About Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration: Works fine with Premiere Pro CC 2015, but not with Premiere Pro CC 2017. Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce CTS 250. What to do?

[janb87266109]

About Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration: Works fine with Premiere Pro CC 2015, but not with Premiere Pro CC 2017. Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce CTS 250. What to do?

[Peru Bob]

With only 128 CUDA cores, I wouldn't have expected it to make much difference with GPU acceleration.

[RjL190365 · Accepted solution]

Starting with the CC 2015.3 release of Premiere Pro, the old Tesla-architecture GPUs (of which your GTS 250 was one) are now officially obsolete. In fact, the GPU that the GTS 250 used dates all the way back to the 8800 GT 512MB from way back in 2007! That's almost 10 years old! And there are no new driver patches for that series of GPUs from Nvidia since April of last year – in other words, Nvidia had already EOSL'd ("End Of Support Life'd") the entire GeForce 200 series GPUs for almost a year now.

As a result, they are now no longer supported by Adobe for CUDA MPE GPU acceleration. Therefore, the only fix is to concede that you'll be permanently locked to the MPE software-only mode for as long as you continue to use that GTS 250, and buy a newer GPU such as a GTX 1050 Ti if you want to use CUDA MPE GPU acceleration.

[janb87266109]

Thanks for youe reaction, it makes me clear that I have to buy a new graphics card!

[RjL190365]

In addition, if your PC is really that old (e.g. a Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad), you might as well save up for an entirely new build since an old PC will have other performance issues in addition to an obsolete GPU.