Software render only is not available

[Evoque Art House]

We just installed latest version of Premiere 2025 (25.2.3)  and it's not possible to render "only software" using CPU. And it's a problem cause our workstation and workflow is based mainly on working usinh our threadripper instead our GPU. Anyone had this problem? How do you solved it?

My specs are:

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-Cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

256 Ram

Asus mainboard.

Warm regards, Demetra

[kglad]

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[Averdahl · Accepted solution]

Press the Shift -key and launch Premiere Pro to launch the Reset options dialog. Check "Use Software Rendering..." and click Continue.

Now you will have what you want, but you need to do it everytime you launch Premiere Pro since Adobe removed the option you/we had before.

...it's not possible to render "only software" using CPU.

By @Evoque Art House

[Evoque Art House]

Super, fixed! Very useful information.  I don't know why but GPU rendering is not only slower (certainly due to an extreme combination of plug-ins) but also less reliable. With powerful processors it is certainly better to export using only software. Thanks

[Sumeet Kumar Choubey]

Hi Evoque Art House,

Are you experiencing issues with any specific plugins? Are these inbuilt or third-party? We would like to know more about the reliability/performance issues that you are experiencing with GPU accelerated renderer.

Thanks,

Sumeet

[Evoque Art House]

Yes, pluginused are:

Maxon Red Giant and Universe

[Evoque Art House]

But I've problem also without plugin. Without GPU rendering are always faster (Apple Pro Res 4444)