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April 14, 2019
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Hardware to run Dynamic Link?

  • April 14, 2019
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Hello,

I have an older PC (maybe 5 years old) and want to buy a new one or upgrade this current one because whenever I use dynamic link from Character Animator to Premiere Pro, I get about 1 frame every 10 seconds when I try to composite a scene. I don't mind having to work with the lowest settings on playback, but I would like it to play at a decent frame rate.
Here is my current GPU: https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Radeon-8490-Graphics-Card/dp/B00SYLV1RI

Current Processor: https://www.amazon.com/AMD-4-Core-Black-FX-4300-FD4300WMHKBOX/dp/B009O7YU3S

Also working with

32GB ram

SSD driver for all adobe applications and related files.

windows 10

So my question is how can I improve the playback while using Dynamic Link?

Should I upgrade the processor or GPU?

Should I just buy something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Acer-TC-885-ACCFLi5O-Desktop-i5-8400-802-11ac/dp/B07M6LKLYR/ref=sxin_2_ac_d_pm?keywords=desktop+p…

because it already comes with a much better processor and then install my SSD, 32gb Ram and a better GPU in it? I happen to have a ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) DirectX 11 ENGTX560 TI DCII/2DI/1GD5 Video Card - Newegg.com but it doesn't fit in my current PC.

Any help would be appreciated, I'm not really a technical person with PC's, but I love Adobe using adobe products.

Thanks.

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Legend
April 14, 2019

My suggestion:

Save up for an entire new system. You will NOT be able to use your existing 32 GB of RAM at all in any new PC because your current RAM is DDR3 while new PCs now use only DDR4 RAM; the two types are completely incompatible with one another (in fact, the DDR3 and DDR4 slots are both physically and electrically different from one another so that your existing DDR3 RAM will not even physically fit the RAM slots on any newer PC). And the rest of your hardware is in extremely sad shape by current standards, with a GPU that's actually slower than most of the integrated graphics built into newer CPUs. And to top (or in this case, bottom) it off, your current CPU is actually as slow as or slower than even a Haswell-generation dual-core Intel i3 CPU because the CPU features that Adobe software makes heavy use of are poorly implemented in all of the pre-Ryzen AMD CPUs compare to even Intel CPUs that are three generations older than that.

And you cannot use any Fermi GPU at all in the latest versions of Premiere Pro for GPU acceleration (this means that the MPE renderer will be permanently locked to the software-only mode), beginning with version 13.0.0: NVIDIA has EOSL'd (End Of Support Lifed) all Fermi GPUs as of this past January although the last driver version that supported Fermi was version 391.35, released at the end of March of last year. But that driver only supported CUDA 9.1, while all versions of Premiere Pro 13.x require a driver that supports CUDA 9.2 or higher (this means driver version 397.64 or later) to even enable GPU acceleration at all.

Inspiring
April 14, 2019

Got it. Thank you for the reply. So it sounds like prioritizing a good CPU when making a purchase would be the best thing to do, if I am understanding what you said correctly.

If anyone has a recommendation for a PC between 500 - 800 USD I would be grateful, but thank you very much again for the reply.

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 14, 2019

joshuag86337383  wrote

If anyone has a recommendation for a PC between 500 - 800 USD

That is not a realistic price range for a computer for Premiere Pro CC.