Jim Swinson
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Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s not defective hardware because a lot us is on different hardware. I also think this goes further than the CUDA driver also. I don’t get the screen glitches like a lot of others but I’m getting the system freezing when using any type of acceleration like CUDA or OpenCL but much worse with CUDA. Same thing happens in Resolve and Final Cut Pro X. I just moved back to Mavericks so I will have to see if this helps, it seems some have had more luck with Mavericks when it comes to the freezing issue I have but the screen glitch I don’t have some in this thread said that does happen on Mavericks. You would think Nvidia would be all over fixing this issue since it’s a technology that is a big selling point for them but I worry it’s not a priority for them. I did a search and can’t find anything in Nvidia blogs or anywhere else talking about these issues or any statement from Nvidia saying they know there is an issue and working on fixing it. If every program is having theses freezing issues when using the GPU it has to be a either a Nvidia graphic driver issue or a CUDA issue, I really don’t see what else it could be. We are not all using the same graphic cards or Mac systems so I don’t think its hardware related.
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Yeah I pretty much tried everything and the new CUDA driver just made things worse. I have just formatted and finally back on Mavericks and in the process of installing all of the Adobe Creative Cloud programs I use. Soon I will know if this helps and if it does I plan on making a backup and sticking with it until I know things are fixed.
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Thanks for responding. I might just have to format and go back to Mavericks then. I really don’t have any other options.
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This has gotten to the point where I just can’t get anything done. This has to be a Nvidia CUDA issue considering a lot of us are running different versions of mac hardware and all having issues. Not only that but I can’t run Resolve, Final Cut Pro X, Speed Grade, or Premiere Pro without any of them crashing within a couple of minutes. Can anyone running Mavericks and utilizing CUDA verify that they are having any issue or at least is it minimal with Mavericks. This is the first time I have ever been in the position where I can’t just switch to a different editing program or change out a computer part to fix an issue and get things done.
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Yeah I was a Windows fanboy but I started to add up all the troubleshooting I did over a year with hardware issues, blue screens, update issues, random crashing with the OS and also Adobe, having to format to just about fix every issue and then a week later another one would pop up. I was running a nvidia quadro 4000 card and it had a lot of issue on the PC. I added up I was wasting several days per month just fixing my system. Moved to Mac and up until Yosemite everything was pretty good. I’m just hoping this is not a sign Apple is going the opposite direction now. I guess at this point we don’t know if it’s Apple, Adobe or Nvidia to blame so i’m holding judgement.
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I decided to make the move to Mac last year after installing Windows 8 on my system and after about 30 minutes of using it formatted and went back to Windows 7. At that moment I made the decision if that was the way Microsoft was going with Windows I had no choice but to move to the dark side. It had been a couple of years since I had built an editing station and I was having lots of issues with Windows 7 like blue screens, updates screwing things, adobe crashing it. Lots of issue and I had finally had enough. I spent my $4k on on my iMac and up until Yosemite came out I was thinking the old saying “once you go MAC you never go back” was true. Now i’m not so sure. I don’t think Windows 10 will be any better but I’m pretty much stuck for another 2 years. I really do love my iMac and OSX and up until last year was one of those that swore a PC and Windows was the way to go and when I moved over found out what I had been missing. If they could get this one issue solved I think for most including myself everything else is fine. i actually cringe when thinking of going back now but I got to say with this current issue it has crossed my mind.
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WOW! Now tonight I tried to use CUDA to render a project in Media Encoder and it got to about 20 minutes in before it crashed the computer with about 5 minutes left. So after reboot I tried software only and Media Encoder crashes as soon as the opening credits are done about 10 seconds into the render. I guess at this point It going to be a long night trying to get a 20-25 minute render done. My next project I’m going to have to try Davinci Resolve for editing. I have had it crash before but nothing like this. Does anyone know if Mavericks has these issue?
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Yeah I tried disconnecting my second monitor and it still crashes. My last render with Media Encoder it crashed within 12 seconds. Changed the setting to software only and it got through the render without any issues as always.
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Definitely. I plan on doing some tests today and tomorrow and will report back.
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I had forgotten I did have some luck with that one time when I could not get through a render without my iMac rebooting so I disconnected my second monitor and it amazingly got through. Not sure why I did not think about that again and try it while editing also. The problem is I really like having my second monitor for full screen display of video especially when color correcting and color grading.