Premiere Pro CC2018 / disable GPU (performance issue)

[florianh54339473]

Hi all,

I have a question regarding the GPU usage when rendering a video from Premiere Pro CC 2018.

We have a workstation PC that is only used for renedering videos ... this machine has an i7, 16GB Ram, a SSD harddrive, but no special graphic card - so when rendering videos the used graphic card is the bottleneck .. all other ressources are lazy at approx. 30-40% workload but the graphic adapter is on 99% and rendering takes a great deal of time (far more than expected on that computer).

Does anyone know a way to disabled GPU rendering ... let the CPU do the workload ... I havn't found any setting regarding this special issue.

Hope someone is out there with a good idea to boost performace (except buying an expensive graphic card for this computer)

cheers,

Florian

[kulpreet singh · Accepted solution]

Hi Florian,

The GPU will only accelerate the processing of GPU based video effects, including the Lumetri color effect, scaling, frame conversion, blending modes, deinterlacing, and color space conversion.

If you want to disable GPU acceleration and want to put everything on CPU, click on File > Project settings > General & change the video renderer to 'MPE Software Only'.

Thanks,

Kulpreet Singh