Anyone Using GTX 260 GPU with PPro Mercury Playback Engine?

[George Tyndall]

Are there any issues, such as overheating due to the increased use of the GPU memory?

[Paul LS]

I dont have any issues with it overheating... although it does drop out sometimes and comes up with a message that it has lost communication with the driver (or something similar). I thought this might be because I was running it in a PCI-express type 1 slot, but I tried it in a new motherboard with the recommended type 2 but it made no difference. I can still use it... but from time-to-time it would drop out while rendering.

With my GTX-470 card, an Adobe CS5 approved type I have not seen this issue.

[George Tyndall]

I dont have any issues with it overheating... although it does drop out sometimes and comes up with a message that it has lost communication with the driver (or something similar). I thought this might be because I was running it in a PCI-express type 1 slot, but I tried it in a new motherboard with the recommended type 2 but it made no difference. I can still use it... but from time-to-time it would drop out while rendering.

With my GTX-470 card, an Adobe CS5 approved type I have not seen this issue.

Paul, is that "drop out" occurring with the latest actual NVIDIA driver for the GTX 260, which is 273.55?

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

... although it does drop out sometimes and comes up with a message that it has lost communication with the driver (or something similar).... .

I got that message with my nVidia GTS250 too. Sometimes - too regularly for my liking - PPro would lock up entirely which meant a system restart. For my workflow, which is standard tape based HD and not AVCHD, I "undid" the hack and all is back to normal.

[Paul LS]

Paul, is that "drop out" occurring with the latest actual NVIDIA driver for the GTX 260, which is 273.55?

No, it was with an older driver, I havent tried the latest.

John, I only got the loss of communication with the driver message from time to time when running with the hardware Mercury engine selected, it gives hugh increases in performance when working with AVCHD files on the timeline and when rendering out. If I had issues I would just switch back to the software Mercury engine and continue.

[fincaman]

Hello I use a gtx 460 and it works great, mine is a Palit 17% manufacturer overclocked. You have to apply the "Premiere Pro hack" to get it working with Mercury but this is very easy
Regards

Kevin

[George Tyndall]

Paul, is that "drop out" occurring with the latest actual NVIDIA driver for the GTX 260, which is 273.55?

No, it was with an older driver, I havent tried the latest.

John, I only got the loss of communication with the driver message from time to time when running with the hardware Mercury engine selected, it gives hugh increases in performance when working with AVCHD files on the timeline and when rendering out. If I had issues I would just switch back to the software Mercury engine and continue.

For the MPE to work with my GTX260 after "unlocking" PPCS5, i first had to to install the latest driver from NIVIDA.

The problem with THAT was that I could no longer open the NVIDIA control panel, so I had to roll back the driver.

Fortunately, I don't currently have a need for PPCS5 and the MPE, as the PRE/PSE7 bundle can do all (actually, more) than I require to create slide shows.

But if ever I do require PPCS5's capability, what would the next step be?