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No doubt the 660 and 660ti are powerful cards, but expensive. It depends what your needs are. I have a GTX460 and it works for me and was only about $80 US on eBay. Faster is always more fun but more expensive ![]()
Some big considerations are you using output formats that leverage the extra GPU processing power? For example, if you produce to a .WMV format, hardware acceleration is not available and will mostly use your CPU and not your graphics card. MP4 and AVCHD output formats will take advantage the extra graphics hardware available.
Also, if you turn on many of the Fix/Enhance features like stabilization, this shifts more load on to the CPU compared to the GPU, so it somewhat depends on which Powerdirector features you frequently use as to how much you'll gain from hardware acceleration.
I'll answer your harddisk questions a bit later as it is time for dinner. ![]()
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Here is a graphics card hierarchy chart. It lets you compare Nvidia vs. AMD/ATI to give you a rough idea or what performance levels from each brand are similar.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
Here's another performance chart from Passmark that gives some idea of overall graphics power. You can search for your card and you'll quickly find the HD5450 is a dinosaur in terms of what is available now:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
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No doubt that HD5450 is way underpowered. It's classed as a mid-range card and it is only in the middle of the pack there, which means it is not suited for anything more than general purpose use (not video editing).
Your processor and memory are fine.
To improve your disks, you could utilize the new SSD drives or a modern RAID array, but what you already have will work. Put your operating system on C drive. Change your temp files to be an a drive other than where the operating system is.
When doing editing, your source files should be on a different drive than your output file destination for best performance so it is not having to read from the same drive it is trying to write to as it is rendering.
Without a lot more information, though, it is your video card holding your back right now.
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OK, this turned out to be a bad download link which Dafydd helped me sort out with Cyblerlink and this issue is successfully closed. ![]()
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Tried 3 different FTP clients and two different browsers. The browsers, of course, don't let you enter a user and password... just clicking the links which just timeout and say it can't connect.
For FTP I tried to cut and paste the name and PW, then tried typing it in manually.
I'm starting to think its a Windows 8 glitch.
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Hi,
Cyberlink sent me a download link to download the version 11 ultra software and I can't get the download to start. Tried using both the email link and also an FTP client.
The error is: Can't establish connection --> isales.cyberlink.com:21 @ Tue Jan 22 21:41:18 2013
Is this just because the download servers are busy? I tried throughout the day an no luck so far.
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Latest version 11.3 ATI drivers can be downloaded here:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx?src=CCC-CheckForDriverUpdates
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Pay attention to that download page... You must scroll down and make sure to download the version that includes the Service Pack 1 update.
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A little late, these updated drivers came out a couple days ago:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx?src=CCC-CheckForDriverUpdates
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You would select:
1. Desktop Graphics
2. Radeon HD Series
3. Choose 5xxx-series
4. Select Win7 64-bit.
Then download and install the Catalyst Software Suite.
Yes, almost all cards are capable of gaming of some sort. Yes, video editors should install these updated drivers. They provide much of the support to make your video card graphics hardware work with video editing software properly.
These drivers are updated every 30-45 days with improvements and bug fixes.
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AMD ATI Video card drivers have been updated to version 11.1
Get them here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx?src=CCC-CheckForDriverUpdates
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Sony makes a device called DVDirect, which will capture your analog stuff directly to DVD discs. That takes care of the digitizing. You can get a refurbished one for $99 at TigerDirect (USA). Has RCA, Firewire, and USB ports.
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Have you configured your virus scanner to stay out of your source file and output file directories?
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The new control center seems decent, so I would just go ahead and download the version with the preview control center option. But, that's just me ![]()
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New Drivers available today, version 10.12.
Note: They are previewing a new Control Center software, so make sure to download the stuff you want.
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx?src=CCC-CheckForDriverUpdates
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with bated breath...
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Retrospect is backup software that saves data to a network drive.
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What are these tasks running on my PC showing "liveupdate.cyberlink.com" and data transfer bytes happening?
No cyberlink product was currently running at the time.
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In theory it could run, but that PC will be slow at best.
1st, you need to upgrade to Windows Service pack 3 by using the windows update feature in your control panel and searching for updates.
2nd, you need more RAM if you are going to even try to run it on that computer. It says you have 1.2Gigabytes. Should try to get it up to 3GB (which is the maximum Windows XP pro can utilize).
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anyone try to import a Win7 media file with PD9 to see if the synch issue is resolved?
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Version 10.11 is available as of 11/17/2010
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx?src=CCC-CheckForDriverUpdates
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