8-core Mac Pro crash

[Bastiaan Houtkooper nsc]

I think you should post your setup and configuration before anyone can say something useful…..

Resolve system:
MacPro 8 core 2010 – 16B memory
9TB harddisk (1 system disk, 8TB in software raid 0 for data)
Nvidea GTX285
Nvidea GT120
Blackmagic SDI Decklink
RedRocketcard.
Tangent Wave panel
Transvideo 15″ Cinemontor Evolution

Also running it on a MacBook Pro 17″ (5.2)

[Robin]

Resolve system:
MacPro 2×2.4GHz Quad-core 2010 – 6GB memory
4TB harddisk (1 system disk, 2TB for data)
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
27″ LED Cinema Display

[Margus Voll]

Ati does not have cuda support.

This is why it crashes i guess.
You can use ati for gui but no processing unit in your config.

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Paul Jay]

Indeed, you need a CUDA card.
Nvidia GTX285 or quadro FX 4000

RTFM:
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/downloads/davinci/pdf/DaVinciResolveMacConfigGuide.pdf

[Robert Pitman]

While waiting for my GPU’s I tried a ATI only setup and when I clicking on a R3D in the browser Resolve would crash. I knew not to do this, but I have issues with waiting 🙁

Also I found that once I had the GT120 and REDrocket I could load and work with RED footage, but once I added a blur to anything it would turn the image into digital colour craziness. Remove the blur and all was good.

Mac modded Overclocked GTX285 is working perfectly in the system! I have another four GTX285’s, now all I need is the money/reason for a PCI expander.

Cheers,
Robert

[Sascha Haber]

Yeah , the ATI card lets you open the app, warns a couple of times (who are we to listen to that 🙂 and then shows the nice interface.
thats how far I came on the imac too.
But as soon as any image processing is needed it just crumpled away.
I made the mistake to sell my ATI 5770 and not waited for the Quadro 4000.
I am ok with the GT120+GTX285 in Resolve, but for everything else, I suspect the ATi 5770+Q4000 is the much better combo.
I wonder if I could switch the GT120 for another one slot no power needed nVidia card.

A slice of color…

DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE

[Robin]

Looks like I’ll have to get a Quadro 4000 🙂 thanks guys.

BTW, for those of you who own a Quadro 4000, does it also accelerate encoding to H.264?

[Andrae Palmer]

Robin,

I get this error when trying to export out to H.264 from a Mac Pro 12 core with Quadro 4000:

H.264 Encoding on Mac32 doesn’t support resolution beyond 1440×1080
https://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=55009

Andrae Palmer
Producer
FACETMEDIA LLC
https://www.facetmedia.com