GPU SNIFFER NOT WORKING

[nachot6407767]

Hi, i have installed premiere pro cc 2018 and im running it on my "HP 15-ay134ns":

- Windows 10

- Intel® Core™ i7-7500U (2,7 GHz, to 3,5 GHz, 4 MB caché, 2 cores)

- Graphics AMD Radeon™ R7 M440 (4 GB DDR3 dedicated)

- 12 GB DDR4-2133 SDRAM

It runs with no problem, but i can't enable the Open GL acceleration, because the field where you can activate it its on only mercury plaback engine and in color grey with no option to select Open GL.

I tried to open the Gpu sniffer, and it detects the AMD card and says it has Open GL but it also says an error message: *not chosen because of initialization failure.

Help, i would like to activate the Open GL acceleration if possible. i've been looking around the internet and tried diferent things, but nothing seems to work.

Thanks

[RjL190365 · Accepted solution]

You meant "OpenCL", not "OpenGL". OpenGL is only used for interface display purposes.

Also, that Radeon R5 M440 is a really lousy GPU for GPU acceleration to begin with. In fact, it is actually slower and weaker than even the integrated Intel HD Graphics 620 that's on your CPU because it is based on a cut-down version of a low-end GPU that dates back six years and has a much lower memory throughput than even system RAM. Unfortunately, OpenCL support in the currently available Intel drivers (whether from HP or Intel) does not work properly with the 600-series Intel graphics, effectively locking the MPE renderer to the software-only mode.

At any rate, that laptop of yours is almost completely unsuitable for video editing nowadays, since even Premiere effectively requires a quad-core CPU to function comfortably well. Two physical cores can barely cut it for even 720p editing these days.