How do I enable hardware acceleration feature in CyberLink PowerDirector?

CyberLink PowerDirector supports hardware acceleration (effect processing, hardware decoding and encoding) with AMD/NVDIA/Intel graphics cards.

Please ensure you download and install the latest drivers from AMD/NVIDIA/Intel’s web site, and any related hardware acceleration software, for your computer's graphics card to enable this feature in CyberLink PowerDirector.

With hardware acceleration feature enabled, PowerDirector allows you to:

1. Hardware decoding

For PowerDirector 365 (starting from Jan. 2025), to enable this feature, go to [Preferences] > [Performance] > [Enable hardware decoding]. Select this option to use hardware acceleration to decode the video during the editing process.

For PowerDirector 2025 and previous versions, to enable this feature, go to [Preferences] > [Hardware acceleration] > [Enable hardware decoding].

2. Hardware encoding

To enable this feature in previous versions of PowerDirector (e.g., PowerDirector 20, 21, etc.), go to [Produce] > [Fast video rendering technology] > enable [Hardware video encoder].

For PowerDirector 365 and 2025, go to [Export] > [Advanced] > enable [Hardware encoding].

If your computer supports hardware acceleration, you can enable this feature to speed up rendering and burning time. Every graphics card that supports hardware encoder supports different output profiles.

If you’ve encountered any issues when editing or producing videos in PowerDirector with GPU hardware acceleration (hardware decoder/encoder), we suggest you update your GPU driver to the latest version from your GPU manufacturer.  If this doesn’t resolve the issues, you may consider de-selecting the hardware acceleration options to use software decoding/encoding (CPU decoding/encoding) instead when editing videos in PowerDirector. 

If you require further technical assistance regarding the above steps, please contact CyberLink Customer Support and we will help you out.