Hardware acceleration

[SoNic67]

VideoStudio X7 (17.1.0.22) with nVidia Quadro 6000 video card. I have activated all the 'hardware acceleration' boxes.

I have used GPU-Z to monitor the GPU utilization during encoding: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Well... I have no GPU utilization (like in zero, nada, zilch), with any output formats that I tried. No point in posting the pic here, GPU it's not used at all.

Also CPU utilization is at 80% and memory is not utilized at full capability ( as a 64 bit program would do).

How is everyone's else experience? Is this just false advertising?

[lata]

Hi SoNic67

Its not a question of anyone not bothering to reply to your question.
http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php ... 46#p298046

We are volunteers here not Corel employees, we do try to answer all questions, yep some will get past the net, that’s life. Being the weekend I was busy with other things…….

Whether your GPU is fully utilised is dependent on the type of video files being used, some highly compressed formats may be hard to encode, although I am not saying that the program works 100%.

You don’t give any details of your video files so we cannot comment on that?
You do show the Proxy Files set to 1920 x 1080 so I assume your files are greater than that maybe 4K

If you believe that Video Studio is not using hardware acceleration to its full then maybe you should contact Corel for their comments, they have a Facebook account that is staffed by Corel employees.

As for my experiences, I have a relatively old pc so any acceleration is not gonna move things much faster, but I do notice the difference when using different video formats.
If I get real time rendering then that’s pretty good irrespective of acceleration.

[SoNic67]

Trevor, thanks for your reply. I know that is a user forum, I wasn't demanding an answer, that would be stupid, it was just a side-comment about the fact that those forums don't seem to be very animated... Maybe use of "bother" was not very fortunate in that case.

I want to find out if is anyone that can say: "yes, my GPU is utilized, and those are my specs". GPU type, file type...
Because for me it never works, GPU-Z shows zero utilization in any test I did. CPU does not use memory more than 2GB, almost like a 32 bit program.

[asik1]

I took the plunge , I took sample SP-V01 added bubble and cloud FX and this is what I got rendering to same profile.
GPU load vary from 2-18%

[SoNic67]

Thanks for the time.
Hmm, what format did you output? I see something like MPEG4?
Also, I didn't have any effects, what effect was that - maybe that was using the GPU...