Alienware M17 RTX 2060 hardware encoding unavailable on Premier Pro 2021.

[Suraj5C57]

Previously I had the feature available and was aboe to use it.
After some time it just got disabled!
Not sure if I did something wrong or the support is now gone (highly unlikely)
Please help in restoring it

[Peru Bob]

Are you using the latest Studio Graphics driver?

NVIDIA STUDIO DRIVER

Driver Version: 471.41 - Release Date: Mon Jul 19, 2021

from here:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/