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1. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
lasvideo Nov 1, 2012 5:44 PM (in response to Another Photographer)Its always wise to wait 6 months before upgrading the operating system on an editing system. Otherwise you experience the consequences of living on the bleeding edge of technology.
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2. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
John T Smith Nov 1, 2012 9:28 PM (in response to Another Photographer)This is for the GTX285 http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1084197 but the advice MAY work for your card... use a 2xx driver such as 296.10 or the 295.73 that Ann mentions
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3. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Scott Chichelli Nov 2, 2012 11:49 AM (in response to Another Photographer)Windows 8? why would you do that?
go back to win 7
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4. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Harm Millaard Nov 2, 2012 1:10 PM (in response to Another Photographer)There is no performance gain in Win8 over Win7, apart from the start-up time. There are many drivers/utilities/programs still missing in Win8, so I second Scott feelings. And even the startup time is relative. If you have to wait 45 seconds for your drives to start up, due to staggered spin-up, 20 seconds for POST, 20 seconds to get your user profile, settings, etc. from the server then the 2-3 second gain from Win8 start-up is completely irrelevant.
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5. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Dave Knarr Nov 2, 2012 4:27 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)I can verify there is a problem with the GT 240 video card, among other video cards, with the latest drivers, version 306.97.
I simply rolled the driver back to 301.42 and everything is working fine for me.
Try rolling your driver back.
Dave
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6. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Bill Gehrke Nov 2, 2012 5:34 PM (in response to Another Photographer)I just upgraded to the beta 310.33 nVidia driver with my GTX 285 and it works great. But on the same hardware with my Hackintosh system there is no cure yet for the identical problem.
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7. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Dave Knarr Nov 2, 2012 7:41 PM (in response to Bill Gehrke)Hi Bill,
I just now downloaded and tried the 310.33 beta drive and so far no problems, but I haven't done a lot of testing with it. Before with the 306.97 driver, as soon as I would render the timeline I would get OpenGL errors and Premiemer would crash.
So far that has not happened on the 310.33 beta driver.
Dave
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8. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Another Photographer Nov 2, 2012 8:29 PM (in response to Dave Knarr)Dave,
Where did you find 301.42? I could not find it on nVidia website. I've tried a bunch of versions:
310.33: frequent crashes
306.97: frequent crashes
306.23: frequent crashes
296.10: Mercury playback engine not available
295.73: Mercury playback engine not available
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9. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Dave Knarr Nov 3, 2012 4:41 PM (in response to Another Photographer)Here is the link I went to http://www.geforce.com/drivers/beta-legacy
Then select Geforce 200 Series, then select GT 240 and Windows 7 64 bit.. Then click on search. When the screen refreshs, it will be the 7 driver down the list.
Let me know if you can't find it.
Dave
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10. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Another Photographer Nov 24, 2012 3:31 PM (in response to Dave Knarr)I see two new beta drivers -- 310.54 and 310.61 -- have been released. Do they fix anything?
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11. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Harm Millaard Nov 25, 2012 12:53 AM (in response to Another Photographer)I haven't had any problems with either beta driver yet, but then I'm using a 680/4G and a 480. It sometimes looks to me that older cards, like the 240 are treated as stepchildren, and may not profit from the latest and newest drivers, but that is just the feeling I get from reading posts here.
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12. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
John T Smith Nov 25, 2012 8:27 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)>older cards, like the 240 are treated as stepchildren
Based on messages like this one, and my own experience with a GTX285, I would have to agree that nVidia "may" not perform the same testing with old hardware as with new
I have been happily using driver 296.10 and was VERY surprised when my driver auto-updated to 306.97 - which caused problems
I knew I had not set nVidia to auto update, but it turns out Windows update had picked up the newer driver and installed it with Windows security updates
Once I removed 306.97 and reinstalled 296.10 I also changed my Windows update to "let me decide"
I also did as it says in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff382716.aspx to make sure 306.97 won't even show in my update list
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13. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
canoli99 Nov 25, 2012 2:59 PM (in response to John T Smith)that 306.97 caused strange behavior on my system too. I ran it for 2 weeks and saw horrible artifacts in the Cinema 4D viewports...also a weird stuttering behavior in PPro while previewing the timeline. Once I rolled back to 301.42 everything was fine.
I'm running a GTX 470 on Windows 7 Pro
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14. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Another Photographer Nov 28, 2012 5:05 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Harm Millaard wrote:There is no performance gain in Win8 over Win7, apart from the start-up time. There are many drivers/utilities/programs still missing in Win8, so I second Scott feelings. And even the startup time is relative. If you have to wait 45 seconds for your drives to start up, due to staggered spin-up, 20 seconds for POST, 20 seconds to get your user profile, settings, etc. from the server then the 2-3 second gain from Win8 start-up is completely irrelevant.
I am seeing a different threading/hyperthreading utilization in Windows 8 under Premiere Pro CS6. I've rolled back the driver to 301.42, and so far haven't had a crash (fingers crossed).
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15. Re: nVidia GT 240, Windows 8, totally incompatible with Mercury/Premiere Pro CS6
Another Photographer Dec 14, 2012 5:39 AM (in response to John T Smith)Once I removed 306.97 and reinstalled 296.10 I also changed my Windows update to "let me decide"
I also did as it says in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff382716.aspx to make sure 306.97 won't even show in my update list
I did both of these things, and 306.97 still gets installed.
And 306.97 doesn't show up in the list of installed updates !
Maybe it's because I deleted the folder c:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\301.42 ??? I thought it was a temp folder...I'll try not deleting it and see what happens.





