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Hello.

I am trying to run CyberLink PowerDirector in a Windows 7 Ultimate VM. The host is also Windows 7 Ultimate. Cyberlink PowerDirector installs and runs fine in the host machine. I can install it in the VM machine, it runs and opens the default project and then after about a minute crashes to the desktop. If I run PD without installing VirtualBox tools it throws an OpenGL error. If I run it with VB Tools installed (basic 3D) it throws the following error "The instruction at 0x8007b040 referenced memory 0x000000. The memory could not be read." If I run PD with the experimental 3D tools in simply crashes to the desktop without any error message at all.

I've manipulated the various setting in the VB Setting menu but there is no combination of setting I can use that gets PowerDirector to run.

Any help?

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System requirements for PowerDirector: http://www.cyberlink.com/products/power ... en_US.html

Based on the requirements, it doesn't seem likely it will run in a VM.

loukingjr wrote:System requirements for PowerDirector: http://www.cyberlink.com/products/power ... en_US.html

Based on the requirements, it doesn't seem likely it will run in a VM.

Which requirement in specific leads you to that conclusion? I would have thought that it would be the amount of video RAM but at least in theory VB has enough. In any event, I thought that most of the video operations were off-loaded to the host OS's hardware via pass-through.

I do an awfully lot of video editing and to be honest none of the available hypervisors are really able to do this easily once you start to use actual video rendering on the guests screen. I have a good relationship with ffmpeg but that is CLI. If I need to see the actual frames as I edit I just use the host since it has the power to handle it. None of the hypervisor handle the video fast enough or with the full compliment of options to do it properly.