P: Premiere Pro Freeze During Export Using Hardware Encoding (NVIDIA RTX 5070)

Do most of you run Win11 24H2 (latest)?

I at least have been having no significant issues with Win11 23H2 thus far, which I hope to stay on as long as possible till Microsoft ever figures out how to fix 24H2 or just release a new version that's not plagued.

My current setup,

• Ultra 7 265K
• 96GB 5600MT/s
• RTX 5070 Ti (572.83 Studio)
• PP, AE and ME on 24.6.5 (versions that has been working fine for me, don't want to risk updating with all these reports after all)
• Windows 11 23H2 (build 22631.5699)

Both H264 and H265 encodes/decodes with GPU acceleration w/o freezing or crashing. Anything HW accelerated works fine really, even outside of Adobe. I have made sure to exclude my Intel iGPU ofc, so it's not involved in anything Adobe related. Running with CPU only is significantly slower for me, so they're definitely utilizing my GPU.

With that said, I'm no professional, mostly just working with very small projects really. Perhaps it would've been different if my setup was running more larger scale projects or something.

And you've tried clean installation of the latest Nvidia studio drivers I presume? 

Some users in all the heavy video apps are having troubles but it's only some users, who may like you have proper action in one but not another.

As a Resolve user, I know of similar but reversed situations. Very frustrating. 

I have an RTX 5090  card and i ahve the same issue, it randomly stops everywhere, its such a pain, all of my other video editing apps work smoothly and flawlessly, capcut, resolve, but premiere keeps freezing in media encoder or in exporting, it definately is a software issue with the newer cards and its a pain to be paying so much money for a suscription where it clearly doesnt work. 

Well, another possibility dashed.

The new series does have some power system changes from the 40 series, and some users have wondered if that is part of the issue. No way to know, but ... it's been a problem at times in the past, so ... maybe? Under some circumstances/situations? 

What a freaking pain.

@R Neil Haugen I'm using a gen 3 slot (set up manually) and experiencing this issue

I really feel for you ... those 50 series cards are a right pain for so many! 

As I'm also a Resolve user, was just on the BM forums, where a user was asking if anyone with a 50 series card had tried setting the bios for the slots to gen 4 rather than the newer gen 5, wondering if that was an issue.

We're down to that sort of speculation on what the hay is off with those things.

Ended up here after having a similar problem. The render would either start and then stop, or it wouldn't start at all (As I'm typing this and trying to render something, it literally just paused..). I also had an issue where every ~10 minutes or so I'd have to close Premiere Pro and then restart because my preview would go black or the scrubbing would be choppy or else Premier would crash.

Here are my specs/Version:

Premiere Pro 25.3

i7-13700K

32GB DDR5

5070ti

I've got plenty of storage space, writing everything to an NVME, all of the files are local. Footage is a blend of 4K and 1080p, but I'm exporting everything to h.265/4K. 

We are all hoping that Nvidia, Adobe, BlackMagic et al figure out the problems many users with 50 series cards are having, and soon.

As it isn't just Premiere Pro that is being hit.

I'm having this same issue! I recently updated my graphics card to a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and now every time I try to export videos in Media Encoder it will randomly freeze somewhere in the rendering process. Then I have to go into task manager to end task and if that doesn't work I have to restart my PC completely. 

I have even attempted to export with different setting and to different locations, even tried to export directly through Premiere Pro and still have the same result. I'm not using any heavy effects or have long videos, just fun YouTube videos (20mins-40min vids).

Here are my current specs:

Card: RTX 5070 Ti
Driver: NVIDIA Game Ready Driver 580.88

Premiere Pro: 25.3

OS: Windows 11 Home build 26100.4770

Any assist or help would be appreciated! Thanks!

@NVManuel I updated drivers and tested an export and it still froze up and failed on a 5090 FE.