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About hardware acceleration
I was having trouble on twin machines with CS4 installed.
Both have these specs:
Intel P4 3.2 Ghz asus P4C800-de mobo, Nvidio FX 5700le video cards
3GB ram.I read in an adobe Helpfile about trouble shooting display problems that I should turn off hardware acceleration.
That seems to have cured my problems. Myself and a few posters here thought the trouble was related to capturing with Canopus DVStorm2 card and Scenalyzer which would use a canopus codec.
That turned out not to be the problem at all and Premiere CS4 handles those clips just fine with acceleration turned off.
Now finally a question: Is it normal for machines with those specs to need to have acceleration turned off? It wasn’t clear from the adobe helpfile if it was just a trouble shooting tool to turn it off or if it needs to be off for CS4 tools to work.
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I’m going to hazard a guess here that the hardware — or rather the software that makes the hardware work (the drivers) are not compatible with the Adobe products you are trying to use.
First solution is to look for an update from Adobe that sill support what you have installed. Failing that, ask the hardware company if they have a specific driver for Adobe’s applications (because some hardware manufacturers do that). Last step should be to turn off hardware acceleration and let the Adobe applications just deal with it.
Remember, hardware is a moving target. Adobe is not Avid and they don’t have a “closed box” with known variables. So some things may not work.
If you really need the hardware acceleration for other applications, you might consider setting up a dual-boot system. That way, if you’re using the Adobe applications, you boot up without the drivers that cause problems and for the other applications, you boot with drivers that enhance the hardware.
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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