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avid83
avid83
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October 27, 2021
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Premiere v22 laggy timeline. GPU not being used for timeline playback.

  • October 27, 2021
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I installed Premiere v22 and tested a few video clips. The timeline is unplayable and not as smooth as v15.4.1. I opened the AMD Radeon Software to check performance metrics. On v15.4.1 I could see utilization as high as 100%. On v22, I can see sporadic utilization as high as 23% during playback and very high CPU utilization. Anyway just curious to see if anyone else is experiencing worse timeline performance. For me I have to go back to using v15.4.1 as v22 performance is poor and unusable. 

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    willclegg
    Known Participant
    October 28, 2021

    I have not monitored my performance metrics, but I found premiere v22 unusable so far. I have an RTX 3080 gpu and when I try to playback a timeline that works smooth as butter in v15.4.1, v22 chokes and stutters and the GPU fans are as loud as they could be. Something's not right here. 

      avid83
      avid83Author
      Participant
      October 28, 2021
      I agree that something is not right with this new release of Premiere
      (v22). If timeline performance is worse than the previous version of
      Premiere then the devs must have broken something. I have tried clearing
      the cache, reinstalling v22, restarting my computer, reverting to a
      previous AMD gpu driver, and yet timeline performance runs like mud.

      Just have to stick with version 15.4.1 for now until an update is
      available.

      Also worth mentioning is that if you have Windows 11 and have experienced
      worse performance make sure to run updates. New updates have fixed
      performance issues and a laundry list of other issues. In addition if you
      have an AMD CPU you might get worse performance as well. AMD has released
      new updates to fix performance with Windows 11. The fix in my case was to
      run Windows updates and uninstall old AMD chipset drivers and reinstall
      with newest chipset drivers available on the AMD website.
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      Baffy19
      Legend
      October 28, 2021

      In addition, Playhead freezes and disappears after a while when watching clips on the timeline when using the JKL keyboard shortcut. If you speed up two or three times CRASH

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