Will PowerDVD 12 work on my fast system?

zipkan

Newbie Joined: Oct 18, 2012 22:27 Messages: 3 Offline

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Oct 18, 2012 23:06

I've purchased PowerDVD 9 & 10 in the past and I am considering purchasing PowerDVD 12 in order to watch a 3D Blu-ray. I have reviewed the system requirements page and I meet all requirements, and I have run the upgrade advisor (several "unknown" results for the processor, and the video card is detected as Standard VGA adapter). In the past, PowerDVD 9 & 10 did not work with my system with the "screen resolution not supported" error. (details from 2010).

My virtual screen resolution is 5320 x 2120px, I have Windows 7 (I will have Windows 8 when (and IF) I purchase PowerDVD 12.)

Other system specifications:

[*]Xeon E5-2687 (16 logical cores @ 3.1Ghz; 60% faster than i7 extreme)
[*]64 GB of RAM
[*]More TB's of disk space than I have fingers
[*]2x GTX 680's

My question is: Will PowerDVD 12 throw an exception when presented with a 5320 x 2120px display size, like its cousins PowerDVD 9 and 10? Switching monitors between portrait and landscape, or disabling monitors is not an option for me, and if that's the only option, then I will not be buying this product. I am unwilling to buy this product only to find out that an ancient bug still keeps it from running.

Thanks for your time,

CyberLink-Michael

Senior Contributor Location: Europe Joined: Apr 18, 2007 04:05 Messages: 7418 Offline

Oct 19, 2012 02:21

Hi,
there are trial Versions available, suggest you test it on your specific platform.
http://www.cyberlink.com/prog/trial/index.do

XEON CPU is not in our regular test scope, as welly as that high Display resolution

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Michael

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malone88

Newbie Joined: Nov 25, 2006 09:37 Messages: 15 Offline

Oct 19, 2012 02:33

I am also a newbie but I had a similar problem and was told by Cyberlink to reduce my screen resolution to 1080 x 1920 the full high definition standard. That advice worked for me.

zipkan

Newbie Joined: Oct 18, 2012 22:27 Messages: 3 Offline

Oct 19, 2012 14:22

I receive the message "...not optimized for this screen resolution, some functions may not work properly." At least it doesn't close itself.

But, I also notice there's 300 TCP connections being made by PowerDVD12 on port 50003. Why so many? It's connecting to people within my \12 subnet.

hans moser

Newbie Joined: Sep 28, 2012 17:45 Messages: 7 Offline

Oct 20, 2012 18:24

I just got delivered my new IBM Roadrunner. It's a 1-Petaflops Supercomputer what is connected directly to a 100ft LED-Wall in my livingroom, and I want to watch the new James Bond BlueRay on it. Can PDVD12 help me with this? I will not accept a NO as answer, just to know ...

zipkan

Newbie Joined: Oct 18, 2012 22:27 Messages: 3 Offline

Oct 20, 2012 18:33

Except that it's not 100ft led-wall, it's just a set of 4 100$ monitors, with two readily available graphics cards.

And, after purchasing PowerDVD 9 and 10, and finding out later that they don't work at all with more powerful setups (they worked great when I first bought them; at that time my setup was mediocre.) Then after researching this issue and finding multiple threads from one to two years ago complaining about this very issue and what amounts to a 4-hour fix (comment out the TerminateProcess() call & re-internationalize the messagebox to say that it _won't_ shut down the application), you can see why I'm reluctant to pay for the software only to find out it doesn't work, and that there's no refunds.

So I'm just asking ahead of time if this "feature" is still in the product, or if someone did indeed spend the 4 hours to fix it. (and yes, I do realize that at some companies, 10% of an engineer's time is spent coding, the other 90% is with process-related overhead)