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Setting up Premier Pro for Max Performance
I am having major issues with Blue screen crashes when using Premier Pro in CS5 and now in CS6. From my other posts you can see the history. I think there are so many settings that I have no idea what they mean that I need help figuring out the best way to set up and use Premier as well as the Mercury Playback NVIDIA GEFORCE 285 video Card and my sound settings. Something is creating a conflict in my system that Adobe cannot figure out. Any posts out there to help set up the machine?
Charlie
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Hi Charles,
I have not seen your previous posts, so I apologize in advance for possibly repeating what you already know. If this is a new clean installation, and I mean clean from a blank drive, then this likely has nothing to do with Premiere, but simply with the fact that Premiere is pushing your machine more than any other application, thus why you only notice the crashes with Premiere. Blues screens are very rarely link to software issues on clean installs. I have not seen a blue screen on our PCs in the last year +.
Defective hardware such as RAM or CPU are a possibility. I would pull out all the sticks and Run Premiere with just one and see if things improve. The other possibility is heat, especially if this is homebuilt.
Heat either on the CPU on the GPU. That’s easy enough top monitor with speed fan, or Coretemp.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I want to take any advice I can get so I am listening carefully. Polywell built the machine last year, has a pretty good fan I thought. These crashes happen sometimes right after I turn on system. I tested all my Ram and found a bad stick, replaced it and still have the issue.
I did get some relief for a day when I changed a setting in the NVIDIA Control Panel. If there is a way for you to search my history there is a novel out there. I have been dealing with this for 5 months and have a film I am trying to complete…
Appreciate all help possible.“easy enough top monitor with speed fan, or Coretemp” did not know what this meant…..
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Speedfan is a free software that let you monitor temperature in different areas of your computer, including the CPU and your NVidia card GPU.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Thanks. Once it is running do I just leave it alone or do I need to read it and analyze the data it gives me?
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You will see right away if your temps are above normal.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
GPU 60C Flame, System 51C Flame, CPU 51C Flame, Local 59C Flame, Remote 2 53C Flame,
Do I run the Auto an speed? Or what do I do about it….
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If this is idle, you may have an airflow issue, although it depends on the room temparature. How high do they get during render? I wouldn’t mess with Speedfan settings, there are too many configurations, but you can check those against your hardware specs for min max temperature. One more thing on your crashing troubleshooting, unplug every connected devices except what you absolutely need, I had a bad USB stick crashing my system once.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
What I meant was there is an automatic fan Speed button I can click. I did not know what you meant by if this is idle? Do you mean are they changing much? Answer is no….
I did try something else tonight. I turned off all indexing on the hard drives I use for Premier, I notice a little faster operation and no more delay when I switch to email program for a moment…
Gonna turn in and get some sleep, please give me as much as you can and check back on me…i appreciate all the help!
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[Charles Cunliffe] “What I meant was there is an automatic fan Speed button I can click. I did not know what you meant by if this is idle? Do you mean are they changing much? Answer is no….”
Idle means the computer is not actively running any programs.
He is giving good advice. You likely have a hardware problem of some kind. If the machine is still under warranty you should get the vendor involved.
Good Luck,
Robert -
If you just need to work and get your project done, you could probably buy a $600 desktop PC and work fine.
I have a 3 year old i7-920 with 27GB of RAM, low end GT 430 video card, 3 HDD’s that runs fine. I am in eth middle of upgrading that to a GTX 560 video card,, RAID 0 2x2TB HDD.s SSD scratch disk, etc.
I also have a $350 i3 laptop with 8GB of RAM and a single 500 GB HDD that runs CSD6 Production Premium with no problem.
I never dreamed of running CS6 on the laptop, as it was only for web/word processing/etc. But I have actually edited a few projects with no problem. Including Multi Camera, etc.
I know you want to get your machine right, and of course that is something you need to do eventually. But if your project is teh most important thing, watch techbargains.com for a good deal on an off-the-shelf i7 desktop. I added 24GB of RAM from Newegg for $180, you can get a GTX550 Ti video card for $120 or so, you should be good to go for a while.
I have never had a crash on either of my machines, evr. They are very, very rare in Win 7.
Good luck!
Michael
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