NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

[Jim Swinson]

I decided to make the move to Mac last year after installing Windows 8 on my system and after about 30 minutes of using it formatted and went back to Windows 7. At that moment I made the decision if that was the way Microsoft was going with Windows I had no choice but to move to the dark side. It had been a couple of years since I had built an editing station and I was having lots of issues with Windows 7 like blue screens, updates screwing things, adobe crashing it. Lots of issue and I had finally had enough. I spent my $4k on on my iMac and up until Yosemite came out I was thinking the old saying “once you go MAC you never go back” was true. Now i’m not so sure. I don’t think Windows 10 will be any better but I’m pretty much stuck for another 2 years. I really do love my iMac and OSX and up until last year was one of those that swore a PC and Windows was the way to go and when I moved over found out what I had been missing. If they could get this one issue solved I think for most including myself everything else is fine. i actually cringe when thinking of going back now but I got to say with this current issue it has crossed my mind.

[Brian Cooney]

yes I wonder if it’s just trading one problem for another. I’ve never edited on PC so I don’t know.

Head of Post Production, Coca-Cola Studios Atlanta, GA. Telly Award Winning Editor and Motion Gfx Artist.

[Jim Swinson]

Yeah I was a Windows fanboy but I started to add up all the troubleshooting I did over a year with hardware issues, blue screens, update issues, random crashing with the OS and also Adobe, having to format to just about fix every issue and then a week later another one would pop up. I was running a nvidia quadro 4000 card and it had a lot of issue on the PC. I added up I was wasting several days per month just fixing my system. Moved to Mac and up until Yosemite everything was pretty good. I’m just hoping this is not a sign Apple is going the opposite direction now. I guess at this point we don’t know if it’s Apple, Adobe or Nvidia to blame so i’m holding judgement.

[John Vargo]

I have been a Mac user for a long time, and I will say this: Yosemite is very uncharacteristic for Apple. Most OS upgrades have been relatively solid. Yosemite is the first time I’ve been really disappointed with Apple.

No matter, I rolled my iMac back to Mavericks and its as fast and reliable as it always has been.

Next I need to find the time to roll back my Macbook Pro.

[Ze’ev Gilad]

nvidia just released a new CUDA driver: https://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-7.0.29-driver.html

!!!

[Brian Vawter]

I installed the latest CUDA driver Version: 7.0.29 and initially I thought it solved the problem , but alas, the graphic artifacts reappeared and I’ve had several crashes. To be fair I am working on a graphic intensive sequence with up to 8 layers, some nested, but I’ve done that in the past, BY (before Yosemite).
I really am thinking about going back to Mavericks, Any thoughts?

[Jim Swinson]

This has gotten to the point where I just can’t get anything done. This has to be a Nvidia CUDA issue considering a lot of us are running different versions of mac hardware and all having issues. Not only that but I can’t run Resolve, Final Cut Pro X, Speed Grade, or Premiere Pro without any of them crashing within a couple of minutes. Can anyone running Mavericks and utilizing CUDA verify that they are having any issue or at least is it minimal with Mavericks. This is the first time I have ever been in the position where I can’t just switch to a different editing program or change out a computer part to fix an issue and get things done.

[David Roth weiss]

I’m running under Mavericks with a GTX 690 Mac Edition, and all seems good. I am having a very strange issue that doesn’t affect editing however – if I turn off computer monitor #1 the cooling fans in my Mac will suddenly start to spin at about a zillion mph. But, as soon as o hit the power switch to turn it back on the fans return to normal operation. I’ve never encountered that before, and have no logical explanation for it, but since everything else seems to be just fine I’m not going to worry about it now.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

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

[Jim Swinson]

Thanks for responding. I might just have to format and go back to Mavericks then. I really don’t have any other options.

[David Roth weiss]

I would definitely do a ground up reinstall with Mavericks. Then, if you wind up with a working system, make sure to clone it to a FireWire drive, and keep that on the shelf for safety. And, before doing upgrades or updates you’ll have a way to get back up and running in minutes.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

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