Quote As per title, its been almost a year since I started using PD and despite being told that nvidia cards will be supported, PD16 with the latest update still doesn't utilise the nVidia graphics card on my machine.

Even if it does at some point, there is no speed increase in rendering times. Even lower speccd Macbook Pro is doing better with the same video files and similar effects.

Common issue wiht most consumer NLEs on machines with switchable graphics. PowerDirector, VideoStudio (Not Sure about Pinnacle Studio), etc.

Never had an issue with this with VEGAS Pro (or Movie Studio Platinum), Premiere Pro CC, or Resolve though.

Biggest issue is that anything the NLE spawns is limited to that weaker iGPU: Plug-Ins, for example, are locked to the GPU of the application that spawns them - so you will often get bad Preview Perforance in Adorage, VitaScene, Boris Title Studio, Newlue Titler Pro, etc. because they can only use the Intel iGPU when called from an NLE that cannot run on the GTX card.

Not to mention it totally cripples performance for [especially] 4K editing, especially when you start using multiple effects, color correction, noise reduction, etc.

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Common issue wiht most consumer NLEs on machines with switchable graphics. PowerDirector, VideoStudio (Not Sure about Pinnacle Studio), etc.

Never had an issue with this with VEGAS Pro (or Movie Studio Platinum), Premiere Pro CC, or Resolve though.

Biggest issue is that anything the NLE spawns is limited to that weaker iGPU: Plug-Ins, for example, are locked to the GPU of the application that spawns them - so you will often get bad Preview Perforance in Adorage, VitaScene, Boris Title Studio, Newlue Titler Pro, etc. because they can only use the Intel iGPU when called from an NLE that cannot run on the GTX card.

Not to mention it totally cripples performance for [especially] 4K editing, especially when you start using multiple effects, color correction, noise reduction, etc.

Yes but why?

The only reason I paid for this software is to edit 4k footage and do effects, cc, LUTs etc.

Cyberlink never said anything about it may not work on your PC.

Regretting my decision of investing in a Windows computer trusting that PD16 will do the job. I should've just upgraded my Mac and use it's native video editing program. Much faster and efficient software-hardware usage.

From reading some of the forum posts, it looks like most PD users are contempt with just 1080p footage and still using old school avi and mpg files.

I wish there were more people using PD expecting results like that of premiere pro. I mean seriously, Cyberlink shamelessly advertise it's products to be direct competitors to Adobe offerings but in reality it is more like comparing a Hyundai to Mercedes. Yes, PD is cheaper but still I'd rather pay more and get the expected performance than pay less and get nothing out of it.

PowerDirector works fine with a desktop computer having either nVidia or AMD graphics cards.
Buying a laptop for video editing is a mistake. It's more expensive than an equivalent desktop, more fragile, prone to overheating and... incompatible.

Explanation: The video card switching (to the "other" GPU) is done "automatically" by the Intel driver when it detects a high usage of the GPU cores. It's designed specifically for gaming.
Unfortunatelly video editing does NOT use those cores, it uses the dedicated ASIC video engine in the modern GPU's. So intel graphics doesn't have a clue about that and it doesn't switch. Intel switching is behing the times and they don't really care about NLE editing because... laptops are not supposed to be doing that. That's why they are called specifically "gaming" laptops and not "video editing" laptops.

PS: Vegas does NOT use the GPU for decoding or encoding, not with the new video cards.
Premiere never had GPU acceleration for video decoding or encoding. It's all marketing, but testing shows reality.