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yes! 96% and you're complaining... ^^
look GPU Load parameter not making sense . PDs GPGPU will kick in...

happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan
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Not complaining ...ha ha just want to understand if its working the way it should. That screen shot of GPU Z is just during the GPU test. Not while using any other app. when PD runs its is null. Could it be that the cpu is comfortable and there just isnt a need for the GPU ?

It bogs a bit when I push it so I dont really know. Overall a vast improvement over the old m4700 though. ____________________________________

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PD not using an Nvidia GPU has been an ongoing complaint for many years/versions. .
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PowerSpec G310
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AMD A10 6800K Quad Core Processor 4.1GHz
16GB DDR3-1600 RAM
EVGA GTX960 Super OC GPU
Windows 7 Pro

Quote PD not using an Nvidia GPU has been an ongoing complaint for many years/versions.

Yeah I have read what I could find on here but it doesnt seem to be the case with everyone. I am still trying to figure it all out but thanks. ____________________________________

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Quote Yeah I have read what I could find on here but it doesnt seem to be the case with everyone. I am still trying to figure it all out but thanks.

The laptop is about 5 years old with the Quadro k2000m kepler architecture video card. The Nvidia card is not used at all when you created the DxDiag.txt.

See these posts: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/45462.page#234767 and this one: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/42357.page . Your Nvidia video card driver cannot be later than 337.88 of May 26, 2014.

It is possible that the nvidia card can be enabled in your computer. The older 337.88 drivers or earlier need to be used. The newer drivers enable the hardware encoding for the newer cards only in PowerDirector. These older posts were created when PD13 was current and Nvidia created newer drivers for their newer architecture video cards. You have the older card.

If installing the older drivers work to enable that Nvidia card on your PowerDirector then please post the results here as it will help others with the same questions.

Good luck with your investigation.

Quote Your Nvidia video card driver cannot be later than 337.88 of May 26, 2014..

You can get it here. Bottom of the page. NOT for Win 10.
http://www.guru3d.com/files-categories/videocards-nvidia-geforce-vista-|-7.html .
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16GB DDR3-1600 RAM
EVGA GTX960 Super OC GPU
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Quote Yeah I have read what I could find on here but it doesnt seem to be the case with everyone. I am still trying to figure it all out but thanks.

The laptop is about 5 years old with the Quadro k2000m kepler architecture video card. The Nvidia card is not used at all when you created the DxDiag.txt.

See these posts: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/45462.page#234767 and this one: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/42357.page . Your Nvidia video card driver cannot be later than 337.88 of May 26, 2014.

It is possible that the nvidia card can be enabled in your computer. The older 337.88 drivers or earlier need to be used. The newer drivers enable the hardware encoding for the newer cards only in PowerDirector. These older posts were created when PD13 was current and Nvidia created newer drivers for their newer architecture video cards. You have the older card.

If installing the older drivers work to enable that Nvidia card on your PowerDirector then please post the results here as it will help others with the same questions.

Good luck with your investigation.

You guys are amazing. I will have time either later tonight or tomorrow to investigate.
The only questions I have before I change any drivers is will it effect anything else that may use the card ? Or if it doesnt fix the issue can I reinstall the driver that I currently have without any issues ? Stupid question probably but I am still learning.
I really cant express the appreciation I have for people like yourselves and this forum. ____________________________________

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Quote Your Nvidia video card driver cannot be later than 337.88 of May 26, 2014..
You can get it here. Bottom of the page.
http://www.guru3d.com/files-categories/videocards-nvidia-geforce-vista-|-7.html

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hey, Myk. hope you've enjoyed Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse all rolled up in one!!!

Quote PD not using an Nvidia GPU has been an ongoing complaint for many years/versions.

i had to look for my old kodachrome slides... ^^
don't ask me about wX and or PD15 & 16...

happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan
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Samsung Galaxy Note3/NX1

one more...

always try to be happy happy joy joy ^^

PepsiMan
'garbage in garbage out' 'no bridge too far'

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What you are showing me is that it uses GPU in PD 12, 13, and 14 ? Remember I am not as smart as I look. Regardless when I run that monitor whether it be during playback ( with assorted FX and junk) or
<p style="display: inline !important;">when rendering, the activity is all CPU. That much I can do. Other programs such as Gimp , running a spinning globe logo test allowed me to use the GPU and it showed on GPUZ. So....before I proceed with installing the older driver I have to ask myself. Do you feel lucky today ? Because so far with the new, old, refurb that I souped up significantly, things have been going surprisingly well. Fact is I am afraid to install stuff that I dont know much about. And if I power up and get a blue screen of death or anything else besides my smiling avatar, I will be emotionally unstable for a while. If I have to f2 or f anything else to start up in "safe" mode for instance, I dont feel so safe. Is all this worth it ? I dont know. So who's wife is hot anyway ?
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Jeff and Tomasc is very knowledgeable so don't worry about it. it'll not crash, it'll burn itself to death. ^^
whenever updating the GPU drivers always always do a clean install.

what really you and Myk want to see is GPGPU acceleration... since my desk pc is built on AMD so PD goes to discrete video cards; however, when you have Intel cpus with built in GPUs then PD wants to go to the sugar daddy, intel HD GPUs... then there is Optimus problems... yup both dsktops and laptops.

like i said earlier, don't worry be happy happy joy joy. mentioned problem is about two years old or during PD14 when the new GPU architectures devued...

i've also included in my pics are the nVidia WHQL driver versions that'll do HA! WHQL 378.92 also do HA on my desktop. i say again don't ask me about wX and or PD15/16.

my dell xps which is 6 years old and the nVidia driver version is WHQL 285.77 with Intel HD3000, it'll go into overdrive to GPGPU whenever, she's doing 4K AVC H.264 at 176Mb/sec video bitrate if i remember correctly...

when you saw that my desktop doing GPU HA, the percentage is mostly less than 40%. that's because there is a bottlneck in my system besides PD itself!

read for reference -> Speed rendering tests: nVidia and Skylake GPU with PD14 .

if you happened to spend 1K for mobo, 3K for gpu, 9K for cpu and 1K for memory, then with less system and software bottle neck one might see >40% GPGPU utilization, but is it worth it to the individual???
moreover, funny thing one will notice is that cpu is so fast that one could care less about GPGPU HA then... ^^

once upon a time, i bought a brand spanking new video card with 1MB vram for $100 or more and played EF2000 and Apache day and night... ^^

oh, i got side tracked a bit. whose wife is hot of course yours! ^^

happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan
'garbage in garbage out' 'no bridge too far'

Yashica Electro 8 LD-6 Super 8mm
Asrock TaiChi X470, AMD R7 2700X, W7P 64, MSI GTX1060 6GB, Corsair 16GB/RAM
Dell XPS L702X i7-2860QM, W7P / W10P 64, Intel HD3000/nVidia GT 550M 1GB, Micron 16GB/RAM
Samsung Galaxy Note3/NX1

Quote Jeff and Tomasc is very knowledgeable so don't worry about it. it'll not crash, it'll burn itself to death. ^^
whenever updating the GPU drivers always always do a clean install.

what really you and Myk want to see is GPGPU acceleration... since my desk pc is built on AMD so PD goes to discrete video cards; however, when you have Intel cpus with built in GPUs then PD wants to go to the sugar daddy, intel HD GPUs... then there is Optimus problems... yup both dsktops and laptops.

like i said earlier, don't worry be happy happy joy joy. mentioned problem is about two years old or during PD14 when the new GPU architectures devued...

i've also included in my pics are the nVidia WHQL driver versions that'll do HA! WHQL 378.92 also do HA on my desktop. i say again don't ask me about wX and or PD15/16.

my dell xps which is 6 years old and the nVidia driver version is WHQL 285.77 with Intel HD3000, it'll go into overdrive to GPGPU whenever, she's doing 4K AVC H.264 at 176Mb/sec video bitrate if i remember correctly...

when you saw that my desktop doing GPU HA, the percentage is mostly less than 40%. that's because there is a bottlneck in my system besides PD itself!

read for reference -> Speed rendering tests: nVidia and Skylake GPU with PD14 .

if you happened to spend 1K for mobo, 3K for gpu, 9K for cpu and 1K for memory, then with less system and software bottle neck one might see >40% GPGPU utilization, but is it worth it to the individual???
moreover, funny thing one will notice is that cpu is so fast that one could care less about GPGPU HA then... ^^

once upon a time, i bought a brand spanking new video card with 1MB vram for $100 or more and played EF2000 and Apache day and night... ^^

oh, i got side tracked a bit. whose wife is hot of course yours! ^^

happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan
'garbage in garbage out'

Oh boy....I am doing a clean install of my brain at the moment in order to process all the information here and linked to here.
My goodness you guys are thorough.
But as I read and absorb ....I will keep an eye on my hot wife. Ha ha !
You guys are amazing. Thank you all. ____________________________________

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UPDATE

Well I downloaded and went to intstall the older driver as suggested and what do you know.......screen went BLACK and I couldnt access anything. No joke. So after many stressfull moments researching from my phone a hard restart brought everything to life again.
I HATE doing things like this but live and learn. My external HDD and backup was unplugged so at least I cant loose EVERYTHING.

So bottom line. Back to Nvidia control panel and I still cant select my GPU for PD. It does allow me to select it for other programs such as paint so I know it can be selected where a program allows. I will just have to let the i7 gpu do the work.
It wasnt performing badly though. I really wanted to know if there was a benefit to a dedicated GPU or not. I will not know for sure on this machine. But will use it where programs allow.

Next and hopefully last thoughts.......leave the old driver now or clean re-install the original ? I do plan on installing other graphics programs down the line as my needs for motion graphics increases.

Thanks to all of you who provided very helpful information. ____________________________________

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16gb ram , NVIDIA Quadro K2000M GPU
Samsung 850 EVO 1tb SSD , 500 gb HDD ,
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Quote PD not using an Nvidia GPU has been an ongoing complaint for many years/versions.

Only for laptops with Intel GPU/nVidia GPU combinations, because of NVIDIA Optimus Technology.
And stop linking that onld driver! That's justr for the nVidia GPU's from generations previous to Kepler, that didn't have integrated the NVENC core! There is no need for that driver on newer that 2010 nVidia GPU's, and actually will make things worse!

PS: Buying a laptop for video editing is just pissing away money. But... whatever floats ones boat!

Quote Next and hopefully last thoughts.......leave the old driver now or clean re-install the original ? I do plan on installing other graphics programs down the line as my needs for motion graphics increases.

Install the latest Quadro driver. Not GeForce (GeForce driver will install on a Quadro GPU, but is not recomended for video editing on a laptop)!

You folks should trust Sonic, he is the resident EXPERT on these things, he knows his stuff regarding graphics cards. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Thanks for the additional inputs guys. Will revert to proper driver and move on from this. I have to say though that this machine was purchased for $ 300 and performed very nicely out of the refurb box. Upgrade to SSD and moved the HDD to the DVD bay and it not only scores highly on Benchmark tests but Windows is at 6.9 and thats more than sufficient for me. It will not float my boat however but can be used ON my boat if I so choose. And I like that. Again thanks to all for sharing your knowledge. It truly is appreciated.
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16gb ram , NVIDIA Quadro K2000M GPU
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