System Compatibility Report - After Effects

[Sus78]

I have recently started using After Effects. As soon as I opened it an error message appeared saying "System Compatibility Report - Video Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 Unsupported video driver" and a link to "Fix" the issue.

I followed the link to fix it and installed the driver they recommended. For a few days this seemed to fix the issue but then the same error message appeared sending to the same fix link.

Any ideas what that's all about? If I don't keep re-installing it my exports seem to be glitched.

[Mylenium]

Impossible to know without exact system info. Chances are Windows "fixed" an issue and rolled back your driver or something else like a different DLL version from an update messed up things. Likewise, other applications and in particular games have a habit of switching around configurations and not always corectly reverting them upon program termination. Could be a million things. In any case, a lot more specific info would be required. Start by checking your device manager and system graphics settings as well as the relevant hardware acceleration options in AE and AME.

Mylenium

[Sus78]

Thanks Mylenium - That all sounds very technical. Wish I'd stuck to my mac origins and not bought a PC laptop 😞 Will see if I can deceipher the issue at the weekend.

[nishu_kush · Accepted solution]

Hi Sus78,

Thanks for reaching out.

Try installing the latest version of Intel GPU driver: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/88355/Intel-HD-Graphics-520

Here's how to install: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005629/graphics.html

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,

Nishu

[Sus78]

Hi Nishu,

Thanks for the advice - I installed the 2nd driver as it was compatible, but this gave me a glitched green striped screen within the AE preview screen. The newer version (1st driver) fixes this but is too advanced for my laptop and means that although I can view a nice clear screen it doesn't play back at all. Will see if I can find a work-around.

S.

[Rameez_Khan]

Hey S.

In that case, you can install the 3rd driver on that list which is an older version. That should work fine!

-Rameez

[Sus78]

I take it back! After restarting it seems to be fine with the first driver 🙂

Thanks so much for everyone's help on this! Really appreciate it.

All the best

S.