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November 14, 2017
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AMD Threadripper 1950x Slow Adobe Boot and Render

  • November 14, 2017
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I just bought a power-house PC specifically for Premiere Pro and After Effects, and was expecting extremely fast render times. However, not only does Premiere Pro and After Effects take over 30 seconds to boot (my old computer booted them in less than 10 seconds), but the rendering time seems the same, if not worse. Here are my specs:

Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (16-Core) (Boost Up to 4.0 GHz)

Motherboard: ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME (AMD X399 Chipset) (Up to 4x PCI-E Devices) (ECC Support)

System Memory: 64GB DDR4 3000MHz

Storage Set 1: 1x SSD (480GB)

Storage Set 2: 1x Storage (3TB Seagate / Toshiba)

Graphics Card(s): 1x GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (64-Bit Edition)

Both Adobe and the Cache are located on the SSD. I have tried allocating more memory to Adobe. I have tried both Creator Mode and Game Mode on the 1950x.

It took me 15 minutes to render a 12 minute 1080p video which barely had any effects, and used a lot of still frame pictures with voice-over. With this powerful of a machine, it seems absurd.

Also in Adobe Animate, when I try to preview my animations in 1080p within the program, there is still a lot of lag. I would get this on my older PC too, but I expected that this machine could handle it.


Does anyone know what may be slowing down the applications? Is Adobe Programs simply not updated yet for high-core processors?

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    noa-noa
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    November 18, 2017

    I came across your post while searching for a identical problem I have with my new pc system and a threadripper 1950x, I don't use premiere but edius and have exactly the same problem as you do, a lot slower program load and a generally more "laggy" feeling while using the program. My older i7 4790K also loads edius a lot faster and feels faster while using it. Performance while rendering/exporting a film looks good though, it's just the load times and the general feel while using the system, it's like it needs to think a bit before it acts.

    Bill Gehrke
    Bill Gehrke
    Inspiring
    November 19, 2017

    I assume that you bought an off-the-shelf computer and they typically come loaded with a kinds of garbage software the steals CPU cycles.  Tune that guy and get rid of everything not necessary like I said above.  Then test it with my PPBM to see if you can get the results I listed.  What antivirus are you using?  Disable it and see if that helps.  Also make sure you have disk indexing turned off on your project disks.

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    noa-noa
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    November 19, 2017

    In my case it's a custom build pc with only the OS and editing program, nothing else running in the background so also no virusscanner and the system has been tuned for my particular editing program like I always do, this is the first time I am experiencing such lag issues.

    Trevor.Dennis
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    Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 16, 2017

    Have you read the Puget Systems testing of the 1950X with Premiere Pro CC and AE CC?  This would tell what you should expect from your system, and might give some help with setup.

    https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Premiere-Pro-CC-2017-1-2-CPU-Performance-Core-i9-7940X-7960X-7980XE-1034/

    https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/After-Effects-CC-2017-2-CPU-Performance-Core-i9-7940X-7960X-7980XE-1037/

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    Mastar MediaAuthor
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    November 16, 2017

    Actually yeah I have read this, which basically states that rendering speeds don't really increase with cores. However with a much better graphics card and memory/ram than my old PC, I'd still expect an increase. Additionally, it does not explain why the boot time for Adobe Applications is so incredibly slow.

    Bill Gehrke
    Bill Gehrke
    Inspiring
    November 16, 2017

    Tune that system, it probably is loaded with many processes that start up automatically that are not needed.  Look at Task Manager/Performance an see how many processes are running before you even start Premiere.  Also looking at the same info and see if you have any CPU usage before you start Premiere.  This with the new Windows 10 Creator 1703 version

    Go to the Startup window and disable everything

    There are other processes that will automatically start up not on this list.

    When you get tuned I suggest that you download, unzip and run my Premiere Pro BenchMark (PPBM) and see how well you do.  Here are the results from a very happy ThreadRipper 1950X owner

    "34","52","13","158", Premiere Version:, 11.1.2.22

    1. Max also has a GTX 1080 Ti, so once tuned you should see numbers like the 52 and 13 seconds for those two GPU tests
    2. He also has a M.2 PCIe Gen 3 x4 SSD for his project and media files to achieve the great first number which is the Disk I/O test where you have a lousy hard disk drive which will probably score 170 seconds or more.
    3. The last number 158 seconds is strictly CPU performance
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