GTX 780 crashes Premiere Pro CC

Hey ppl,

I just built another hackie using UP5 and GTX 780, works fantastic for everything except for Premiere Pro. It crashes upon opening. I thought there was something wrong with my install so I reinstalled from scratch and it still crashes. Decided to try using my GTX 680 from other hackie in UP5 build, and Premiere Pro CC works! Anybody else experiencing this?

Maybe the GTX 7xx cards are too new and programs like Premiere Pro can't use them for the time being.

Maybe. Though I would've expected the card to crash After Effects as well and all the other apps Adobe that uses CUDA.

I think it's because OpenCL isn't supported on this card by either the ML 10.8.4 built-in driver or the web driver right now (nor the latest 10.8.5 dev.).

This looks like a similar problem on Windows:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5421632


Just got a GTX 780 SC ACX yesterday, so I'm going through similar issues right now. I currently have a GTX 660Ti. The PowerColor 7970 I tried may have been 3x faster, but would crash Capture One Pro within minutes (when using OpenCL). Also tried a GTX 680 4GB which runs well, but it gives minimal perceptible improvement. When OpenCL becomes supported on the GTX 780 I should get about 2x the performance, plus stability and smoothness.


They all work fine in Capture One under Windows, but I need it for OS X. It's a beautiful card, so I don't want to take it back, but don't know how long I can wait for full support.

I agree the card is a great step up from the previous gen. It's sad to see that PPro is the only one that crashes, I would've expected all Adobe apps to crash. I'll be patient and hopefully support will happen for this card. I wonder if it'll work on 10.9 later upon release.

Fortunately OpenCL works on the GTX 780 on the latest 10.9 Preview. For some reason Luxmark scores are about 10% better than on Windows 8.0 (although Windows 8.1 reportedly has nVidia performance improvements too). So it's likely there will be support when Mavericks is released, at least.

Capture One Pro still won't enable OpenCL on it, however. I read elsewhere that about 2/3 of the memory isn't being utilized on these cards under the Preview - probably not getting reported correctly to the apps. C1Pro needs 1GB VRAM minimum, so this may be the problem. Not sure whether or not Adobe software is working OK with it.


Note that currently Adobe Pr CC doesn't officially support the GTX 780 on either Windows or Mac, whereas the GTX 680 is supported on both platforms:

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html


EDIT: Premiere Pro CC loads OK and recognizes that OpenCL is running on an Uncertified card, but allows it to be used. I've no idea whether or not it's performing as expected, however.

Thanks for the insider info on Mavericks. I'll be patient and wait until official release. At least my other hackies can run PProCC

Just to Chip in i have the same issue with Premiere CC. Interestingly (and rather confusingly) CS6 loads and will run happily - its only Premiere CC that crashes on launch - all other apps seem to be running fine.

Its a beast of a Card, have to admit im really pleased i dropped the cash for it - this is the only bug/issue i've got with it at the moment, hoping with Mavericks release and some newer drivers it will soon be clean sailing!!

I have the issue in PPro CC. CS6 works fine with the 780 but CC crashes before starting. I ran out to Fry's and got a GTX 650 to sustain me until the bug is fixed. I had laugh as pulled out the GTX780 so I could "upgrade" to the 650. lol

Question, can you open DVD player without it crashing?

I was running into the same problem with After Effects CC. I had to turn GraphicsEnabler=yes on in my org.chameleon.boot.plist. Solved the problem, of course it gave me other issues, but with that flag enabled I can open After Effects and DVD player no longer crashes.