NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

[Ze’ev Gilad]

How does one uninstall CUDA?
Is it enough to remove the Pref Panel?
Or do we need to run an uninstaller?

[Peter Garaway]

I believe NVIDIA only provides a uninstaller with the web driver which only supports the following cards:

GeForce GTX 680
GeForce GTX 285
GeForce GT 120
GeForce 8800 GT
Quadro K5000 for Mac, Quadro 4000 for Mac
Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 5600

So if you don’t have the web driver please move each of the following items to the Trash, then reboot:

/Library/Frameworks/CUDA.framework
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nvidia.CUDASoftwareUpdate.plist
/Library/PreferencePanes/CUDA Preferences.prefPane
/System/Library/Extensions/CUDA
/System/Library/StartupItems/CUDA
/usr/local/cuda/lib/libcuda.dylib

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Brian Cooney]

David, how would I uninstall the NVIDIA drivers? not seeing an app for that or a way to uninstall within system preferences/cuda

thanks.

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

[Peter Garaway]

To uninstall the driver move each of the following items to the Trash, then reboot:

/Library/Frameworks/CUDA.framework
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nvidia.CUDASoftwareUpdate.plist
/Library/PreferencePanes/CUDA Preferences.prefPane
/System/Library/Extensions/CUDA
/System/Library/StartupItems/CUDA
/usr/local/cuda/lib/libcuda.dylib

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Brian Cooney]

Thanks I tried to uninstall it with terminal commands previously but wasn’t having any luck. appreciate it.

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

[Eric Fisher]

Also having the same problem. I ran a hardware diagnostic and ruled out hardware issues. I removed all the CUDA files, as well as uninstalled and reinstalled Premiere. The glitching is gone, but Premiere is still extremely unstable, crashing every hour or so, and very slow in response to commands. It also only seems to be an issue with Premiere. After Effects is functioning just fine.

I did a clean OS Yosemite install before installing the Creative Suite, and was running a Blackmagic Studio express when I decided to install the CUDA drivers and my life fell apart. (I’ve also since removed the blackmagic peripheral to rule that out.)

As I was writing this, I thought to import my sequences from the old project into a new, fresh one. Premiere seems to be working again, although my audio is playing back very glitchy, and a few track effects I had on the mix are not just gone, they’re unavailable…but at least I’m back to most functionality.

Time for another clean OS install, CUDA-free? Any way to not lose (another) half-day installing everything?

Eric Fisher
Director/Editor
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB

[Brian Cooney]

I deleted CUDA files and reinstalled today.. things are quite worse now. I’m switching from CUDA to Open CL to software but still having the same flickering and distortion issues within Premiere Pro.

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

[Brian Cooney]

Also, I’m using a 680 but didnt find an uninstaller. can I download one and try again? what are the options? possibly attach another card vie thunderbold? AMD? Desperate here.. thanks.

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

[Brian Cooney]

typo.. thunderbolt.

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

[Brian Cooney]

Premiere has been a bear all year for me..

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