4 Replies Latest reply: Jul 10, 2014 3:26 PM by wheelswithinwheels RSS

    CC 2014 Update Makes My Mid-2012 Mac Pro Worthless

    wheelswithinwheels Community Member
    wheelswithinwheels Jul 9, 2014 2:27 PM

      Hi All,

       

      I've been a big fan of working in Premiere Pro for about a year. Sure there have been hangups and frustrating technical issues, but nothing you wouldn't experience using Final Cut or Avid. However, the latest big 2014 update has rendered my workstation completely useless. I'm not even sure how to describe all the the things that are happening. Crappy, digitally broken renders, unusable exports, barely existent playback, and crashing. My god, the crashing. Some projects won't even function for 5 minutes before wrecking the system, or even downright shutting down the computer. As in, the computer is running, and then literally 10 seconds later, the computer shuts down entirely on it's own without me touching anything. It's always nice enough to flash a jagged, pixelated render malfunction of some sort right before this happens. I've never experienced such horrifying software problems. And while I have by no means given complete or cohesive scientific descriptions here, I'm just curious if anybody else's life has gone to hell since this update? What and I doing wrong? My computer is only 2 years old! There's no way it can be obsolete already! Below are my specs. Any and all advice/consolation is appreciated.

       

      Mac Pro (Mid 2012)

      Processor: 2 x 2.4 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon

      Memory: 24 GB 1333 Mhz DDR3 ECC

      Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072 MB

      Software: OS X 10.9.4