Slow Performance in Power Director 10 when previewing the timeline

DavidDD13

Newbie Location: Burton-on-Trent Joined: Sep 17, 2012 03:58 Messages: 4 Offline

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Sep 17, 2012 07:06

Hello,

Hope you can help, I am new to this so let me know if I haven't provided any information needed.

The Issue is with Power Director 10 Ultra (64 bit) version 10.0.0.1703 running on Windows 7 professional 64 bit.

Issue is that when I move a clip onto the timeline, even in low preview resolution the preview runs for a couple of seconds then freezes for another few seconds (typically around 10 -15 seconds) whilst it renders, then another couple of seconds preview and frezes for render as before and so on. Files are AVCHD .m2ts video clips.
My system is an i7 2600 with 8Gb RAM, a GTX 460 graphics card with 1GB DDR5 RAM. The funny thing is that on my previous system (a core 2 Quad Q6600 with 4 Gb RAM and a 8800GTX with 768Mb) this worked to a pretty decent level of performance even in normal preview mode without all this waiting for rendering.
This is making PD pretty unusable for me so I would be really grateful for any assistance please.

p.s. have attached the DXdiag files.

kind regards,

David

Filename	D Wolverson -DxDiag.txt	Download
Description
Filesize	24 Kbytes
Downloaded:	894 time(s)

Filename	64 D Wolverson -DxDiag.txt	Download
Description
Filesize	32 Kbytes
Downloaded:	799 time(s)

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stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Sep 17, 2012 07:17

There is a good chance that your video card driver is the cause of the problem. There are a lot of complaints about the latest driver (which you have). Try going back to an earlier one to see if that fixes the problem. .
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DavidDD13

Newbie Location: Burton-on-Trent Joined: Sep 17, 2012 03:58 Messages: 4 Offline

Sep 17, 2012 07:53

Thanks for the really quick reply, much appreciate.
I have rolled the GTX 460 driver back to version 8.17.13.142 and things are perhaps slightly improved but not a significant change.

stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Sep 17, 2012 08:52

Are you using full AC power on that laptop or some other "balanced" setting.

When you you last clean up your computer (junk files, unused programs, defrag, etc? .
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DavidDD13

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Sep 17, 2012 10:07

Hi, Many thanks for the further reply. The PC is actually a fresh build, literally a couple of days ago, so no issues with old progs, defrags etc ..but (although it is a actually a standard tower PC) the power setting is balanced. If I am honest I don't understand what that might impact, please could you share what you are thinking?

FredB

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 15, 2008 21:14 Messages: 1317 Offline

Sep 17, 2012 11:53

The last driver that works for Nvidia is 301.42 (8.17.13.142) which is what you have now .
If you have installed any BETA drivers, you must do a CLEAN install of 301.42 to make it work. Any other version is CURRENTLY a problem!

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stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Sep 17, 2012 12:43

Quote: Hi, Many thanks for the further reply. The PC is actually a fresh build, literally a couple of days ago, so no issues with old progs, defrags etc ..but (although it is a actually a standard tower PC) the power setting is balanced. If I am honest I don't understand what that might impact, please could you share what you are thinking?

Since it is a desktop, it has to be plugged in and a balanced power setting is of questionable value. It is great for laptops because that setting put the processor in a lower power usage - Read that as slows down the processor.

Now that you bring it up, your video card should also be put into best performance or balanced and not quality.

I'm just guessing at what other people have experienced with slow video performance and putting them out here. .
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FredB

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Sep 17, 2012 12:49

Quote: Now that you bring it up, your video card should also be put into best performance or balanced and not quality.

The GTX460 has 336 Cores and is a fairly fast and strong GPU. I think the driver is more the issue, the GPU (having 1GB of DDR5 memory), should be FINE! My opinion!

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McGrath

Newbie Joined: Jan 15, 2012 20:33 Messages: 1 Offline

Sep 17, 2012 14:38

Seems its all Geforce cards... The problem exists in any driver after 301.42. The work around is in the Nvidia Contral panel to turn off Cuda.

I had this issue with a 470 and the new 660 TI and any driver above 301.42 and have a open ticket with Nvidia about this.

Until Nividia sorts this out, prob wouldnt be a bad idea to sticky something so people can see it and not panic (like i did

I will update as I have more information.

Matt

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FredB

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Sep 17, 2012 14:55

PM the Moderator if you want to suggest that.

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DavidDD13

Newbie Location: Burton-on-Trent Joined: Sep 17, 2012 03:58 Messages: 4 Offline

Sep 17, 2012 16:21

Many thanks for all the help and suggestions, they are very much appreciated.

I switched off CUDA thanks to your suggestion 'McGrath' and it now works fine even in high quality preview, none of the rendering issues I saw before.

thanks to you all.

kind regards,

David

Brama

Newbie Joined: Oct 10, 2012 05:27 Messages: 1 Offline

Oct 10, 2012 05:44

Hello all,
I have the same problem with Power director 10. How do I switch off Cuda? My graphics card is a Geforce GX550TI, I have 16gb ram, Intel I7, 600w power supply.
The funny thing is that it worked fine and then one day to the next it started rendering incredibly slow (unusable).
I use it for my business for youtube videos, any help would be apreciated. Thanks in advance