editing/rendering there appears to be no involvement of this card...Norton frequently pops up to advise CPU usage is high.

Edit/Preferences indicates GPU acceleration is enabled for NVIDIA CUDA Technology.

I am having no problems with PD8 but was anticipating some improved performance.

Can anyone explain how this works(or doesn't work)?

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jun 10, 2012 19:58

You must have the correct video driver installed for the Hardware Acceleration to work in Powerdirector 8.
And you must enable the Hardware acceleration in Powerdirector 8 Preferences.

Nvidia Driver search page:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

The Hardware Acceleration setting in Powerdirector 8 In the edit window, Press Alt+C, Editing Tab.
At to bottom of window, GPU Acceleration.
Two check boxes if the Video card and driver supports hardware acceleration.

Otherwise they are grayed out.

Can anyone explain how this works(or doesn't work)?

CUDA usually only works in Produce or maybe Create Disk.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Jun 10. 2012 20:01

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

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