NVIDIA GTX 285 Mercury playback

[Walter Soyka]

Wendell, you probably need to install the CUDA drivers:

https://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-5.5.28-driver.html

These enable CUDA computation on the GPU, and they’re separate from the display drivers.

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[Tim Jones]

You may also need to hack the supported cards list even after you install the CUDA drives as outlined here:

Using CUDA GPU with Unsupported Nvidia Card

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[Wendell Davis]

I have installed the “latest driver” 5.5.28 but so far no luck. Significant difference in how slow the entire system runs.

Checked my library-frameworks-CUDA.framework and all the files seem to be right. Rebuilt system preferences, all that I can think of at the moment.

Don’t know how to hack CS6 to force it to run and can’t find anything in the Adobe help forum.

Appreciate any help.
Wendell

[Walter Soyka]

Sorry, Wendell, but apparently I’ve given you some bad advice. The latest driver (which I linked to) is required for Mavericks — but it’s also the first NVIDIA CUDA driver to not support your card.

In fact, with this latest release, NVIDIA has dropped support for all CUDA cards except the GTX 680, Quadro 4000, and Quadro K5000. You may want to uninstall these drivers.

I don’t think you’ll be able to run hardware MPE with that GPU on Mavericks.

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[Wendell Davis]

Thanks Walter… a 6 month old card that doesn’t work any more. Guess I’ll have to break down and buy a new one. Question will be do I trust NVIDIA again -and or considering going back to OS 10.8. There a re quite a few things I don’t like about Mavericks.

Have a wonderful holiday.
Wendell

[Peter Mackay]

Well my Quadro 4000 does not work either after the upgrade to Mavericks. Really messed up my work day, everything need rendering now. Just waiting for a 11 hr render to finish. Think I’ll just give up waiting for drivers and get the 680 card. Ahh maybe that was the strategy to get more cards sold!!

[Wendell Davis]

YES I AGREE….sell more gear. -:(

[Walter Soyka]

[Wendell Davis] “Thanks Walter… a 6 month old card that doesn’t work any more. Guess I’ll have to break down and buy a new one. “

In fairness to NVIDIA and EVGA, the GTX 285 for Mac was discontinued more than three years ago. It’s an old card. I’m actually surprised you were able to find one six months ago. I do hope you got a good price.

The current officially supported options on the Mac are the GTX 680 and the Quadro K5000.

I know other folks have been running other PC cards from NVIDIA in their Macs, but I don’t know if this new driver will enable CUDA on those anymore.

[Wendell Davis] “Question will be do I trust NVIDIA again -and or considering going back to OS 10.8. There a re quite a few things I don’t like about Mavericks.”

I think NVIDIA is generally trustworthy. I have not yet installed Mavericks on my Macs as not all my apps support it yet. You might consider going back to 10.8 if you want to hang on to the card you’ve got.

Walter Soyka
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[Wendell Davis]

Thanks Walter – actually considering moving backwards to 10.8.
Happy Holidays!
Wendell

[Walter Soyka]

[Peter Mackay] “Well my Quadro 4000 does not work either after the upgrade to Mavericks. Really messed up my work day, everything need rendering now. Just waiting for a 11 hr render to finish. Think I’ll just give up waiting for drivers and get the 680 card. Ahh maybe that was the strategy to get more cards sold!!”

Wow, Mavericks is sounding pretty rough.

Have you tried the drivers I linked to above? The Quadro 4000 is supposed to be supported.

Walter Soyka
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