NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

[Joseph Hung]

Some users have said that doing a completely clean install of Yosemite hasn’t brought them these issues.

I’d like to add that I’ve done a fresh clean install of Yosemite 10.10.5, with CUDA Driver 7.0.64 (as Peter Garaway from Adobe has stated as being stable), to no avail. I also tested it with the newer CUDA driver 7.5.2, still same issue.

My system is a Mac Pro 5,1, GeForce GTX 680 2GB for Mac, Yosemite 10.10.5, Adobe CC 2015, Nvidia driver that comes with OSX

When I export using CUDA, graphical issues. When I try to export using OpenCL, Media Encoder crashes.

No sleep for the weary.

Joseph

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[Brian Cooney]

Anyone know if this issue has bene resolved with the recent CUDA and PPRO updates? I’m still on Mavericks and no longer havign the issue, but looking to upgrade OS.. but want to know if the issues with Yosemite or El Capitan will still exist. thanks.

Telly Award Winning Editor and Motion Gfx Artist with MotionFoundry, Inc., Nashville, TN. Former Head of Post Production, Coca-Cola Studios Atlanta, GA.

[Joseph Hung]

Hold on a second, I think it just resolved itself.

So to rehash: Complete clean install of Yosemite 10.10.5. Reinstalled applications and plugins. Installed CUDA 7.0.64, and Nvidia Driver 346.02.03f02. Caused Graphics Failure. Then installed CUDA 7.5.21. Same problems.

I made sure Nvidia Web Driver is selected (Instead of the driver that came with OSX). Have’t done anything different, other than a few restarts here and there.

I’ve been working with CUDA GPU Acceleration in PPro CC 2015 (GeForce GTX 680 2GB Mac Edition), Mac Pro 5,1 12 core). Suddenly, I’m not getting the graphics glitches and failures after exporting using CUDA. I’m not sure what changed, nothing really from having issues to not having issues. But I’ve been working steadily for 3 days now and I have not had one graphics issue, as opposed to every single time I exported using CUDA.

Maybe there’s some hope. Will keep crunching over here and keep an eye on things. Will report back.

[David Roth weiss]

[Joseph Hung] “I made sure Nvidia Web Driver is selected (Instead of the driver that came with OSX).”

If you weren’t doing that before then it was a major source of all your problems.

[Joseph Hung] ” Installed CUDA 7.0.64, and Nvidia Driver 346.02.03f02. Caused Graphics Failure. Then installed CUDA 7.5.21. Same problems. “

Just install the latest CUDA driver…

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.

[Fred Connors jr.]

How do you “select” the web driver?

The Troupe – Modern Media Design & Production

[Joseph Hung]

Actually, before I did the complete clean install of Yosemite, I had tried both to no avail.

I had the same issues when I first did the clean install, it lasted a day, then for some unknown reason it’s disappeared. I haven’t changed anything.

Fingers crossed it sticks.

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[Joseph Hung]

Install the Nvidia Driver 346.02.03f02 and it should install an extension to your System Preferences. This is where you can switch between the two.

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[Brian Cooney]

Well, I thought I was home free with installing the NVIDIA webdriver after upgrading to Yosemite. But I’m having major issues presently with gfx display. I had downgraded to Mavericks over the spring and it solved the problem. But based on the recent posts here and the addition of the NVIDIA Web drivers, I thought this would no longer be an issue. – Any ideas? thanks.

Telly Award Winning Editor and Motion Gfx Artist with MotionFoundry, Inc., Nashville, TN. Former Head of Post Production, Coca-Cola Studios Atlanta, GA.

[Joseph Hung]

I just installed the security updates for Yosemite, which has now made the Nvidia Webdriver not compatible (the system is now only using the OSX driver). So, beware. Haven’t seen the GFX issue yet, but I’m working on location so won’t really know until I get back in there.

Super annoying, I didn’t think a security update would cause an issue with GFX. Doh! I know better to wait until Adobe follows up with their own update.

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[Brian Cooney]

yeah I did that too and have no new webdriver update… not seeing an issue yet.. but who knows with this.. it’s been going on for over a year now. serenity now!

Telly Award Winning Editor and Motion Gfx Artist with MotionFoundry, Inc., Nashville, TN. Former Head of Post Production, Coca-Cola Studios Atlanta, GA.