nVidia Quadro GPU for Video preview issue resolved yet?

Cliff Etzel wrote on 1/29/2017, 12:33 PM

Any word yet on those of us who are using nVidia based cards in laptops for GPU acceleration for timeline preview? I honestly dont' know if its working or not sice everything I see in VP13 v 535 and VP14 v211 shows nothing regarding my graphics card being seen (Quadro FX880M - I know it's old but my Dell Precision M4500 is a solid laptop with a true quad core processor, 16GB RAM and SSD boot drive and external RAID via esata)

Are there specific older graphics drivers that will resolve this issue? Should I revert to a previous version of VP13? I'm finding my post workflow efficiiency is suffering more and more with the rock solid stability, but laborious workflow, especially for audio, in PPro CS6. 😕

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astar wrote on 1/29/2017, 1:55 PM

It won't happen. Upgrade that machine, it was designed for photoshop... maybe.

Laptop chipset are geared for power reduction, and they fuzz the numbers to make you think you have desktop part numbers. Still happening with the latest portable devices.

Just compare the numbers below.

VP11 minimum recommended card:

Pixel Rate:13.60 GPixel/s

Texture Rate:34.0 GTexel/s

Floating-point performance:1,360.0 GFLOPS

Quadro FX880M:

Pixel Rate:4.40 GPixel/s

Texture Rate:8.80 GTexel/s

Floating-point performance:116.16 GFLOPS

Fury-x (cira June 2015):

Pixel Rate:67.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate:268.8 GTexel/s

Floating-point performance:8,602 GFLOPS

Cliff Etzel wrote on 5/29/2017, 6:48 PM

As a follow up to this issue - I installed the earliest supported driver for my Dell M4500 Quadro FX880M graphics card and all of a sudden Vegas sees my GPU... Quadro driver 297.03 to be precise... Go figure...