Dear Sony. Please update to support new Nvidia GPU

kodack10 wrote on 6/16/2013, 2:52 AM

I upgraded to a GTX 660 almost a month ago and it's killing me not having GPU accelerated rendering. I've basically stopped posting on youtube and it's driving me nuts because I don't have hours to spend rendering files. When are you going to patch Vegas to support the latest Nvidia hardware?

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Larry Clifford wrote on 6/16/2013, 6:39 AM

I also have a GTX 660, 2 MB, 9.18.13.1422 driver. Anything to help me would be appreciated.

Kodack10, I hope you realize that the majority of development or updates goes to Vegas Pro. Just look at the number of new builds they have for 12.

musicvid10 wrote on 6/16/2013, 8:41 AM

That's just not correct.
Many of the new features in Vegas over the past five years were introduced in Movie Studio first, often several months before they appeared in Vegas Pro.
GPU assist is one example. Another is video stabilization.

That being said, Sony is not likely to push an update every time a new video card is released. Watch for a rollout of new features possibly around the end of the year. We worked for many years without GPU assist, and many of us still do.

Markk655 wrote on 6/16/2013, 3:27 PM

Musicvid is right on the money. The gains are small for the NVIdia cards. I use a GTX650Ti and only get ~10% time savings during rendering.

Is your new card not identified/supported? Are you using the mopst recent NVidia drivers?

MSmart wrote on 6/16/2013, 8:43 PM

You may want to downgrade your driver to an older version:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=858968

Not sure if it will help but worth a try.

FIW, for my new build, I'm now leaning towards a i7-4770 (no K) and plan to use its on-board HD 4600 graphics - foregoing a discrete GPU for now:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-4770k-haswell-review,3521-3.html

(musicvid, page 17 has a Handbrake encoding comparison you may be interested in.)

kodack10 wrote on 6/24/2013, 1:09 AM

Guys I know you're trying to help but these are all easy things I've already tried and that don't work.

I'm able to select GPU acceleration, it reports CUDA is available, When it actually renders it's the exact same speed as CPU only. I run it on my other pc which has an ancient GTX260 and it renders roughtly 4 times faster with dual core CPU/GTX260 than my Quad core/GTX660 does.

I don't buy the "10%" improvement on GPU, either you have a very slow graphics card, or a very fast CPU or both.

Sony doesn't have to update Vegas to work with every new video card, they built it using an older version of the CUDA developers kit and the new line of Nvidia cards, upon which even low end cards will soon be based, is not supported in vegas due to the older cuda code.

musicvid10 wrote on 6/24/2013, 8:15 AM

I'm 100% certain they are working on it.

You can submit a feature request through the links at the top of the page, and you may get a response; however doing so is unlikely to alter Sony's development timeline, which is generally not discussed in advance.

In the meantime, you can still use your graphics card, right?

Markk655 wrote on 7/7/2013, 8:42 PM

"I'm able to select GPU acceleration, it reports CUDA is available, When it actually renders it's the exact same speed as CPU only. I run it on my other pc which has an ancient GTX260 and it renders roughtly 4 times faster with dual core CPU/GTX260 than my Quad core/GTX660 does. "

How much processor is being used in the quad set up during render? Have you tried putting the GTX260 in the quad machine?