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July 16, 2019
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Can not enable hardware encoding with GTX 1080

  • July 16, 2019
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I bought a msi geforce gtx 1080 gaming x plus today.

Unfortunately I cannot activate hardware acceleration in Pr.

My system

i7 and 16 GB ram.

How can I solve the problem?

Here the result of the GPUSniffer:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019>gpusniffer

GPUSniffer testing 254

--- OpenGL Info ---

Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

Renderer: GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2

OpenGL Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 431.36 26.21.14.3136

GLSL Version: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler

Monitors: 1

Monitor 0 properties -

   Size: (0, 0, 1920, 1080)

   Max texture size: 32768

   Supports non-power of two: 1

   Shaders 444: 1

   Shaders 422: 1

   Shaders 420: 1

--- GPU Computation Info ---

Found 1 devices supporting GPU computation.

CUDA Device 0 -

   Name: GeForce GTX 1080

   Vendor: NVIDIA

   Capability: 6.1

   Driver: 10.1

   Total Video Memory: 8192MB

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    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Brainiac
    July 16, 2019

    This is a common misunderstanding.

    You enable GPU use in the Project settings dialog, with the Mercury Acceleration options. With your GPU, like mine, it would be CUDA.

    When you see the summary section lines of the Export Dialog referring to software or hardware encoding, those are NOT references to the GPU use at all. Those ONLY appear in H.264 encoding, and are set by whether or not your CPU has the Intel QuickSync hardware included and enabled in the BIOS.

    If your CPU has QuickSync and it's enabled, then your Summary section will say "hardware encoding" for H.264 exports. If you don't have a QuickSync CPU, then it will show 'software encoding' for H.264 exports.

    And again ... this doesn't have anything whatever to do with GPU use.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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      ediths23758511Author
      Participating Frequently
      July 17, 2019

      Thank you for the full explanation.

      What I don't understand is why Adobe recommends GeForce 1080 on its homepage. And why doesn't Adobe mention the Intel QuickSync requirement?

      Ok I will try your suggestion and see if it works.

      Ann Bens
      Ann Bens
      Community Expert
      July 17, 2019

      It does say under Hardware Acceleration System Requirement:

      Adobe Premiere Pro System Requirements

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