• Adobe After Effects

  Do I need the CUDA toolkit or just the plug-in?

  Posted by Ian Dillon on March 16, 2014 at 3:34 am

  I just got a new MacBook Pro and After Effects (and Premiere) Creative Cloud. I opened up After Effects and it wants CUDA. On the NVIDIA website I have the choice of just the CUDA plug-in (v5.5.47), or the toolkit (on another page of their website).
  Do I need the toolkit?

  Thanks in advance,
  Ian

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  Ridley Walker replied 12 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mike Sevigny

  March 16, 2014 at 2:11 pm

  hey Ian,
  what do you mean by ‘it wants CUDA’?
  what’s the exact error/warning message?

  Typically you just go to Edit>Preferences>Previews
  Click on GPU Information and switch it from CPU to GPU

  I’m not on a MAC, but I did find this
  How To Enable GPU Cuda in Adobe CS6 for Mac
  https://www.vidmuze.com/how-to-enable-gpu-cuda-in-adobe-cs6-for-mac/

  On PC you can just add your video card to
  raytracer_supported_cards.txt
  in your ‘support files’ directory.

  As for the drivers you should have them up to date and Nvidia’s tools can help you delegate the GPU to AE and elsewhere. Mac may work differently.

  Mike Sevigny
  TorusFX Inc.
  https://vimeo.com/channels/mikesevigny/
  https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-sevigny/49/875/495
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  Ridley Walker

  March 16, 2014 at 3:04 pm

  You need the CUDA plug-in.

  It installs the current CUDA driver and a System preference pane that can check for and install driver updates.

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