Nothing you've described is normal, and I doubt that any amount of twiddling with Windows task priorities will make any difference. To me, it sounds like either something is wrong with Windows and/or PD - or the clips you're trying to work with are overwhelming your system.

To start, please follow the steps in the read Me Before Posting guide and attach the DxDiag test results. That will give us a better look at the capabilities and current condition of your system.

You should also run the 2 commands as shown in this post and see if they can detect and repair any damage to Windows core system files.

You should also try working with the sample files that come with PD to see if you have can get it to respond normally while editing. You can access the sample files by enabling this setting then chosing File | New project:

1. I am using the most recent Power Director, and it's Power Director 20, as I said. Whatever updates have processed, it's not showing any updates available, even after the re-install, through the Cyberlink Application Manager. Again, I reinstalled it this morning so it is a clean install.

2. I am trying to use the program. Full stop. My clear explanation of what I am trying to do is literally anything. I've already provided this information.

3. I've already provided the detailed specs of my computer. The only further information that DxDiag provided is that it is BIOS 1.14.0 and Directx12. DxDiag attached, as requested. A clean install of Windows 10 was performed a month ago when my laptop went into the shop because I couldn't get the BIOS to force update from 2020 (thanks, Dell) so that I could get to H2. Theoretically, there shouldn't be any problems with Windows unless some sort of issue with the latest update.

4. I didn't receive any errors pop up while using PD. Nothing showed up on Scan Now and no repairs were performed. Screenshot attached.

5. No component store corruption was detected on the DISM scan. Screenshot attached.

Quote Nothing you've described is normal, and I doubt that any amount of twiddling with Windows task priorities will make any difference. To me, it sounds like either something is wrong with Windows and/or PD - or the clips you're trying to work with are overwhelming your system.

To start, please follow the steps in the read Me Before Posting guide and attach the DxDiag test results. That will give us a better look at the capabilities and current condition of your system.

You should also run the 2 commands as shown in this post and see if they can detect and repair any damage to Windows core system files.

You should also try working with the sample files that come with PD to see if you have can get it to respond normally while editing. You can access the sample files by enabling this setting then chosing File | New project:

I am able, to an extent, able to work with the small clips they provide, as long as they are not more than 10 minutes in total. Then it starts to freeze.

HOWEVER, an interesting point is that the PDHanumanSvr Application did not trigger at any point while using the samples provided. The fans do not come on while working with the samples, either.

That makes me wonder what the PDHanumanSvr Application is and how I stop it from being triggered or called or whatever.

Edit: I'm assuming it's 10 minutes because I added all of them. It's kind of hard to tell because the timeline is in the number of seconds as opposed to minutes and seconds.

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1. I am using the most recent Power Director, and it's Power Director 20, as I said. Whatever updates have processed, it's not showing any updates available, even after the re-install, through the Cyberlink Application Manager. Again, I reinstalled it this morning so it is a clean install.

2. I am trying to use the program. Full stop. My clear explanation of what I am trying to do is literally anything. I've already provided this information.

3. I've already provided the detailed specs of my computer. The only further information that DxDiag provided is that it is BIOS 1.14.0 and Directx12. DxDiag attached, as requested. A clean install of Windows 10 was performed a month ago when my laptop went into the shop because I couldn't get the BIOS to force update from 2020 (thanks, Dell) so that I could get to H2. Theoretically, there shouldn't be any problems with Windows unless some sort of issue with the latest update.

4. I didn't receive any errors pop up while using PD. Nothing showed up on Scan Now and no repairs were performed. Screenshot attached.

5. No component store corruption was detected on the DISM scan. Screenshot attached.

Quote I am able, to an extent, able to work with the small clips they provide, as long as they are not more than 10 minutes in total. Then it starts to freeze.

HOWEVER, an interesting point is that the PDHanumanSvr Application did not trigger at any point while using the samples provided. The fans do not come on while working with the samples, either.

That makes me wonder what the PDHanumanSvr Application is and how I stop it from being triggered or called or whatever.

Edit: I'm assuming it's 10 minutes because I added all of them. It's kind of hard to tell because the timeline is in the number of seconds as opposed to minutes and seconds.

Hi,

I'm not tech savvy enough to give a definitive functional spec on PDHanumanSvr, but it is, and always has been, an integral part of PDR, so I don't believe it is causing your issue, but it's functioning may well be symptomatic of the issue.

Looking at your DxDiag, 7 of the 10 faults reported are Apphang Transient events, 2 are AppHangB1 events. Both these are problems with a program(s) interacting with Windows.

A quick look online gives a lot of reports, a couple of links are below, but I cannot vouch/endorse them, but they may be pointers to your issue??

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/321130/windows-apps-hang-frequently-with-apphangtransient.html

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_other/a-problem-caused-this-program-to-stop-interacting/66b1e756-09bd-4d2e-9875-5654ccca02c3


Cheers
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In addition to PDR's thoughtful analysis, the DxDiag report also shows that you're not running the latest Dell-approved driver for your nVidia RTX2060 (15.1169), nor are you running the latest OEM release from nVidia (15.1259). I'd try the Dell one first and see if that helps stabilize things.

If you want to try the latest nVidia driver, use the clean install method described here.

Okay.

Link 1A RE graphics drivers: There were no mandatory or optional drivers for Windows Update so I went to look for what I could find. I checked the Dell Support Assist which showed an unexpected error like it has been for the last two years. I eventually found my way to the Dell Drivers and Downloads which said I needed the same 31 updates and drivers it did when I tried to do the 30.0.15.1169 when it came out in April. It wouldn't install. itired installing the Intel UHD Graphics driver that was two down from it and tha had me exit everthing before I was able to try and install it. Intel says that driver version 25.20.100.677--the one that showed "Catalog Attributes Universal: False Declarative: True" is up-to-date as of 2019, no further updates. However, there was a secondary link for the "Intel® Graphics Driver 30.0.101.1960 for Xe Dedicated, 6th-12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor Graphics, and related Intel Atom®, Pentium®, and Celeron® processors." that is for several chips (recommended to go check out the list if anyone is finding this thread and wondering if it is their problem) I finally just Googled NVIDA drivers and found the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page where you can choose a "Game Ready Driver' or "Studio Driver" depending on whether or not you're someone "who prioritizes stability and quality for creative workflows including video editing, animation photography, graphic design, and livestreaming." Given the problems I'm having, I opted for the "Studio Driver" before restarting my computer to clear the caches referred to in Link 1B.

Link 1B-1 RE Disk Cleanup: The cache was pretty empty, as I maintain that pretty regularly because in the last 30 years I’ve learned that no matter what gets installed, something gets left behind. I still cleared it because who knows if the 2MB in the recycle bin is what's going to tip things over?

Link 1B-2 RE “How to Tweak Paging File for better Windows 10 Performance”: talks about doing it on a “variant partition rather than your boot partition”—i.e., putting it on something that isn’t the drive / portion of drive where your operating system is. “Paging File size depends on the size of [the] Physical memory of a computer. It can be lowest 1.5 times and highest 4 times of RAM.” Since I have 16GB of RAM my minimum should be 24,000MB and my maximum should be 65,536MB (16GB x 1024 = 16,384MB; 16,384MB x 4 ceiling = 65,536MB). According to the Virtual Memory box I have 169,538MB of memory available so it checks out? It said the minimum allowed is 16MB, recommended 2920MB, and Currently Allocated 9216MB for both my C: and D: drives. Even if I max out the maximum Paging File for each (64,000x2), I still have a buffer of 38,466MB…right? That’s what I can theoretically do, anyway. When you go back up the page it says “In order to lower the rupture of the paging file, set the same number or the initial size and maximum size. … This makes it certain that the file can no either expand or shrink and hence will avoid fragmentation.” My OS is on the C: drive so I tried to set it to “No paging file” per the suggestion of the page (because my drive is not partitioned except for the part that Windows automatically carves out for itself) but it continued to default to “System managed size” and therefore remains at 9216MB. Though, again, when you scroll back up the page they suggest “plac[ing] the paging file without any extra data on its[] own partition. It makes sure that Windows performance will improve and the paging file will not be shattered.” If I have to go that far to be able to use this program, however, it isn’t worth it. Nowhere do they give a recommended amount on how much, just gives you a range of the minimum and maximum. I went for maximum just because…why not? I will note that once I did that, it change the “Virtual Memory” prompt to say that I had a total of 73,216MB “for all drives.”

Link 2: RE Add-ons: I don’t think I have any add-ons for PD. I don’t think I have many (if any) of the extras installed because of their enormous sizes (many are bigger than the base program) and the fact you have to uninstall them one-by-one each time you uninstall PD itself—there’s nothing that just uninstalls all of it so you have to wait for each one to finish uninstalling before you can uninstall the next one. But I could be wrong. If you could let me know where to find that information, I would appreciate it.

I additionally added that Rafiki to the list of high performance apps. I’m not setting priorities in the task manager, I’m using the Windows Graphics Settings because NVIDIA was phased out of controlling it for itself and is now handled by Graphics Settings in Windows. It’s been about a year- to 18 months that happened, apparently. I found out when I went back to playing my old game in January and went to switch it to the GPU instead of the Integrated Graphics.

After ALL of that PD again asked to streamline my GPU for performance. I clicked yes.

ALL of this to say: It worked better from the sole perspective that it wasn’t reporting that it was frozen while I was trying to use it—just sluggish AF--BUT then the PDH thing was still missing even when I didn’t load the presets. It froze when I tried to close it so I had to force close it.

SO, I uninstalled it, turned off the graphics settings to high power, restarted the computer, and re-ran the DxDiag for the 3rd time. It’s literally still saying it’s hanging up on Power Director when it isn’t even installed. I’m at a complete loss.


What drives me crazy is that I had a worse BIOS and arguably the same drivers two months ago when I gave up on trying to use it and it didn’t have these freezing problems. I don’t know what updates occurred in-between because I painfully uninstalled each component (which took almost an hour because, as previously related, each “fun” pack is its own separate program). Like, all of this was running fine (unintuitive [to me] but running]. Why do I now need a computer science degree and the Geek Squad to just get it moving? ESPECIALLY with it hanging up on PD WHEN IT ISN’T EVEN INSTALLED?

Like, this is obviously not your guys’ faults but when I Google these things they’re not unique unto me, which is why I started with the steps that I did in the original post.

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Hi,

I'm not tech savvy enough to give a definitive functional spec on PDHanumanSvr, but it is, and always has been, an integral part of PDR, so I don't believe it is causing your issue, but it's functioning may well be symptomatic of the issue.

Looking at your DxDiag, 7 of the 10 faults reported are Apphang Transient events, 2 are AppHangB1 events. Both these are problems with a program(s) interacting with Windows.

A quick look online gives a lot of reports, a couple of links are below, but I cannot vouch/endorse them, but they may be pointers to your issue??

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/321130/windows-apps-hang-frequently-with-apphangtransient.html

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_other/a-problem-caused-this-program-to-stop-interacting/66b1e756-09bd-4d2e-9875-5654ccca02c3


Cheers
PowerDirector Moderator

I'm sorry this is such a quagmire for you. Again, none of this is normal and no user should need to put in anywhere near the effort you have to simply get PD working. As I said earlier, no amount of tweaking Windows settings is going to do anything for you because Windows settings aren't the problem.

It's pretty clear that these issues are beyond the scope of this user forum, and I hope you'll contact CL tech support about this. Normally I suggest placing a link to the forum discussion in your submission so they can see what's gone on already, but in my experience there's way too much info here and they'll simply reply with boilerplate responses like asking for the DxDiag results.

As long as you're patient and go with the flow, they should be able to do some remote diagnostics and get to the root of these problems. Perhaps PDM can use their contacts at CL to make sure your ticket is seen by a suitably senior tech, which might save a few frustrating steps.