Mojave fcpx egpu support

[Craig Alan]

Steps to take to update with safety:

Check with vendors for any plug-ins I have in FCP X.

Clone my current system (which includes the current FCP X App)

Keep camera card copies of all my projects along with their current edited state in FCP X (all of which are on external drives)

Do a clean install of the latest OS.

All this said, You posted this 9-26-18.

What’s the word now.
I’ve read positive report on updating on other FCP X Forums but negative reports here.

Imacs (i7), Canon C300, Canon 5D Mark IV, Panasonic ENG HPX250P, , FCP X, teach video production in L.A., Cool Light Productions, Producing series of multimedia Portraits of creative women in the production arts.

[Michael Hadley]

Anyone have experience with the Sonnet eGFX box and the AMD Vega 64 Frontier 16gb card? Thinking seriously about it for my full top spec 2017 iMac which crashes frequently due to “GPU Issues” (at least according to Digital Rebellions crash log thingie).

Current card is Radeon Pro 580 8GB.

Thoughts? Thanks.

[Joe Marler]

[Michael Hadley] “my full top spec 2017 iMac which crashes frequently due to “GPU Issues” (at least according to Digital Rebellions crash log thingie).”

I’ve also had many GPU-related crashes on a 2017 i7 iMac when adding several color corrections in FCPX when the scopes are up. That was 10.4.1 and 10.4.2 on High Sierra 10.13.4, material was 8-bit 4:2:0 4k H264 100 mbps from Sony Alpha, Panasonic GH5 and DVX200 cameras. However I was always in proxy mode so it was really editing ProRes.

It should never do that. I’ve since switched my heavy work to my iMac Pro which doesn’t crash under the same conditions so I haven’t had time to re-evaluate the iMac after upgrading to Mojave, FCXP 10.4.4 and Pro Video Formats 2.0.7.

Maybe the eGPU would help but FCPX shouldn’t be crashing in the first place. Below is a representative call stack from one of my FCPX crashes.

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff6f494b6e __pthread_kill + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff6f65f080 pthread_kill + 333
2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff6f3f01ae abort + 127
3 libGPUSupportMercury.dylib 0x00007fff5ffec0f1 gpusGenerateCrashLog + 168
4 com.apple.AMDRadeonX4000GLDriver 0x000000010e4fdf2b gpusKillClientExt + 9
5 libGPUSupportMercury.dylib 0x00007fff5ffed4d6 gpusSubmitDataBuffers + 184
6 com.apple.AMDRadeonX4000GLDriver 0x000000010e4d5332 glrATI_Hwl_SubmitPacketsWithToken + 154
7 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff523bda2c CAOpenGLLayerDraw(CAOpenGLLayer*, double, CVTimeStamp const*, unsigned int) + 1985
8 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff523bd073 -[CAOpenGLLayer _display] + 565
9 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff5235d973 CA::Layer::display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 633
10 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff5235d431 CA::Layer::layout_and_display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 35
11 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff5235c434 CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*) + 326
12 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff5235bfe1 CA::Transaction::commit() + 487
13 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff44ec0a72 __65+[CATransaction(NSCATransaction) NS_setFlushesWithDisplayRefresh]_block_invoke + 283
14 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4704c467 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 23
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4704c38f __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 527
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4702e908 __CFRunLoopRun + 1240
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4702e1a3 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 483
18 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff46316d96 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 286
19 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff46316b06 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 613
20 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff46316884 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 64
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff445c9a73 _DPSNextEvent + 2085
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff44d5fe34 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 3044
23 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff445be885 -[NSApplication run] + 764
24 com.apple.LunaKit 0x000000010a43d2ad LKApplicationMain + 365
25 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff6f344015 start + 1

[Michael Hadley]

Thanks for the info.

Perhaps it’s the scopes and the AMD 580 card–as you don’t have the problem with your iMac Pro. I wonder if the eGPU with/AMD Vega 64 will solve the issue.

But we both agree: this shouldn’t be an issue. Really not doing anything to taxing with FCPX and iMac so it shouldn’t be crashing.