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Inspiring
Jan 18, 2026 1:02 AM UTC
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Latest Media Encoder Beta 26.1.1 Disables CUDA Renderer

I cannot switch renderer to CUDA in latest build. I rolled back to 26.1 and it works fine. 

GTX 4090

Latest NVIDIA Studio Driver

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
Jan 23, 2026 2:31 PM UTC

Same here B32.

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Participant
Jan 22, 2026 2:26 PM UTC

Yup, super slow renders. It's not even that it's really slow because it's on the CPU - it's that the CPU (and GPU which is unused) is basically idling during the render phase, at least on my 9950x3D. It like driving a sportscar 10mph on a 80mph road. I use the software renderer at times when doing HDR10 + Metadata exports, and in previous versions of AME, it would max out the CPU for the render. That's not happening here. 

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Inspiring
Jan 22, 2026 9:51 AM UTC

Same here, selecting the rendering engine is grayed out and render speeds are glacial.

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Participant
Jan 21, 2026 5:22 AM UTC

Same here. 26.1.1 is incredibly buggy and shouldn't have been released in the beta channel yet. Premiere 26.1.1 is equally buggy. 

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