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baldinbro11
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November 25, 2017
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CC 2018 - Playback delay / slow performance with CUDA on?

  • November 25, 2017
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I'm having playback / performance issues with the new Premiere (2018) and CUDA playback. If I enable the Mercury Playback Engine with CUDA there is a very noticeable delay between when I hit play and when the actual timeline starts playing. This delay happens in the timeline, program & source monitor. Also the general performance of the program is quite poor with CUDA enabled. Slowness, lag, & crashes throughout the program.

LUCKILY, if you switch to "software only" mercury playback you get smooth Premiere performance and instant playback. Has anyone else seen this? Seems like an enormous bug.

I'm on 10.11.6 El Capitan & editing with fairly light footage (1080 / 23.98 / ProRes LT).

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    Anonymous
    December 15, 2017

    Same issue on Windows 10. I've been hunting through changing every setting imaginable. Disabling CUDA and using Software Only under Project Settings removes the delay.

    Windows 10 V 1709 (OS Build 16299)

    GTX 1080 on latest Driver (388.59 as of writing)

    Intel 3930K

    32GB RAM

    mrcarter0749
    mrcarter0749
    Participant
    December 7, 2017

    I'm having the exact same problem, but even if I switch to "Software only".  It seems like a lot of people are having this problem with CC 18, and I run Premiere off on two different computers.  Adobe has seemed more than a bit quiet on the issue.

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    November 25, 2017

    What's your GPU?

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    baldinbro11Author
    Participant
    November 26, 2017

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    November 26, 2017

    Have you done a manual check of your driver by going to Nvidia's website and checking the number of the latest driver available for that card on your OS compared to the one used by your OS?

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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