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Hi David, For desktop computers werecommend NVIDIA Geforce 1060 which will be enough for future versions of PicturesToExe during many years. Personally I have two Gigabyte NVIDIA Geforce 1060 WindForce 3GB which work absolutely silent (fans start only in heavy 3D games). My colleagues have Geforce 1050 which is also very good video card. I don't have Windows laptop so I can't recommend certain models. I only highly recommend to choose a modern laptop with NVIDIA Geforce for the best results in PicturesToExe 9. Future version of PicturesToExe will offer hardware accelerated video encoding (works in 4-5 times faster than CPU encoding) and it will work only on recent NVIDIA video cards (introduced since 2013).

Cor, Thanks for the confirmation. I'm glad. Please only remember that it's an experimental version. I'm sure that it will work correctly, but it's a serious change in the code and it requires long testing. We would prefer to include it officially to the future version 10.0. Several months of beta-testing will prove that everything is OK.

Hi Jill, Thanks, I will check your project today.

Cor, Try a new test version: https://files.wnsoft.com/test/picturestoexe-setup-4gb.exe

PicturesToExe 9.0.15 is available: Now PicturesToExe 9 works faster on laptops with dual graphics (Intel + NVIDIA). Dedicated NVIDIA video card is used by default for the main window of PicturesToExe, in the Objects and animation editor, and in created EXE shows. This improvement provides more smooth playback of animation and effects. Fixed problem with hanging of presentations on macOS Sierra and High Sierra if a project contains non-animated GIF images. Fixed problem with missing Animated GIFs as additional images in a custom transition.

Cor, Ignore any such errors in PteViewer5.exe or in created EXE files, because they still are limited by 2GB. Only PicturesToExe (itself) is 4 GB. I will send you another test version tomorrow.

Cor, Try this experimental version of PTE 9. It allows to use up to 4 GB of memory. How it works on your computer? https://files.wnsoft.com/test/picturestoexe-setup-4gb.exe Usual version could use only 2GB.

Cor, We discussed a similar problem several days ago. Is it same project or another? Can you send me this project? I will send you special test version of PTE soon.

Cor, I extracted several posts from this topic to a new topic here

Cor, Try first version 9.0.0: https://files.wnsoft.com//test/picturestoexe-setup-900.exe

Cor, OK, I will test again on our new laptop on Monday. Version 9.0.15 BETA adds only 3 small changes in the code. Can you try the following, if you have a laptop with dual graphics (Intel + NVIDIA): 1. Install previous PTE 9.0.14. 2. Click right mouse button on a shortcut with PTE 9.0.14 to call the popup menu. 3. There should be an sub-menu to choose a video card for this application - run on Intel or NVIDIA card. Try both variants and compare results. If you manually choose NVIDIA card for PTE 9.0.14 - it gives exactly same result as PTE 9.0.15 BETA does automatically.

Denis, Thanks for the confirmation! I'm glad. Barry, I will check on Monday. As I undestood it depends on chosen power mode (best performance or power saving). By default, new laptops with dual graphics always use Intel slow graphics for all 3D applications even if it's connected to power supply. I observed this on a new unboxed laptop yesterday. There is an official solution (API call) to force laptop use fast NVIDIA graphics. PTE 9 now requests access to fast NVIDIA graphics, even if it works from battery. Many 3D games do the same. Of course, users always can assign manually certain application for fast (NVIDIA) or slow (Intel) video card. This choice has the highest priority and overwrites other options.

Cor, Thanks, This version contains only a small change - two options which "tell" to NVDIA and AMD to use second powerful video card in laptops with dual graphics. That's all. It should not cause any problem if compare with previous version. Users always could do same choosing manually powerful video card for PTE in NVIDIA Control panel (or AMD control panel). We tested on a laptop with Intel + NVIDIA graphics. With good results. We'll test on a laptop with AMD on Monday. Please check memory usage in Task Manager. Try different projects (from simple to complex). And if it possible compare with previous v9.0.14 again.

Gary, Animation in PTE 9 (and created EXE files) works better (smoother) on faster video card. Now PTE 9 uses NVIDIA video card by default on laptops with dual graphics (Intel + NVIDIA). So you should observe more smooth animations in PTE shows on these laptops.

Hi, If you have a laptop with dual graphics card (Intel + NVIDIA) please try a new test version of PicturesToExe 9.0.15 BETA: https://files.wnsoft.com/test/picturestoexe-setup.exe It should greatly improve smoothness of animations. Because this update automatically forces PTE 9 to use dedicated NVIDIA video card instead of slow Intel video card. This improvement affects: - Preview in the main window of PTE 9; - Objects and animation editor. - Playback of EXE shows.

Gary, This update doesn't affect to playback of video clips in EXE shows. (we hope to improve it in future major version). However smoothness of animations (images) should be much better on laptops with dual video cards.

Manuel, So it seems that ZIP archives don't support this symbol?

Denis, Please try new test version - PTE 9.0.15 BETA https://files.wnsoft.com/test/picturestoexe-setup.exe Now PicturesToExe 9 (main window) and created EXE files should work on fast dedicated video card in laptops with dual graphics. Currently it works for Intel + NVIDIA video cards. We didn't check for Intel + AMD / AMD + AMD video cards.

Can you send me a sample folder (with non-latin letters) which cause this problem in PTE? I will check it. Use Windows Explorer to create a ZIP archive.

Manuel, "?" means that PTE didn't recognized some symbols in a folder name or in a file name. Check your screenshots above. Usually it should not happen with European languages. PTE 9 should work correctly with non-latin letters.

Manuel, On some screenshots I see errors. A symbol "?" appears in file paths ("? ARCH MUR", etc). And for this reason PTE can't load projects. Try to use folders and files only with latin names. Will it help?

Ron, Thanks for this information! I'm glad that you solved that problem.

Denis, Right now I'm trying to apply the new code for PTE to force use fast NVIDIA/AMD card instead of Intel. Please wait for the updated version.

Ron, Check for updated version of VMWare. Then try to install VMWare tools/drivers for a virtual machine. Check settings of a virtual machine to make sure that it uses GPU (hardware acceleration for 3D) and enought video memory. Also it may be a temporary problem, while High Sierra is indexing your Mac after the upgrade of macOS.

Denis, Does this problem occur if you copy same objets from a custom transition to an usual slide? I still can't reproduce this proble, I checked on a laptop with Intel Core M CPU (Lenovog Yoga 2) and on iMac 4K Retina with Windows 10 and Intel Iris Pro 6200 graphics. We think that this problem is related with incorrect work of certain Intel video card with highest values of screen coordinates. 50'000% in this case for Pan X.