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February 14, 2019
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Rendering only uses 18% of my CPU

  • February 14, 2019
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I think the Title sais it all. I use the media encoder and the maximum CPU usage i get is 27% and most of the time it is 18%

I can't find any settings that force 100% CPU usage, can you help me?

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    Participating Frequently
    February 19, 2019

    had same issue with my pc processor , never went over 20 -30% rarely up to 60% (just few times), but then i upgraded my ram from 32GB to 64 - BIG BOOM , up to 92% of usage!!! pc is different animal now, big bump!

    i did read here before that there would be no difference to go higher then 32 , but it meters!

    i get real performance boost! i see it during color correction with film convert... and running through the footage in the time line,... now i have no delays , and i can play preview in FULL during color correction ... before, after some color correction i was not able to play the footage, only preview individual frames... 92% RAM USED during rendering , also i can now Convert and Save files much faster, not just some %% but like 3-5 times faster

    i came to conclusions that there is a needs to have a certain amount of RAM per Core to be able to use its full power

    TheBommelAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 19, 2019

    ahhhh good to know! BUT why is my ram also far from being fully used ? the usage right now is around 16gb ... i will try it soon if it makes a difference.

    But right now even the Cpus that are working are not working 100% but also only 30-60% with some random peaks

    TheBommelAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 8, 2019

    I updated to 64gb it changed not a bit :/

    Any help so far ? are there Bios settings or something like that i might missed or drive

    Peru Bob
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    February 14, 2019
    R Neil Haugen
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    February 14, 2019

    A full listing of your hardware, media, and effects would help illuminate this question.

    This could be simply because there's not enough internal bandwidth on your disc-access for the media involved. It could be because your RAM is minimal and can't go any faster therefore limiting the CPU. Or about a dozen other things.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    TheBommelAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 15, 2019

    Hi!

    Thanks for the answer

    I have a

    AMD Threadripper 2970wx (24cores/48Threads)

    a Nvidia gtx 1080

    32gb Ram

    and my workfiles are on my 1tb main SSD

    here is a screenshot of the Taskmanager and so on

    Dropbox - Screenshot 2019-02-14 22.58.27.png

    I'm not at the studio until Monday but it will run some benchmarks then to check if everything works as expected

    i hope that helped.

    Is there a way to force premiere to use 100% or

    that it has the main priority on my pc ?

    Or could it be a driver or software issue?

    TheBommelAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 15, 2019

    ... oh sorry i forgot the effects and media. These are 4k 8bit h264 files with lumetri adjustments and red giant looks and a red giant universe