Premiere Pro going slow for no reason, 14 core system 64gb ram

[HifiDiaries]

Premiere Pro started going SLOW a few days ago. I've tried uninstalling, and reinstalling. I updated to the newest version, i've tried old versions.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Geoforce 1080 Ti driver (clean) I have the i9 7940 chip, and 64 gb ram.

Literally a few days ago it just started going slow. I had not updated anything.

I have a deadline (of course) in a few days and my computer lags even on proxies. PLEASE HELP

[Wes Howell]

When did the slowdown start happening?

Did you install any new plugins, panels or 3rd party software?

Was there anything else that changed before the slowdown occurred?

[HifiDiaries]

Hey Wes! I have not installed any new plugins for Premiere - but i'd be happy to try wiping clean?

I installed plexus for After Effects a few weeks back.

I will do anything to have this working.

[HifiDiaries]

Sorry not sure how to edit my last post... It started happening this week Monday.

[Wes Howell]

Plexus shouldn't be an issue.

Did you work with VR footage / Insta 360?  Did anything else change over the weekend / Monday, etc?

What version of Premiere Pro are you using? By newest version, are you referring to 13.0.3 or the latest release from Tuesday?

Sound like maybe you're tried both?

Did you recently update your GPU driver?

A sudden slowdown is typically the result of something being changed or altered. 

Please also try the following:

Try this:

• Delete media cache
• Trash preferences

[HifiDiaries]

I don't do VR. I haven't done ANYTHING until today when i couldn't work at all. I saw a bunch of people saying there is a new version released, so I tried that. Didn't do anything.

I am on the very newest version, and I've tried back to CC 2017. (all this morning)

I just did as the 2 links instructed, it's better, but not fixed.

BETTER: It will play a good 2 seconds of footage before freezing. It would just sit and be frozen before.

Even the playhead in the timeline freezes.

[Wes Howell]

If you inspect project settings, is GPU acceleration enabled?

[HifiDiaries]

Yes. Computer is only using SSD's as well. I have a SSD just for cache. I've changed that too to see if it would help.

[Jim Curtis]

Is this slowness on one project or all and any projects? 

If on one project, or some projects, but not all:  You may have corrupted preferences, footage, project, sequence, or plug-in instance.  Any of those can cause slowness, or worse.  Tracking down the culprit is usually a matter of search and destroy:  eliminating each suspect one by one.

If on any and all projects, even brand new simple ones and with different versions of Pr, that suggests the issue is with your OS or hardware.

[HifiDiaries]

Hi Jim, It's on all projects.

I can open After Effects with a 8k raw file, key it, track it, and color it with no problems, machine works as normal.

I can then open Premiere (any version) and have it stuttering with a proxy.

[Wes Howell]

Troubleshooting over a thread can be tricky. I'd love to see you get this issue resoled quickly.

Sorry if some of my replies have been delayed - things are a bit crazy pre-NAB and post ship.

Have you tried Adobe support?  Are you open to giving this a shot?

Did you manually find your media cache folders and delete them in full?

Have you disconnected the proxies?  How are things working with other media?

If you want to continue to try to resolve via this thread, can you provide more details on exactly what is slow? How slow, etc?

Would be great to understand as much about the problem as possible.

You can open a case with support via call or chat at this link: https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html

[HifiDiaries · Accepted solution]

SOLVED:

With the new update to premiere, it seems to have reset or "disconnected" the graphics card. I could watch my CPU and card live monitor and see the card not doing much if anything at all. So I did 2 things:

I powered down, unplugged the card and cleaned, then put back in. The machine is pretty new, but who knows.

The second thing I did was I noticed these settings were changed. I turned Power management to Optimal power, it was on adaptive (the main issue, the new Premiere - I think - isn't turning it on. So crank it up. And 2nd, Vertical sync i turned off, reset computer, and back on.

It's back to normal on the newest version of Premiere.

And I went into