Roger Bowen
Forum Replies Created
-
I am registering an interest in the answers to this question.
To date, I have had a mixed experience with building a machine for Adobe Premier. Two machines were prepared both with about 2G memory and AMD Athlon 64 3200 processor. One machine worked well enough with Premiere CS4; the other would not. The machine that worked with CS4 was fine for SD but hopeless for HD.
The rules as gleaned but neither validated or endorsed seem to be:
Memory: Fast 800M DDR2 or better: at least 4G; 8G, 12G or 16G are progressively better.
OS: Vista 64 bit to allow more than 4G of memory. there are dark comments about 64 bit drivers for all sorts of devices.
Disk: sustained throughput of between 5 and 10M per second that can only be achieved by a Raid of at least two disks (Bit hard to believe as SATA II interface is 300M and disks at 7200 rpm with 32M cache give 50M/sec in bench marks)
CPU: Intel Dual E8500; Intel Quad Q9300. Apparently the quad is significantly better than the dual at “Rendering”
Graphics Card: nVidia 9800 GT 512M or even 1024 M
Mobo: Asus or Gigabyte seem to be recommended but I don’t know which models.
I’ve found it very difficult to quantify how much hardware grunt is required and it almost seems as if the latest and greatest hardware can be pushed to the point where it is not really adequate.
Well that’s the end of my limited research. Can anyone shed some light on a hardware set that will do the business without costing an arm and a leg?
Thanks in advance
-
-
Having been through the list of Trouble shooting tips, nothing much came to light.
The bottom line is CS4 randomly crashes on a particular machine. There appears to be nothing wrong with memory, cpu, video card or disks but CS4 crashes ast almost any point. Consistently the captured video is not displayed well but there seem to be few clues beyond that. The event logs are not updated; the machine itself is OK in that its only CS4 that disappears.
Is there a utility that will trap a program just before it exits?
Regards
Roger Bowen
-
Thank you for the Troubleshooting Tips. It will be a while before have worked through all of them but the hunt is on.
Two extra bits of information:
1. Unexpectedly we were able to use a second machine with an Athlon64 3200+ cpu. Although this did not meet the minimum spec (only 1G of memory) Premiere CS4 worked fine on the box.
2. The box that is not working is being overclocked by 10% on CPU and Memory. An obvious thing yet to be tried is to turn the overclocking off.In the meantime, thank you for the advice and guidance.
Soon …
Regards
Roger Bowen -
To cut what could be a Gordion knot, we changed the video card for an ATI Radeon 9600/ X1050. The swap was successful and the latest driver from ATI/AMD worked well with various test programs.
However, Premiere CS4 continued to blow up on entry although occasionally it got to the point of starting to display video.
Looks like the problem is somewhere other than the video cards / drivers but at this point I have no idea where.
Onwards and Upwards
-
Thank you for the response.
The latest drivers from nvidia are 175.19, Release Date: July 9, 2008.
The driver you are recommending is 71.89. Where can I find that driver?
Regards
Roger Bowen