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NTzenov
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February 27, 2025

Premiere 2025 Playheads STILL Choppy (Entire UI feels like it's struggling.)

  • February 27, 2025
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Specs: Windows 11 Pro, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core 3.7Ghz, 32GB RAM, RTX 3080. Dual monitors.

Scratch disks have plenty of space. (300GB+ on primary and 2-3TB on the secondary.) Currently using NVIDIA Studio v 572.60. Premiere is vanilla -- no plugins, etc. No other softwares are running.

 

Problem: Every playhead in Premiere (v25.1) is choppy on playback. Both the indicator and the timecode update at most every few frames, and at the least -- never. The source & program ones work, but it's not smooth. The timeline only updates them when I pause -- which as you can imagine is a HUGE issue and makes editing extrmely annoying and almost impossible.

 

Attempts to fix:

Emptied Media Cache.

Uninstall and re-install of Premiere (did not import previous settings) -- no change.
Tried current Game Ready Driver -- no change.

Tried rolling back to NVIDIA Studio v 566.14, but it only made things worse.

Tried both software only and GPU acceleration for Project Settings -- no change.

Tried turning off "GPU accelerated UI rendering" in General preferences -- this made the timecode & playheads flow quite smoothly -- but random elements of the UI were flickering during playback (audio meters, setting in the Properties panel, Lumetri Scopes became useless, etc). This did however solve the 'slow loading panels' issue I've described below.

 

Final notes: Undocking the Timeline panel seems to make it work, but only as well as the Source/Program do -- it still has a slight choppiness to it. The location of the project, the media files, or type of media files makes absolutely no difference. Closing various panels as some have suggested does not work either. Changing the workspace also makes no difference.

 

Premiere 24.6.4 works perfectly fine. It seems to me like v25 is just not optimized well for my GPU/Driver... For instance, when I first launch a project, (or bring Premiere back from being minimized) all the panels load in randomly one at a time -- visually it looks like a bad internet connection trying to load a website. The software just feels clunky and slow to respond at times. Funny enough, it works perfectly fine on my M1 Mac Studio that I use at the office.

 

Anyone having a similar experience or found something that works? Hopefully Adobe can work with NVIDIA to address this UI nightmare.

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    NTzenovAuthor
    Participant
    February 27, 2025

    Hey Kevin-Monahan,

    Thank you for the quick reply!

     

    Workaround 1 - Both monitors are already set to 100% scaling (2560x1440).

     

    Workaround 2 - This didn't solve the playhead stutter, but it did slightly help the panels loading in all slow, so thank you! The UI overall feels a bit more responsive. (I had to choose System as the one performing the scaling, not Application.)

     

    While I was testing this step however, I found a new piece of information in regards to the playhead problem:

     

    My timeline playheads/timecodes work perfectly if there's no clip selected on the timeline. I keep "Selection Follows Playhead" on by default, so I didn't notice this at first. Basically, if there's a video track clip (footage or graphic) highlighted anywhere in the Timeline - the playhead freezes up, and the one in the Program panel stutters ever so slightly. If I have an audio clip, a subtitle clip, or nothing selected -- both playheads are smooth as butter.

     

    Workaround 3 - I'll probably hold off on rolling back my Windows update for now. I'm on KB5052094.

     

    Even though I'd rather keep it on for convenience, I might just turn Selection Follow off (or be forced to go back to Premiere 24) until this is resolved in a future patch -- hopefully this new piece of info about the clip selection can help narrow down the issue at play.

    Kevin-Monahan
    Community Manager
    Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 28, 2025

    This sounds rather odd. I will run this by developers to see if they might have any suggestions. Sorry for the hassle.

     

    Thanks,
    Kevin

     

    Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
      Kevin-Monahan
      Community Manager
      Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      February 27, 2025

      Hello NTzenov,

      Thanks for the message and welcome to the community. I appreciate the information you gave. Since your system was fine until you updated to 25.1, this issue may have something to do with the latest Windows update (KB5050094 (OS Build 26100.3037) or KB5051987 (OS Build 26100.3194)) in certain configurations. Those with dual monitors with different scaling options that are set are affected. Does that describe your Windows system?

      Here are some workarounds:

      Workaround (1): Matching the scaling on both monitors (e.g., setting both to 100%) resolves the issue

      Workaround (2): Local Programs -> Adobe -> Premiere Pro -> Right click on the executable file -> Properties -> Compatibility -> High -> Change dpi settings -> Redefine high dpi scaling behavior.

      Override.

      Workraound (3) : Uninstall the Windows update.

       

      I hope the advice might help. Let us know what happens after testing please.

       

      Thanks,
      Kevin

       


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