Messages posted by ahamling27

Quote: Amazing, thanks Mr/Mrs Hamling27, that certainly saved me ripping apart my new Alienware PC to fix the green screen problem, shame the official help couldnt find time to confirm your results. It worked for me immediatly.

It's Mr. Hamling, and I'm glad I could help you out! Since I have posted this I have gotten an SSD and completely reinstalled Windows and PD10. I'm also on nVidia driver 301.42 and I haven't had the problem surface again. I know PD10 also had an update within that time frame as well. So you should be able to have hardware acceleration with out the green flashing screen issues. I guess make sure everything is up-to-date and you should be fine. If disabling hardware acceleration worked for you and you don't really notice a difference than I guess you could live with it but I think the issue was fixed in either the driver update or the PD10 update.

Cheers!

Well I at least have a work around if anyone reads this and is having the same problem as me.

*NOTE* This will only work with Intel Z68/H67/H61 platforms. Those are the only platforms that can utilize the integrated graphics of second generation Sandy Bridge CPU's. This will not work with the Intel P67 platform because the integrated graphics are not supported on it.

What I did was install the Lucid Virtu software to utilize the integrated Intel HD3000 graphics of my Intel 2600k CPU. After installing the software you have two options, you can hook your monitor straight up to your motherboard or keep it plugged into your discrete GPU. If you plug it directly into your motherboard you'll use the integrated graphics to display windows and non-graphically intensive programs like browsers or 2-D games so your system can keep your GPU idle while your not gaming and in turn(so Lucid would like you to think) reduce the power consumption of your PC. Personally I keep my monitor plugged into my discrete GPU because I don't like to fool around with whitelisting games.

But enough about Lucid's Virtu software. What this enabled me to do was utilize the Quick Sync technology of the Sandy Bridge CPUs, therefore allowing me to use hardware acceleration through the Intel HD 3000 GPU.

Quick Sync is so fast, that I'm actually really happy that a driver/program error caused my original problem. I wouldn't have stumbled upon the Lucid Virtu software.

I would actually suggest to anyone using hardware acceleration on a discrete GPU to think about using the Virtu software to unlock your integrated GPU's power. If you do a quick google search on the Quick Sync technology you'll see that it's no slouch in the encoding/decoding department.

I hope this helps others that are in the same boat I was. If you have a 2nd gen SB CPU and the right chipset, you'd should really look into the Lucid Virtu technology.

@BabIndia, After I enable Hardware acceleration, the check box for CUDA is still greyed out.

@ynotfish, Thanks for letting me know that. It might just be that my hardware/driver combo isn't working right.

For the record I'm using an EVGA GTX 560 Ti Superclocked. It's factory overclocked, but like I said in the OP, it worked fine on the drivers it shipped with, the 285 series drivers. Also, rendering only on my CPU isn't that rough, the i7 2600k is speedy enough to encode/decode without a hiccup.

Thanks for your replies, and I'm going to troubleshoot this more this afternoon.

I just wanted to point out that after upgraded my graphics card drivers from nVidia's 285.93 to the 295.73 drivers for my nvidia gtx 560 ti, I started to get the green flashing screen during playback of certain files. Mostly .mp4 files, as .wmv worked fine.

After some digging around in nVidia preferences and PD10 preferences, deselecting the "Enable hardware decoding" in PD10's preferences caused the issue to go away instantly.

I'd love to go back to the 285 drivers but my gaming performance has increased quite a bit with the latest drivers, and since I record gaming sessions to edit later, I like the performance gain. I haven't notice too much slow down anyway with out the hardware acceleration, but it would be nice to be able to use it.

Also on a related note, the other preference in Hardware Acceleration, "Enable INTEL Effect Acceleration/NVIDIA CUDA/...etc" is greyed out for me. My graphics card has CUDA enabled so I'm not quite sure why I can't use it.

Any responses are appreciated and I hope that there's a fix for this soon.

I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in as well. I noticed on the first post that you have an nVidia graphics card and you stated that it's up-to-date as of March 4th, '12. I'm assuming you mean the latest drivers as of then, which would have been the 295 drivers.

I have also had the green flashing screen problems in PowerDirector 10. Upon delving deep into the problem, it seems these drivers don't work with hardware acceleration. I deselected the "Enable hardware decoding" check box in the Preferences under Hardware Acceleration. And to my surprise it fixed it immediately.

Since then, nVidia has released the 296.10 drivers but they haven't fixed this problem either. Running the 285 drivers my computer came with, everything was fine. I'm not sure if this is a CyberLink or nVidia driver problem but I'm leaning heavily towards the drivers.

I can only hope a newer driver can fix this as the latest drivers have increased my gaming performance significantly for my gtx 560 ti. And recording gaming sessions for editing is my job, so going back to older drivers for less performance isn't an option for me.