Neat Video + CUDA + iMac (NVidia GTX 660M) = Crash nightmare
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:03 pm
Running:
OS X 10.10
Final Cut Pro 10.1.3
Neat Video 3.6.0 (64 bit)
This iMac (13,2) has a GeForce GTX 660M with 512MB of VRAM.
According to Nvidia, it supports CUDA.
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Works fine without CUDA driver installed, though very slow (about 4.5 FPS using all 4 cores of CPU.)
I install the CUDA driver to see if I would get any performance gains.
Driver version: 6.5.18
From Nvidia website.
When I select CPU+GPU in Neat Video preferences, the entire iMac freezes up and then restarts.
Before it crashes, I get weird screen artifacts:
Sometimes, I have to clear the NVRAM and repair disk permissions for the machine to start up again. Yesterday, when I finally got the machine rebooted, I received a dialog box that said:
A graphics problem has been detected. Click "Report" to submit report...
[Ignore] [Report]
If you click Ignore, the box kept coming back. I eventually fixed this issue deleting a GPU Restart error log on my Mac.
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Anyway, I'd like to use GPU acceleration, but thus far it is not working.
Currently, I have uninstalled the CUDA driver completely, and Neat Video is behaving.
Help.
OS X 10.10
Final Cut Pro 10.1.3
Neat Video 3.6.0 (64 bit)
This iMac (13,2) has a GeForce GTX 660M with 512MB of VRAM.
According to Nvidia, it supports CUDA.
////
Works fine without CUDA driver installed, though very slow (about 4.5 FPS using all 4 cores of CPU.)
I install the CUDA driver to see if I would get any performance gains.
Driver version: 6.5.18
From Nvidia website.
When I select CPU+GPU in Neat Video preferences, the entire iMac freezes up and then restarts.
Before it crashes, I get weird screen artifacts:
Sometimes, I have to clear the NVRAM and repair disk permissions for the machine to start up again. Yesterday, when I finally got the machine rebooted, I received a dialog box that said:
A graphics problem has been detected. Click "Report" to submit report...
[Ignore] [Report]
If you click Ignore, the box kept coming back. I eventually fixed this issue deleting a GPU Restart error log on my Mac.
///
Anyway, I'd like to use GPU acceleration, but thus far it is not working.
Currently, I have uninstalled the CUDA driver completely, and Neat Video is behaving.
Help.