Hi Toastman,

See my post where different graphics drivers appeared to solve my problem of rendering. Specifically I loaded Nvidia driver 296.10.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/23864.page

Good luck please report back if it solves your problem. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

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That's a bummer Toastman. Just one thing that I was told by a computer geek friend of mine was when changing drivers or for that matter making any system changes was to make sure you do a cold boot after you make the change...that is shutting the computer down not just doing a re-start. This ensures that any left over instructions are not floating around to screw things up.

I know the Nvidia drivers allow you to install new drivers over the top of old ones. You might also want to try uninstalling the old drivers, cold boot, then install the new new Nvidia drivers. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

Hi Toastman and Robert,

Just two cents worth here, of no help at all.

I contacted CL Tech Support with this issue well over a year ago, and that led to 15 email exchanges between CL and myself. Bottom line, it was fruitless to continue with the exchanges, after the third time (in a row), that I was asked to send them the same screen shot that I had already sent twice. CL Support didn’t appear (at the time), to be familiar with what the Render Preview option was, or how it was supposed to work.

It was also speculated that it was only an issue with rigs running XP. But that seems to have not been that case.

I am not aware of any fix yet. My issue comes and goes randomly with no rhyme or reason as to why the Render Preview “Option” (as in… The user has a choice of whether to employ it or not), automatically starts all by itself.
But I do have to say that I have not experienced this Render Preview auto-start issue quite as often in PD10, as I did in PD9. But it has happened over two different video cards and various updated and rolled back drivers.


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you probably already know this but make sure you download the drivers from nvidia and not from the factory of the laptop website.

Also did this happen all the time since you got PD?

Do you remember what driver version you had before that did not cause the preview render to pop up?

Ok I figured it out. NVIDIA beta drives cause this problem. I am using a notebook and their current non beta driver 301.42 seems to work fine. 304.79 BETA and the versions before that caused this problem for me. --------------------------Signature----------------------
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Cranston, were they Nvidia video cards? If they were it might at least narrow it down a bit. Although I must say I only run Nvidia cards and have never until yesterday, ran up against the render problem, through PD 6,7,8,9,or 10.

Computers.....reminds me of an old cartoon showing a person standing over his computer holding an Uzzi machine gun with an angry look on his face saying "What do you mean user error"

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Sweet!
That's like 5 people or so that states it's a drivers issue.

So anyone else try using either older drivers or use the ones that worked before,this should goes same for AMD users.

Quote: Cranston, were they Nvidia video cards?

Both AMD. 3450 to 6750, with various drivers.

But it appears that it is a driver related issue, based on these recent posts. Though I still feel that an "option" in PD shouldn't auto-engage itself if one doesn't want it to. Some may prefer to just lower their preview resolution, than wait for the previews to continually regenerate themselves.
But I'll leave all this to the more tech inclined, as I make my way back to the shallow end of the pool.



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Quote: Ok I figured it out. NVIDIA beta drives cause this problem. I am using a notebook and their current non beta driver 301.42 seems to work fine. 304.79 BETA and the versions before that caused this problem for me.

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I've spent 2 weeks on this issue... Installed 301.42 (instead of 304.79). Boom! Works like before.
thx

BETA IS BETA for a reason folks. Please, others who may visit this post, resist the urge to install BETA drivers, or be aware that they are NOT tested...you are the tester!!!

Also, for Nvidia users (what I know)..ROLLBACKS do not work (per Nvidia). You must remove and CLEAN INSTALL. This appears to change from version to version (see the RELEASE NOTES from Nvidia), but it is re-occuring. Fragments remain and effect performance and operation. They require clean-install for clean rollbacks (meaning a full removal and install new)...ESPECIALLY BETA Driver releases!!.

Quote: Ok I figured it out. NVIDIA beta drives cause this problem. I am using a notebook and their current non beta driver 301.42 seems to work fine. 304.79 BETA and the versions before that caused this problem for me.

I can confirm this issue also, I have tried all the same drivers on my GTX 680 and the only one that did not show this problem was 301.42. All the BETAS have this problem. And they showed up another problem. If you do a short test in Produce mode and then stop that test, it takes quite awhile before you can proceed with anything else. The process is in some sort of wait state. This does not happen with the 301.42 drivers. There could be other issues that I have not tried. Intel Core i7 3770K 3.6 Ghz,
GTX 680, 2 X Benq23 3D monitors,
6G DDR3, Win 7 64, Win 10 (Insider) 64
PCIE SSD, Intel Sata SSD 2 500 Gbyte Seagate,
Minoru 3D WebCam, NVIDIA 3D Vision-Ready