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

Yes ... and in Resolve and other apps as well. It clearly is not an Adobe specific issue. Though so freaking frustrating.

And seems to affect many though maybe not all 5060 & higher number cards. 

I've also found that Discord similarly locks up and stops responding while streaming to Discord using hardware acceleration. This makes me think it has something to do with the Nvidia/Windows drivers more than Adobe.

Chen292594190kp11 there is some logic to your approach of using game drivers and windows 10.  Reading through hundreds of posts in the gaming community, gamers seem to have found acorrelation between a windows update from May of 2025 and the interplay with the newer nvidia drivers (they listed a version I just cant recall it right now).

Your solution aligns with avoiding both the windows cumulative update and nvidia driver that the gaming community is pointing to for issues.

With that said,  I am confident that the engineering teams involved understand the issue and are working on a solution, and I think this will be solved 'soon' - but that will not be soon enough, I think soon is 2 weeks.  For the record, this is my personal speculation I have no connections that could inform confirm or deny this - so take it as hope or fantasy....

Can you export to ProRes? It's a visually lossless format, and then you can make h.264/5 from the ProRes.

I've had issues with this for over 3 months now. I haven't been able to properly export my videos due to all the crashing with my 5090. This is getting ridiculous.

This issue with the newer ... and very spendy Nvidia cards ... is a right royal pain for all users. Period. What a freaking mess!

There are a ton of users hoping this can get sorted without as you mention disabling some of the hardware you've already paid for. Dearly.

Total sympathies!

I spent a week trying to solve this problem — Windows 10 combined with the Game Driver is the only way to get Premiere Pro running.

I’ve read almost every single post about this issue, searching for solutions, but nothing has worked. Adobe has known about this for two months already, and they even said fixing it was the top priority. But two months have passed, and it’s still unresolved.

This is no longer just a simple driver problem. Hundreds of engineers at Adobe and Nvidia haven’t been able to fix this in two months.

Now both Adobe and Nvidia have gone silent. Even the latest 577.00 Studio Driver doesn’t mention any fixes for the Premiere Pro issue.

As a long-time IT professional, I want to tell you: this is not a trivial issue. Even if they do “solve” it in the future, it will likely involve disabling some features, reducing performance, or not fully utilizing the capabilities of the RTX 50-series GPUs.

The issue it seems to be is with those card's drivers ... I'm also a user of Resolve, and this has come up on the BM and other Resolve forums also. I've also seen a post where Nvidia recognizes some driver issues with some high-end uses. Which would be virtually all the pro video post apps, probably.

I would just note, as a general Nvidia practice ... I strongly disagree with your comments on the studio drivers/gaming drivers. As for over the last decade, gaming drivers have caused a tremendous amount of problems for many users ... that were simply resolved by going to the latest studio driver.

In over a decade, I know of only one other user who has suggested using gaming drivers. And a ton of posts where issues were solved by simply doing a clean install of the Studio driver.

Who’s unlucky? Me.

The school computer lab is getting an upgrade — we bought 32 RTX 5060 GPUs, and Premiere Pro is the main course in that lab. Damn it.

My current workaround is to roll back to Windows 10, install the Game Ready Driver (absolutely do not install any version of the Studio Driver), and make sure to use DDU to completely remove the old driver.

In the BIOS, set PCIe 5.0 to 3.0, and disable Resize BAR.

In the driver settings, change the Power Plan to “Maximum Performance” — otherwise, you’ll get a black screen. The PC hasn’t crashed, it just loses video output.

After all these tweaks, Premiere Pro becomes usable — exports and renders work fine.

BUT if you’re working with all 4K footage, the workload becomes too heavy, and the system might crash or reboot.

This batch of GPUs is killing me — I’ve taken the heat from the school and most of the teachers.

It’s clearly not a small issue, and I don’t know whether it can be fixed, or if it’s permanently broken.

Remember to keep evidence — send at least one email per month to the supplier, setting a deadline.

I told them: If it’s not resolved in 6 months, we’re returning them.

@Jawad335818487twc Nevermind. The UI froze up but the video completed. It took several hours.