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ryanw8158232
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October 28, 2017
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GPU not being used in Adobe Premiere 2018

  • October 28, 2017
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I am on a brand new laptop with Adobe Premiere 2018 and an NVIDIA GeFore GTX 1050. When I render I see the CPU go to 100% while the GPU sits idle.

In the settings for Premiere I see the "Renderer" set to "Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (CUDA)" and I made a text file in the directory for Premiere called: "cuda_supported_cards.txt" with "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050" in it.

I installed the latest drivers as well.

What is missing/ wrong with this setup?

thanks

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    aviralmediratta
    aviralmediratta
    Participating Frequently
    January 10, 2018

    Hi Ryan,

    I know you have been replied with many suggestion but what I believe your question is still unanswered. To enable GPU on Premiere Pro you have to follow 4 simple steps.

    (1) First of all change the Renderer on Premiere Pro, Media Encoder and After Effects and then close all the Adobe apps (creative cloud would be fine if running but close Premiere, Photoshop and such other apps).

    (2) Disable Intel on-board GPU in "Device Manager" (If your motherboard has an on-board GPU like Intel HD Graphics) . Search for "Device Manager" in start menu, navigate to your on-board GPU, right click on it and select Disable device and click yes on the pop-up received.

    (3) Go to the installation director which is like "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017" (based on your installation architecture x86 or x64. For my example its on x64 installation) and look for the file "GPUSniffer.exe".

    (3) Run "GPUSniffer.exe" as an administrator and it's done. Repeat the same for Media Encoder and all other Adobe installations where you find the GPUSniffer file.

    Now you can select the Rendered back to Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (CUDA) and would be able to get GPU usage while rendering or exporting the video. Just as a suggestion when your GPU is of much higher quality to that of your CPU, there are chances of higher CPU consumption percentage as compared GPU consumption and this is why it is recommended to have both the things at par to get the optimum result of your system. Other than that always run all the resource hungry apps as administrator. By doing so you would face lesser number of issues and/or face under-performance of your system.

    Thanks,

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      rajivs13818131
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      January 27, 2018

      i can't thank you enough!!! that solved my problem i have been looking for days. thanks

      i would like to ask if can remove the disable from my integerated card (intel) or should i leave my laptop only to nvidia gtx 1050 alone?

        aviralmediratta
        aviralmediratta
        Participating Frequently
        January 28, 2018

        Hi rajivs13818131,

        Glad my suggestion helped you. I would personally recommend to keep it disabled for two reasons: (1) After every app update you would need to repeat the same process. (2) While rendering heavy effects, transitions or 4K clips, Adobe tries to optimize the process by using every possible hardware (including your RAM, Virtual RAM / Pagefile, All GPUs, Processor and even HDD) because of which even if you sniff only GTX 1050 it would try to detect other GPUs (if available in enable state) in such scenarios which definitely not hinder the render process but might lead to reduction in quality of rendering and can take more time to render. Hope I could resolve your query.

        Thanks,

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          ryanw8158232Author
          Participant
          October 28, 2017

          I downloaded it but: Which timeline is the GPU accelerated MPEG2-DVD one? How do I run 4 tests and see the results? I am on the latest version of Premiere. thanks

          Bill Gehrke
          Bill Gehrke
          Inspiring
          October 28, 2017

          Well if you have not changed anything when you start up is self-instructing.  IF you changed any settings select the Disk I/O timline and follow the "title" page to set up your settings.  Once you have run all four exports you run the approprate Statistics file which will give you a popup window with some verbiage and it produces an Output.csv file/  If you then Submit it, it will ask you to download Speccy which gives me detail hardware/software information on your computer so I can make the best constructive comments for your benefit. 

          The second test is the first export of the MPEG2-DVD timeline which is GPU accelerated.  But to get the results you have to run all four exports to get the report

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          bahodgin
          Participating Frequently
          October 28, 2017

          Bill,

          Thanks for the instructions....hope to be using them soon.

          Best Regards,

          Barry Hodgin

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          ryanw8158232Author
          Participant
          October 28, 2017

          I see, yes. The plugin for Neat Video did work with the GPU a small amount when I enabled it. In that dialog, it allows using GPU, CPU or GPU and CPU, is GPU and CPU the fastest? thanks!

          Bill Gehrke
          Bill Gehrke
          Inspiring
          October 28, 2017

          If you would like to see ~100% GPU usage run my Premiere Pro BenchMark and with the GPU accelerated MPEG2-DVD time line you can see that.  If you run the whole four tests and Submit the results I can comment on your results, and maybe help you get more performance out of your system

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            jasont53629102
            Participant
            November 3, 2017

            Hi Bill,

            Really appreciate the advice in this thread. I too am having major issues with Latency and I'm running a fairly serious build so must have something configured wrong somewhere.

            Waiting for Benchmark to download and will see what's going on hopefully.

            Thank you for this benchmarking app.

            Jason Thompson

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            Bill Engeler
            Inspiring
            October 28, 2017

            GPU acceleration is only used for certain things. If you don't have any GPU accelerated effects on your timeline, or you are not resizing when you transcode , it's mostly all Cpu.

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