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Does Mercury Engine work with ATi Cards?
Hi,
I have been using the trial of CS5 after the promises of the mercury playback engine however I am getting very confused as to this works.
I was under the impression that anyone with a decent graphics card would receive benefit from the Mercury Playback Engine because it uses the GFX card to accelerate the workload.
This does not seem to be the case and it will not work with my ATI 4870. In fact performance seems no better than CS4.
Can you guys please help me understand the following:
Questions
- What graphics cards work with Mercury Playback Engine?
- If you do not have a compatible card does it mean that you also cannot see the benefits of the GPU acceleration in Photoshop and Flash?
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2 Replies
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It currently uses the Nvidia Cuda, with ati cards you just get the MPE software advantage no GPU.
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James, your questions have been answered several times already in this Premiere forum.
Adobe have certified certain GFX cards to take advantage of the nVidia CUDA technology. (emphasis on nVidia CUDA technology) Search around this forum and you will find the list on many posts or, alternatively, simply go to Adobe’s website.
ATI cards do not qualify.
However, all is not lost. I do not have a qualifying GFX card myself at the moment but I can vouch for the fact that CS5 is MUCH quicker and smoother and capable of more real-time layers even without the CUDA based cards. (I suppose it does help that I have an iCore PC – but the benefits are there nonetheless.)
My advice is, spend some time browsing the forum for the answers you seek. Cow is a fantastic knowledge base with many talented users contributing frequently and in an expert capacity.
But you need to do a little spade work of your own too.
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