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🔧 Premiere Pro Not Detecting CUDA with GTX 1660 — GPU Acceleration Greyed Out

  • July 1, 2025
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Hello, everyone.

I'm having an issue with Adobe Premiere Pro: the software does not detect my GPU and does not allow me to switch the Mercury Playback Engine to CUDA.

Despite having a fairly powerful machine, I'm experiencing performance issues even with basic video edits, likely due to the lack of GPU acceleration.

System Information:

  • CPU: Intel Core i7-9700 @ 3.00GHz

  • RAM: 64 GB

  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

  • OS: Windows 11 Pro (Version 23H2 - Build 22631.5549)

  • Premiere Pro: Latest version installed

Here’s what I’ve already tried:

  • Reinstalled NVIDIA drivers (clean install)

  • Updated Premiere Pro to the latest version

  • Checked NVIDIA Control Panel settings

  • Verified Premiere’s hardware acceleration settings

Still, CUDA remains grayed out and unavailable in the project settings.

Has anyone faced this issue or knows how to force Premiere to recognize CUDA with the GTX 1660? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Olá, amigos.

Estou enfrentando um problema com o Adobe Premiere Pro: o programa não reconhece a minha placa de vídeo e não ativa a opção de alternar o renderizador Mercury Playback Engine para CUDA.

Mesmo possuindo um computador razoavelmente potente, estou tendo dificuldades até para editar vídeos simples, devido à ausência de aceleração por GPU.

Informações do sistema:

  • Processador: Intel Core i7-9700 @ 3.00GHz

  • RAM: 64 GB

  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

  • Sistema: Windows 11 Pro (Versão 23H2 - Compilação 22631.5549)

  • Premiere Pro: Última versão disponível

Já tentei de tudo: reinstalei drivers da NVIDIA, atualizei o Premiere, verifiquei configurações no painel da NVIDIA e até mexi nas preferências do próprio software. Ainda assim, a opção CUDA permanece desativada.

Alguém da comunidade pode me orientar ou já passou por esse problema? Agradeço qualquer ajuda.




    Correct answer R Neil Haugen

    Grayed out means it's in use. They reversed the behavior from the previous option. Now, if Prremiere sees a usable GPU, you can only deselect at launch, by holding the Shift key down. That's why it's grayed out, as you cannot deselect within Premiere now.

     

    That said, the 1660 is I believe about the oldest 'format' of the 1000 series cards, more akin in many ways to the 900 cards. Which are no longer usable at all.

     

    So that 1660 is barely noticeable in use in Premiere at this time. Sadly. 

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    RjL190365
    Legend
    July 5, 2025

    You've got things a bit mixed up. As another poster stated, beginning with version 25.2 of Premiere Pro, you can no longer access software-only rendering within the Premiere Pro or Media Encoder settings. And if that GTX 1660 is the only GPU installed in your system, and you have not enabled the Integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630 that's on your i7-9700 CPU, then you're permanently locked to CUDA "accelerated" rendering, while with the integrated GPU enabled you can only choose CUDA or OpenCL for rendering (and OpenCL will utilize only the UHD Graphics 630 for rendering).

     

    The only way that you can access software-only rendering at all would be to hold down the Shift key and then check the box marked "Use software only rendering" (this choice is one of the five choices in Premiere Pro's troubleshooting mode).

      S
      Community Manager
      Sumeet Kumar ChoubeyCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      July 2, 2025

      Hi Mauricio Filho jornalista,

       

      Sorry about the confusion. Currently, the option to switch Renderer is only available on systems with both CUDA and OpenCL capabilities. If you have a system with only NVIDIA-based GPUs, the CUDA-based Renderer will be used, and the option to switch it will be greyed out. So in this case, the playback engine is using CUDA, and the greyed-out state just indicates that there is no other renderer to switch to. Also, the option to switch to Mercury Playback Engine Software Only has been removed since v25.2. You can learn more about this here. Hope it helps.

       

      If you are experiencing performance issues, it could be due to other factors that can be checked. Please let us know the type of media files you are working with (format, frame rate, & frame size) and the effects applied. It will help us get an idea about the complexity of the timeline.

       

      Thanks,

      Sumeet

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        Mauricio Filho jornalistaAuthor
        Participating Frequently
        July 21, 2025

        Obrigado pela a resposta. Esclareceu muito.
        Agora pos, toda vez que estou a editar qualquer vídeo, Ful HD ou Maiores, a linha do tempo, fica travando, e o gráfico do áudio, fica confuso, sendo, que as marcações das vozes, ficam em lugares diferetes na timeline. Ou seja, vídeos trazando na edição, e grafico de voz, onge do arquivo de vídeo, não acompanhando a expressão vocal.
        Esse é o problema recorrente que está impedindo meu trabalho.
        Por isso, eu tive a dúvida acima.
        Que indicam que minha placa de vídeo NVIDIA, não estava sendo usada para renderização da linha do tempo do Premiere Pró. Á meses que não trabalho por conta desse problema, e estou pensado em mudar de programas de edição por conta disso.

        Ishan Y
        Ishan Y
        Inspiring
        August 29, 2025

        Does this happen with a specific file type or project? Please create a new post in the Premiere Pro Community and share the properties of the files that are affected by the issue you mentioned. For the problem with the GPU hardware acceleration being greyed out, please be assured that it doesn't point towards Premiere Pro not detecting your GPU (as Sumeet mentioned). 

        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
        Legend
        July 1, 2025

        Grayed out means it's in use. They reversed the behavior from the previous option. Now, if Prremiere sees a usable GPU, you can only deselect at launch, by holding the Shift key down. That's why it's grayed out, as you cannot deselect within Premiere now.

         

        That said, the 1660 is I believe about the oldest 'format' of the 1000 series cards, more akin in many ways to the 900 cards. Which are no longer usable at all.

         

        So that 1660 is barely noticeable in use in Premiere at this time. Sadly. 

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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        Mauricio Filho jornalistaAuthor
        Participating Frequently
        July 1, 2025

        Obrigado pela a resposta, muito obrigado mesmo.

          Ann Bens
          Community Expert
          Ann BensCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          July 1, 2025

          Software rendering update

          nishu_kush
          nishu_kush
          Legend
          July 1, 2025

          That's not ideal.

          Can you try the solution mentioned in the following community thread: https://adobe.ly/4lTqkJJ

          Let us know if it helps. Moving the thread to the Premiere Pro Community.


          Thanks,
          Nishu

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          Mauricio Filho jornalistaAuthor
          Participating Frequently
          July 1, 2025

          Obrigado eu, pela a resposta

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