Is the HP Z820 Workstation Class Machine…

[Duke Sweden]

I’ll check it out. Yeah, I figured I’m really not gonna be playing with this until late tonight or tomorrow. I forgot I also have to install winrar and a whole bunch of other minor utility apps and such. Have to download Quicktime, etc.

Thanks for the info, I’ll probably get into the BIOS after I’ve installed everything.
Cheers!

[Duke Sweden]

ok, here’s an easier question (I’ll do the BIOS thing later). Just got Premiere Pro installed, clicked on New Project, and Video Rendering and Playback is grayed out to Mercury Playback Engine Software Only. Why would I not have access to CUDA?

[Joseph W. bourke]

Is your graphics card on the list of Adobe certified CUDA cards?

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[David Roth weiss]

Because you must update your Nvidia driver to the latest “web driver,” and you must install the Cuda driver separately as well.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Duke Sweden]

Correction, FX4800
HP Nvidia Quadro FX4800 1.5GB PCI-e Dual Display Port + 1 DVI Video Card

[Duke Sweden]

THanks, Dave. Joe, my graphics card is not on the list, but I was at NVidia a few minutes ago and I don’t see an X 4800 card listed.

[Joseph W. bourke]

Not having the spec for the card, or the full name, I’m not sure. But I think you said way back in the discussion that it was an Nvidia Quadro FX4800 card. On the HP site, here’s the driver:

https://h20564.https://www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=3794263

That said, you probably want to get it directly from Nvidia, so a search with the full correct name should get it.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Joseph W. bourke]

Bingo Zingo! I think I found it:

https://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-win7-winvista-64bit-259.57-whql-driver.html

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Duke Sweden]

Thanks Joe, but you should really take some Remedial Link Classes 😉 That didn’t work either. Yeah, I’ll try searching for that card specifically because it’s not in their dropdown list. Moving along swiftly, down to my last Adobe app, then on to the plugins, then update drivers, BIOS, and done!

[Duke Sweden]

Hey Joe, I used NVidia’s java based driver detector and found a more recent version. Installing it and the CUDA driver now.