Trapcode Tao shows a black screen ONLY when DOF from Camera is turned on.

I started a project on my laptop, it's a camera flying through a Trapcode Tao built tunnel with some particles from Trapcode particular floating around inside of it. On the laptop it renders fine both in the viewport and final render, but it's also really slow. 

On my desktop, when I open up the project file in both AE 2019 and 2018 there is a black screen wherever a trapcode Tao layer is UNLESS I turn off the camera DOF in which everything shows up normally again. My desktop machine is a Windows 10 machine with an i9-9900x @3.5ghz, 64GB RAM and two RTX 2080 graphics cards. 

My laptop is a Prostar manufactured Windows 10 with an Intel Core i7-8750H Processor 2.2 Ghz and a GTX 1070. 

As I said before, the laptop does not have any of these issues other than it's slow because of all the DOF. 

I wondered if maybe the project file itself was corrupted or something. So on my desktop I opened up a blank project in both AE 2018 and 2019 and created a trapcode tao layer and a camera. Each time when I turned on DOF the screen would go black. I would try rotating the camera around and the screen would flicker from that viewport gray color to black everynow and then.

I updated my graphics drivers through Nvidia to the most up to date studio drivers. I feel like this is a GPU problem but I have no idea how to solve. Trapcode Particular works just fine with or without DOF but Tao seems to be struggling. And the fact that this doesn't happen on my laptop makes me wonder if it's my RTX 2080s. 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.