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frustration with PP CC, CUDA, iMac with GTX 660M
Hi –
I am (or I thought I was) well versed in hacking the “cuda_supported_cards.txt” file to get the NVidia GeForce and Quadro cards to work with Adobe Premiere CC and Adobe Premiere CS6. I have done this successfully with everything from a GTX 680 to most recently a GTX 675MX in an iMac.SO – I am on this iMac running OS X 10.8.4 with an NVidia GeForce GTX 660M. I enter GeForce GTX 660M into the cuda supported cards text file, and I can’t get the GPU activated in Project Settings> General> Renderer – it will not select the Mercury Playback Engine GPU. I reload the NVidia CUDA driver V5.0.61 for OS X 10.8.4, reboot, and still, NO SUPPORT in Premiere CC for GPU.
Anyone have any ideas of why this is not working (yet this exact process works for other models of Nvidia cards ?).
Thanks –
Bob ZelinBob Zelin
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[Bob Zelin] “SO – I am on this iMac running OS X 10.8.4 with an NVidia GeForce GTX 660M.”
Premiere Pro requires at least 896MB of VRAM on the GPU [link] for hardware acceleration to work.
That iMac’s GTX 660M has only 512MB.
It’ll never work. This specific iMac is too cheap for hardware acceleration.
Walter Soyka
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God, I love Creative Cow. Walter, THANK YOU, I was going out of my mind with this.
But I went to the link, with the chart on the bottom. I don’t see where you determined the
exact amount of RAM on the GTX 660M. Is this on the link, or do you have another source for this
info.Thanks –
Bob ZelinBob Zelin
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[Bob Zelin] “God, I love Creative Cow. Walter, THANK YOU, I was going out of my mind with this. “
You’re welcome!
[Bob Zelin] “But I went to the link, with the chart on the bottom. I don’t see where you determined the exact amount of RAM on the GTX 660M. Is this on the link, or do you have another source for this info. “
The link showed my source for the 896 MB minimum VRAM factoid.
Here are the iMac tech specs [link]. You can verify with Apple > About this Mac > System Report > Displays tab.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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I just installed a gtx 650 in my mac pro (needed a single slot card to make room for decklink 4k hdmi expander) and just launched premiere pro cc and am able to select cuda processing on renderer/playback pulldown. this card is not on their approved list. do I still need to do the hack? or does the fact that cuda gpu shows up mean that it recognizes it?
thanks
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never mind, just saw this:
Also, some customers may be aware that in the past there was a not-so-secret way of enabling non-supported GPUs by the ‘hacking’ or removal of a text file. This is no longer necessary in Premiere Pro CC. As long as you have a reasonably modern card with at least 1GB of VRAM, you will still be able to enable that card in the Project Settings dialog. A warning message will appear letting you know that your card has not been certified by Adobe, but once that dialog is clicked through you can use your GPU.
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