NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Chip,

I edited my original post. Yes this is a known issue and we’re working with our partners to understand the cause.

As of now this appears to be limited to Mac OS and NVIDIA graphics cards.

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Daniel Sametz]

Fix it please.

[Denis Matz]

I’m having the exact same problem since ive upgraded to Yosemite. It seems it only appears when using CUDA acceleration in Premiere. If im using OpenCL, i can work for hours without any problems. Please fix this, Adobe!

[Chip Burns]

While it’s certainly in Adobe’s best interest to see this fixed, I am becoming more and more convinced this is NVIDIA’s problem interacting with OSX.

This program is triggered by Adobe apps but is not limited to them. I have seen these symptoms happen in Google Chrome and even the Finder.

[Patrick Weishampel]

Yes Please! We need a fix. Its crippling. I’ve spent countless hours troubleshooting this issue. I’ve been through 2 Nvidia 680 mac edition cards in the possibility its a hardware issue. At one point swapped it out with an smaller ATi card which then worked fine without the graphics aberations, so I know its not a hardware issue. I still have the Nvidia card though and would like to be able to use it instead of selling it off which I’m about to be forced to do. There must be a fix out there somewhere????

[David Roth weiss]

The issue is clearly with Yosemite, why don’t you simply go back to Mavericks?

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.

[Patrick Weishampel]

Unfortunately I don’t have everything backed up through time machine. Wiping the drive and installing Mavericks seems even more excruciating.

[David Roth weiss]

I’m sorry, but with that attitude you won’t last long in this business. And, no professional should ever install updates on their editing system(s) without first cloning their bout drive.

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.

[Chip Burns]

Just to be clear, this issue is not new with Yosemite — it just become more prevalent with Yosemite.

The bigger issue is that most Macbook Pro’s come pre-loaded with NVIDIA graphics cards and this in conjunction with pre-loaded Yosemite means that all of us that are purchasing Macbook Pro’s for video editing with Premiere are buying computers that do not work properly off the shelf.

The only way I’m able to work off my MBP is to shut off the NVIDIA graphics card altogether. This is obviously not acceptable since the reason I paid more for my particular MBP is to have this graphics card.

[Patrick Weishampel]

Wow David, that was pretty harsh.

But You’re right. I should have had the system backed up through time machine so I could revert back to the previous operating system and I guess I’ve learned the hard way. I had done the upgrade as I was between projects and hadn’t found other people having these issues until I was having them myself. However I don’t think I need extra bashing because of it. I’m simply looking for additional help in trying to solve the issue. Wiping the hard drive and reinstalling everything is my absolute last resort. I will most likely go to an Ati card instead for a short time as I will be migrating to a new machine soon. If my asking either Nvidia or Adobe to resolve an issue created through the not so new OS now seemed loaded or having a bad attitude, its only out of frustration.