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jensl95989480
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May 16, 2017
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Force After Effects to use certain GPU

  • May 16, 2017
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On use two Nvidia Cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with 11GB VRAM on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014).  They have different CUDA compute level and different VRAM.

How I can force After Effects to use only my powerful GTX 1080 Ti?

Thanks for any advice!

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      ULTRACHROMA
      ULTRACHROMA
      Known Participant
      July 28, 2017

      Kevin-Monahan​ Thanks for the info - have tried this route to little success. Any other suggestions? Thanks again!

      Kevin-Monahan
      Community Manager
      Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      August 1, 2017

      Hi Chris,

      have tried this route to little success. Any other suggestions? Thanks again!

      Work with the video queue. Contact them via this form: Contact Customer Care

      Let us know how it goes.

      Thanks,
      Kevin

      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
      P.M.B
      P.M.B
      Legend
      May 17, 2017

      The solution is simple.  Carefully remove the 750m and gently place it in the trash.   Or save for a scrap build.

      ~Gutterfish
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        jensl95989480Author
        Participant
        May 18, 2017

        Unfortunately, I can not remove it. It is firmly installed in my laptop. But maybe I can power my screen with the bigger card. Let's see ...

        Kevin-Monahan
        Community Manager
        Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        July 13, 2017

        Still having problems with this JensL? Please let us know.

        Thanks,
        Kevin

        Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
        Szalam
        Community Expert
        SzalamCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        May 17, 2017

        After Effects doesn't use the GPU for much so you may be overestimating the advantage a better GPU will bring. That being said, more and more native effects are being GPU-accelerated. AE version 14.2 now accelerates Fractal Noise and it makes me very happy.

        And, of course, a number of third party effects like Element, Red Giant Unverse, etc. run exclusively on the GPU.

        AE will use the GPU that is powering your display.

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