Nvidia GTX 970 compatibility with Premiere Pro CC 2014

[Ericbowen]

Works fine with most systems. Some boards are having resource issues with it so may require a bios update. Adobe works great with it.

Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com

[Pete Stanford]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the swift reply – it’s great to know that the card works well with PP CC 2014!

Regards,
Pete

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Pete,

This card has not been tested yet by the Premiere team but as you may know As long as you have a GPU with 786mb of VRAM, you will be able to use GPU acceleration without any hacks.

Though I haven’t tested the card the specs look nice!

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Pete Stanford]

Thanks Peter, much appreciated.

[Ericbowen]

Just remember to look in the forums for the manufacturer of your systemboard and see if any are reporting ram issues with the 900 series cards and that board. So far the Zotac cards are not showing this but some of the other manufacturers for the Geforce cards have had this issue with some boards and their current bios.

Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com

[Kevin Monahan]

Please report back if you have any issues, Pete. Have fun with the new GPU!

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan
Support Product Manager—DVA
Adobe After Effects
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[Pete Stanford]

Thanks Eric,

I’m in the process of putting together a small workstation (a built-to-order Dell Precision T1700), and hope to install the GTX 970 in this. I can get the Zotac shipped to Cape Town, South Africa via Amazon. I’ll check with the person configuring the Dell whether there are any systemboard issues with the Zotac, before I place my order. Thanks for all the advice.

Thanks Kevin, I’ll keep you posted

Cheers,
Pete

[Randy Mcwilson]

I just installed the GTX 970 into my Adobe CC environment.
INCREDIBLE. I created a 4096 sequence, scaled up a 1080 clip to full screen, applied Gaussian blur, Noise, and rotated it on two 3D axes (keyframed), with color correction….

It played back fullscreen, full speed, no dropped frames, and the GPU load never even broke a sweat beyond 19%.

My previous card was a GTX 560 SE. This is not an upgrade, it is a paradigm shift.
Premiere accepted the card after the polite “Enable this unsupported GPU” notice.
Exports (at least to H.264) are taking the card up to about 76%.

[Benny Shklovsky]

Hello
I have a brand new Asus ROG Laptop with 32GB RAM, 500GB SSD + 1TB 7200RPM HDD, and GTX970 on it (Win 8.1). Premiere Pro CC(2014) allows me to use GPU acceleration, though it specifies it is not certified. But it doesn’t boost the speed of rendering previews, or exporting by much, if at all. the CPU processing speed drops to around 80%, so I presume the GPU does take some threading on itself, but RAM usage goes up to 8GB max.
I set up the systems power management to maximal efficiancy, and set the proccess priority of Premiere Pro and Encoder to ‘Real Time’. It helps, but I expected more.
How can I further maximize the potential of the GPU and the entire system?

Thank you

[Dmitry Borzov]

Hi! I found a way to raytrace 3d work. it turned out that the company has not updated adobe lib optix. in the parts that comes with the after effect is version 3.0.0 in August 2013. It is not present in the card support on the architecture “maxwell”
I downloaded from the site Nvidia optix version 3.8 and simply replace the file optix.1.dll. and lo and behold I have on my card earned ray-trace 3d.
I checked today at work on a gtx 970 and bonded 2x gtx 980 all worked fine

mini guide
1. Download https://www.sendspace.com/file/lt8trf
2. create one backup c: \ Program Files \ Adobe \ Adobe After Effects CC 2014 \ Support Files \ optix.1.dll I just renamed optix.1.dll in optix.1_bak.dll
3. Copy the downloaded file in the c: \ Program Files \ Adobe \ Adobe After Effects CC 2014 \ Support Files \
4. In the after effect turn “Enable untested, unsupported CPU for CUDA acceleration or ray-traced 3D renderer” or you can add your card in the c: \ Program Files \ Adobe \ Adobe After Effects CC 2014 \ Support Files \ raytracer_supported_cards.txt
5. Profit

GPU work:gtx 750 ti, gtx 970, gtx 980, gtx 980 ti, gtx titan X. A few mobile gpu from 8xxm series.