VSPro X5: Enable Hardware Encoder greyed out

[Ari Kagura]

Hi!

I downloaded the trial for Video Studio X5 and have managed to make a few videos already with it (mostly desktop screen recordings in 1080p). However, after realizing how slow my renderings were, I toyed around with the settings and noticed that the Enable Hardware Encoder option is greyed out. Meaning that I cannot enable it. I can, however, enable other Hardware acceleration features.

I'm not totally sure what the issue might be since I'm pretty sure my GPU supports this feature ... or does it? Or could it be a limitation of the trial version ... ?

Currently, I'm running:
+ Windows 7 64-bit
+ EVGA Nvidia GTX 670 2GB
+ Intel i7-3770 Ivy Bridge
+ 16 GB DDR3 1600
Other hardware information can be found in my profile.

Also, system information as sourced from the Nvidia control panel:

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NVIDIA System Information report created on: 05/22/2012 00:53:28
System name: BODHUM

[Display]
Operating System:	Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)
DirectX version:	11.0 
GPU processor:		GeForce GTX 670
Driver version:		301.34
DirectX support:	11.1
CUDA Cores:		1344 
Core clock:		967 MHz 
Memory clock:		3104 MHz (6208 MHz data rate) 
Memory interface:	256-bit 
Total available graphics memory:	4095 MB
Dedicated video memory:	2048 MB GDDR5
System video memory:	0 MB
Shared system memory:	2047 MB
Video BIOS version:	80.04.19.00.72
IRQ:			16
Bus:			PCI Express x16 Gen3

[Components]

easyDaemonAPIU64.DLL		1.8.14.0		NVIDIA Update Components
WLMerger.exe		1.8.14.0		NVIDIA Update Components
daemonu.exe		1.8.14.0		NVIDIA Update Components
ComUpdatus.exe		1.8.14.0		NVIDIA Update Components
NvUpdtr.dll		1.8.14.0		NVIDIA Update Components
NvUpdt.dll		1.8.14.0		NVIDIA Update Components
nvui.dll		8.17.13.0134		NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdsync.exe		8.17.13.0134		NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdplcy.dll		8.17.13.0134		NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdbat.dll		8.17.13.0134		NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdapix.dll		8.17.13.0134		NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
NVCPL.DLL		8.17.13.0134		NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvCplUI.exe		4.4.730.0		NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSS.dll		6.14.13.0134		NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvS.dll		6.14.13.0134		NVIDIA Video Server
NVSTVIEW.EXE		7.17.13.0134		NVIDIA 3D Vision Photo Viewer
NVSTTEST.EXE		7.17.13.0134		NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application
NVSTRES.DLL		7.17.13.0134		NVIDIA 3D Vision Module  (0)
NVMCTRAY.DLL		8.17.13.0134		NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll		6.14.13.0134		NVIDIA Display Server
PhysX		09.12.0213		NVIDIA PhysX
NVCUDA.DLL		8.17.13.0134		NVIDIA CUDA 4.2.1 driver
nvGameS.dll		6.14.13.0134		NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

If anyone can figure it out, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

[Ken Berry]

As far as we are aware, the trial version is the full version with nothing disabled. Just a few less templates and similar things to save downloading space. So hardware acceleration should work -- it does on mine with a far more ancient graphics card.

[Ari Kagura]

Thanks for the response, Ken. I suppose it's good to know that nothing is crippled in the trial, aside from the templates, which I'm not too worried about.

The funny thing is that I can get hardware encoder acceleration to work on other programs like Cyberlink MediaEspresso but not with Corel VS Pro ... so I'm not really sure what the problem could be. Could it be a driver issue? Should I try installing beta drivers instead of release drivers?