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Gogs, Laptops for gamers with single NVIDIA video card (for example, Geforce 1060) do NOT have this problem. Advice: you can use Device Manager in a computer shop to check Video card tab to see if it really has only single video card (no Intel graphics). Usually all other laptops with Geforce 1050, 1030, 920M, or other Geforce models have dual graphics: NVIDIA + Intel. These laptops with Windows 10 are affected by this problem. All laptops with AMD graphics are NOT affected. Just I recommend to choose powerful models with fast graphics, and if it possible check EXE shows or PTE in such laptop before you purchase it. All desktop computers (NVIDIA or AMD) are NOT affected. My personal choice.

I know users who show animated panoramic JPEG images (15000 x 1440) in PTE 9 without any problems. One image is only 86 MB in system memory. Good luck!

Kev, Thanks for the details. PTE and other apps always unpack JPEGs to bitmaps in system memory. So 15000 x 30000 in RGBA format = 1.8 GB. Of course, PTE loads optimized reduced image if output size if small (thumbnails). But anyway loading of such images is painfully slow. Even in PTE 10. I created two JPEGs at 15K x 30K and they worked in PTE 10 (with slow loading). I believe that it's possible to optimize your images in Photoshop according kind of planned animation (panning, zooming, etc). For example, if you use only horizontal panning from left to right, simply crop the image keeping only working part. And then resample image size to have a height in pixels around 1080-1440. It would be quite enough for 1080p screens. Also you can split the original panoramic image into 2 or more images, if you plan to change a direction of animation. For example, use 1st image for horizontal panning, and then add 2nd image for zooming. Even PTE 9 will work much faster and better with such optimized images. P.S. PTE 10 Beta will be available for testing soon.

John, Many thanks for all your efforts to help me and other PTE members to solve this problem! I very appreciate it. It's sad that NVIDIA and/or Microsoft work so slow on this issue. Especially if remember that this problem affects at least 2 software products - PTE and Proshow. P.S. I can recover access to your original forum profile if neccessary.

Hi Kev, Future PTE 10 will be 64-bit app, and it will handle very large panorama images. However even PTE 9 should support reasonably large panoramas. Probably you need to optimize a pixel size of images according your target screen. What pixel resolution of your screen? Can you create one sample panorama animation with a reduced pixel size (which works without problems) to demonstrate your idea. I will check if it possible to optimize the images without loss in quality.

Regrettably not yet. I suppose that it's a result of a wrong optimization of power consumption in Windows 10 in laptops with dual graphics. Unlike 3D games PTE doesn't produce high loading of CPU and a video card, thus Windows 10 wrongly reduces speed of a mobile NVIDIA graphics. Probably we could "fix" this problem by adding fake (useless) calculations in CPU and video card to force Windows 10 "think" that PTE need all power of mobile NVIDIA card. I'm really wondered why Microsoft and NVIDIA still didn't fix this problem.

John, Rob wrote in his first message that his video card is Geforce GTX 1060 6GB. I suppose that it's a desktop PC or powerful laptop with single NVIDIA graphics (no Intel dual graphics). So I'm sure that for this task future PTE 10 will work very good. Because PTE 10 handle video clips much better and faster. Proshow will not give you better result. While we're working on PTE 10, please consider output to a HD MP4 video for your project. It will provide smooth playback for your movie. The only limitation - a lack of interactivity which available only in an EXE format.

Please try HandBrake - a free open source video converter from France: https://handbrake.fr/ Personally I also use this great software program. A. If you plan to create a final show as an EXE file: In HandBrake: in Output Settings > Video tab > Video Codec > change "H.264" option to "MPEG-4". You can keep other options by default. It will create a video file optimized for PicturesToExe 9. B. If you plan to create a final movie in a HD file (MP4), keep all settings by default in Handbrake. Just adjust CRF parameter (lower is better quality), try to set CRF = 18.

Probably for video clips with fast motion scenes you may need to increase quality parameter. For video clips with static scenes you can decrease quality. Future PTE 10 will work much better with video. And file size can be smaller with H.264 format after a special optimization.

Jose, Version 9.0.22 just improves a stability of PTE itself. It doesn't affect projects or EXE shows. Yes, you can keep and use together PTE 9 32-bit and new PTE 10 64-bit. No. Traditionally all new versions of PTE can open any projects created/saved in any old version of PTE. For example, old projects created in PTE 5 can be opened directly in PTE 10. I didn't finish this checking yet.

Gary, PTE 9 optimizes video clips for better and faster playback. Not file size. To reduce a file size you can try to slightly reduce Quality parameter in the VideoConverter.

Gary, 60p video usually larger in 1.5-2 times than 30p video (in same video format). More frames - more file size.

Hi, We recommend to install the updated version of PicturesToExe 9.0.22 (published yeasterday) for compatibility with future Windows 10 Update which is planned for April of 2019. In previous versions from 9.0.0 up to 9.0.21 you may see an error message on startup and missing icons in the tree of folders. Microsoft has changed certain API functions for access to icon sets. This problem doesn't appear in created EXE shows. Versions 8.0.x and earlier are not affected.

Gary, File size depends on a video codec (format). For PTE 9 optimal codec is MPEG-4 (Advanced Simple@L1) in AVI file. CPU loading is not high for a playback of a video. But file size is larger. GoPro and other modern cameras record video in H.264 codec (or even H.265 HEVC) which gives smaller file size with same quality. However decoding of H.264 codec requires much more CPU resources. As I wrote earlier, for PTE 10 we used hardware acceleration of a video card and decoding of H.264 videos will not load CPU. So H.264 codec will be optimal for PTE 10. Small file size, fast and smooth playback. No need to convert video file. Or you can use any video convertor to reduce a bitrate (and file size). P.S. Alternate solution for PTE 9 or PTE 10. Create a final video from your project instead of an EXE file. It also solves all problems.

Thanks for the confirmation. We released the official version 9.0.22 today (it's same version which I sent you earlier): Download v9.0.22 here: https://www.wnsoft.com/en/picturestoexe/download/

Hi, I recommend to re-install PicturesToExe 9. It will fix issue with broken file associations and icons.

PicturesToExe 9.0.22 is available: Fixed problem with missing icons in File tree and error message on startup in future Windows 10 v1903. Fixed small problem with File info window for images included as part of a slide style/custom transition.

Please try a new version 9.0.22 Beta: https://files.wnsoft.com/test/picturestoexe-setup.exe It should fix this problem.

I confirm this problem in Windows 10 Insider Preview. We'll fix it soon. Thanks,

My mistake in configuration file, I recently added changes against spam bots. Barry, please check Slideshowclub site again.

Thanks, Barry. I'm working on this problem now.

No worries, I'm glad that you resolved this issue. Alternatively you can drag JPEG images from Windows Explorer window and drop to PicturesToExe window (into the Slide list).

Please describe how exactly you tried to add JPEG images to PicturesToExe project? In the main window of PicturesToExe you can see a tree of folders and list of images. Browse folders and drives to see JPEG images and then add to your project (by double click, or drag and drop images into Slide list below.

Can you check this:

Yes, you need to convert your images to JPEG format for PicturesToExe 9 (or to PNG, if your need lossless quality).