Adobe CS5 - Unlocking CS5 to enable All Nvidia CUDA cards

Has anyone successfully unlocked Premiere Pro in CS5 OSX to enable non-"approved" CUDA cards from Nvidia?

I saw the instructions for this (Windows and OSX) here-

http://www.studio1productions.com/Artic ... ereCS5.htm

Scroll down to "Instructions for Mac Users" I have not been able to get this to work on my Hackintoshes in OSX 10.6.7. Anyone succeed and can post better instructions?

I know it works in Windows but since I am using OSX that won't help.

Thanks.

Did you ever get it working? I was considering buying a video card specifically for this purpose but I am worried about actually getting it to work.

I found some other instructions, I forget now but they might have been for older versions of CS and they stated a 768MB 8800GTX would work. I tried it with my 8800GTX but it didn't work, the sniffer gave a message stating something about not being chosen because the card is only CUDA 1.0 capable and it requires 1.3.

I'd be very interested to know if this works too. I'd test it out myself, but I only have a 8600GT, which doesn't meet the requirements unfortunately.

I've found myself doing a lot more After Effects work recently, and with the release of FCP X on the horizon I've been contemplating building a more powerful machine to take advantage of all the background multi-processing that will be supported. Ideally I'd like to build a CUDA supported machine WITHOUT having to fork out the AUD$1000 required for a Quadro 4000.

On a side note, I wonder whether Apple's abandoment of NVIDIA in favour of ATI has anything to do with stifling the appeal of a CUDA supported CS5 Production Suite whilst they got their act together with FCP X? Probably not, but it's a fun conspiracy theory...

I'm running Premiere PRO CS5.5 with Mercury Playback Engine on GPU acceleration mode with my ENGTS 250.
I've installed the last version of CUDA driver and GPUSniffer has recognized my graphic card as CUDA compatible. Then, I added it to cuda_supported_cards.txt and all works fine.

there are many posts in this forum point you to right cards.

I have recently got my GTX480 working on 10.6.7. Took me a few days to work out.
GPU accelerated shows up in PremPro CS5 project window. I havent had chance to test the plug-ins that use CUDA just yet, my tast for the weekend.

previous user who mentioned the 'add to supported cards' hack is the way to do it.

hope that helps.

ok iam pure noob about this why would you want to this

Zoid said:

I'm running Premiere PRO CS5.5 with Mercury Playback Engine on GPU acceleration mode with my ENGTS 250.
I've installed the last version of CUDA driver and GPUSniffer has recognized my graphic card as CUDA compatible. Then, I added it to cuda_supported_cards.txt and all works fine.

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I think the problem is that I cannot find the right text file in OSX- where is it?

I see that you have the same graphic card as me, so you can open Terminal and type:

sudo nano /Applications/Adobe\ Master\ Collection/Adobe\ Premiere\ Pro\ CS5/Adobe\ Premiere\ Pro\ CS5.app/Contents/cuda_supported_cards.txt
(if you have installed CS5.5 version, replace "CS5" with "CS5.5" on the command list)

Add GeForce GTS 250 to cards list, press Ctrl+X, then Y and Enter, that's all!

Have you already installed CUDA drivers? If yes, at least Mercury Playback engine on "software only" mode should be enabled in Premiere (Project setting->general)

I got Leadtek GT240 1GB to work with it... But trust me, on 1080 Full HD monitor, you dont want to use this card... Super Duper Lag... Owh yes, Min 1GB DDR VRAM is MANDATORY....

This topic is a bit older, but I think it's best to append here. I'm running a Hackintosh with a Palit GeForce 460GTX Sonic Platinum which runs stable since I installed Lion except freezing bootup sometimes - but this is another thing. Graphics Driver is the one brought by lion, cuda is the currend driver version 4.0.50.

Now I got Adobe Premiere CS5.5 and tried to activate CUDA-Support for my card. CUDA-Z shows me the card, but gpusniffer "Didn't find any devices that support CUDA." and also Blender, which recently got a cuda render engine build in delivers an error:
Blender-Beta with cycles render enginge supporting CUDA can be found here: http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.61/

Maybe someone has an idea how I could get cuda working properly?

Thanks in advanced for helping information,
macmaster