Hi Branndon. I don't know if the following is the same as your problem, but I've just spent a few days trying to get PowerDirector 14 back up and running. About a week ago, it just suddenly started running so slow - I couldn't preview anything, even at the lowest res, it took ages to load small projects - it was just unusable, yet it had been running fine before that - it was just sudden. I'm running an HP Envy laptop, Win 10 - 64 Bit, 16 GB RAM, AMD A10 ELite 4 core CPU, Radeon Dual graphics).
I systematically stopped all background processes, anti-virus, malware, etc and took them out of start up, but still no good. I then started uninstalling one by one, each of the Cyberlink products (all the different packs etc that came with PowerDirector - 8 or 9 of them). After each uninstall, I'd reboot my laptop and test if any different, but still no good. Eventually I had no Cyberlink products at all on my laptop.
I then just installed PowerDirector14 only - bare bones product, but still the problems continued. It was driving me mental! I then thought to check if any Windows updates had installed over the last couple of weeks on my laptop, so I checked, and there was a Windows security patch and a separate Adobe Flash security update, both installed on 19th May. I uninstalled the Adobe Flash one first, rebooted, and lo and behold, PowerDirector 14 was flying high again! Perfect.
I then reloaded each separate package and addon, rebooting and testing after each one, and everything is working great. I didn't take notice at the time of what the specific Flash update was, but looking back on their website, the APSB16-15 security update was released about then.
Hopefully this will help you and others out who have suddenly had slow and freeze issues suddenly towards the end of May 2016.
Marty (In the Barrel).
Remember, there's three types of people in this world - those who can count, and those who can't!