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  • Problems with graphics card on AE newest update

    Posted by Ken Foldenauer on November 18, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    Here’s my issue, I can preview everything in my composition on quarter, third, and half resolution but when I change it to full, the image is a mess. I’m assuming this is the graphics card. I have the AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB graphics card, I know this isn’t ideal and I’m some what limited but in the previous version I had no issues viewing a simple JPEG. I generally work with very large comps and I primarily create content for a 360° LED ring. This problem doesn’t happen in a 16:9 comp. I’m experiencing the issue in a comp that is 23360 x 112. I can still work in the previous version but I would like to know if this is something I need to upgrade or if I’m way off base and there’s something I can do inside the software to fix this?

    Thank you in advance!

    Michael Szalapski replied 9 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    November 18, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    If you’re just using the classic renderer or the C4D renderer, the GPU doesn’t play much of a role in rendering the image at any resolution. All the GPU is doing at that point (unless you’re using GPU-accelerated effects) is just serving that image up to the monitor. I couldn’t imagine that being the issue. That being said, go into Preferences>Display and turn off the option to use the hardware to accelerate panels, etc. and see if it makes a difference.

    What effects are you using in your scene?

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  • Ken Foldenauer

    November 18, 2016 at 4:32 pm

    That worked! Thanks,

    It does it to anything I put in the comp. I just had a small JPEG logo with nothing on it and it wouldn’t even preview the resting frame.

  • Michael Szalapski

    November 18, 2016 at 4:50 pm

    Huzzah! I’m glad it worked!
    Please, please, please file a bug report (with as much detail as you can muster) so that the AE team can get it fixed.
    File the bug report here: https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

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