Recent content by Stephen Bull

After years of not joining the SSD club, I finally bought a Samsung Evo 850. I Tried to clone my existing drive, but failed due to a corrupt sector (on my HDD I assume) Not to worry, put it into my Dell Optiplex 930 SFF. Installed Windows 7, but then it would hang. The Drive activity light...

I think i have solved it, it was nothing to do with the catalyst drivers, it is simply the first time I fire up Premiere pro the error message appears and the OpenCL option is not availiabe in the project render settings. If I then close it down and load premiere pro up again, the message...

Thanks for taking the time. to respond. I always thought CUDA was the only way to accelaration, but after a bit of reasearch, apparently Adobe and AMD are getting very cosy and OpenCL is the Radeon version and it works very well. Well, I have made another discovery. I fired up my PC today and...

Can I get OpenCL GPU acceleration with Premiere pro (Win8 64-bit) without having Eyefinity turned on ? With Eyefinity turned OFF, Premiere says GPU acceleration not available and resorts to Software only. Having eyefinity on is annoying because I have two screens and all dialog boxes appear...

Well I tried it, and so far have been playing skyrim for several hours now on Ultra High with no problems so far. Fingers crossed. A simple fixs. Thanks for passing that on.

No, I always did express install....Will try that right away

I assume you are talking about the Nvidia drivers. I have un-installed them (never sure if i am supposed to do them in a certain order or not). Then i go to the Nvidia site and get the latest ones. is this the correct way of doing it ?

I have Windows 8.1 and am using a Nvidia GTX 650ti (1gb) . My PC has 16gb Ram and an AMD FX850. Plenty of Omph (for what i need). I can run my PC all day and all night, rendering, photoshop, encoding etc. and it doesn't give any problems at all. Can be rendering a video in Premiere pro, whilst...

Thanks everyone for the input. Went for the 8350 in the end. All built (3hrs) and running perfectly. Did a quick test on Handbrake comparing to my old system, and re-encoding a 1h45min film took 33 mins on my new system whilst my old one took 1 hr 45 minutes. This is all at standard settings...

Thanks for the advice. Never heard of XFX or Seasonic (who seem to use the same kit from what i am reading) before. Thanks for the info. Will stick to 16GB for the time being. At least i can go up to 32GB if need be (Mind you 4GB 5 years ago seemed extravagant). An SSD will be the first...

Was looking at the Fractal R4 really love the design, but it has a door which opens on the left hand side and my PC sits on the right hand side. That would annoy me (Although I can't see me having to access the DVD very often), would have loved to have the option to either remove or change the...

Have my finger poised over the BUY button to upgrade my system bought 5 years and 2 months ago and never had a days problem with it despite being on 3+ hours every day (6+ on weekends) Currently: Inter Q6600 quad Core (Stock cooler) 4gb Ram (max – reason for upgrade) Nvidia GTX 650ti...

Well, made some progress. After changing the ower and permissions of the EXE file, I was able to rename it to DUFF_VBC.EXE. Rebooted the PC only to discovber now a file called CVTRES.EXE was now maxing out my PC....grrr ! Again, changed the owner to me and then the permissions and I was able...

VBC.exe*32 is constantly running at 100% slowing my Windows 7 PC down Re-boot in safe mode not there, run in normal mode it starts up (no messages or anything). Can't see anything in MSCONFIG that relates to this. Can't stop the process as it starts immediately again.it is located in...