I recently upgraded to 17 from 15, but it's causing me nothing but problems:
- The program is VERY slow, often crashing when opening very simple project files PowerDirector 15 was blazing fast.
- The preview almost never works. 99.99999% of the time it gets stuck on one frame. Even manually adjusting it or lowering the preview resolution doesn't fix it. Here's the weird part - if part of a clip has its preview get stuck, that part will also freeze on the exact same frame in the finished product. This shouldn't be happening consideing that's just a preview.
- The "continuous timeline" feature keeps getting stuck. The option is supposed to show you thumbnails for easy reference, but it always stops early. I have to move the slider a bit to get it to keep updating the "continuous" thumbnails.
- Adding clips into my Library is extremely slow, often crashing when adding very small clips.
- The first few seconds of every piece of imported audio, whether from a video clip or just audio, is always delayed or completely missing.
PowerDirector 15 worked perfectly 100% of the time. I only switched to 17 because 15 didn't work with the latest NVIDIA drivers, and this is also my gaming rig.
I have the latest Windows updates, the latest NVIDIA drivers, and PowerDirector 17 is completely up-to-date. I've done malware scans with many different PAID versions of anti-malware programs, such as Malwarebytes. All of them say my PC is 100% clean.
It's an SSD, so there's no need to defrag. I have all the latest drivers installed.
My specs:
Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00 GHz (8 CPUs)
NVIDIA GTX 1080
16 GB of RAM
Running on an SSD, all clips stored on same SSD as the program uses.
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
What I've tried so far:
- Everything on the CyberLink forums
- Re-installed the program
- Virus scans
- Re-installed NVIDIA driver
- Disconnected from the internet during editing
- Tried the program without any patches
- Cleared Temp folder
- Tried with Shadow Files (I didn't need them when using 15, but I tried anyways)
- Disabled Hardware Accelleration features
I guarantee that EVERYTHING any automatic website comment-bot would say doesn't work. Don't recommend the simple things, such as "Did you restart your computer?" or anything that I've listed.
Once again, the ONLY TWO THINGS that changed on my computer was PowerDirector 15 being removed and PowerDirector 17 being installed, and the latest NVIDIA driver being instaled. Nothing else. PowerDirector 15 worked perfectly 100% of the time.
I really hope this isn't another "Sorry, there's nothing we can do for you" situation, because I've been having WAY too many of those.
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