Da Vinci Resolve Lite version 11b and GTX-670.

[Robert Hart]

Given that it seems red users are both familiar with video cards and Resolve at their hottest and fastest, I am here to seek your good counsel.

At long last, I have scratched a few coins together and fiished assembling another editing computer after age and attitrition took the last one down for the count.

Da Vinci Lite 10b plays okay on it and played okay on the older computer before it dummyspat. On the old one it rendered at 6FPS so I am assuming the Cuda function was working. The video cards are GTX-670.

Da Vinci Lite 11b puts up a tile warning CUDA is not enabled and to update the drivers. I did and the same story applies. There was a third party fix called "CUDA" and that didn't work either.

Either these video cards are a dead loss or there is some simple thing I am missing.

The current computer is built around an ASUS P9X790 PRO motherboard, 16Gb memory, the two GTX-670 and Intel i7-3930K 3.2GHz CPU.

My workflow is a little more modest than RED origination, 2048 x 1172 from the SI2K. It is not mission-critical that Resolve 11b works but it would be a bonus if it did.

If anybody has any clues for a luddite, they would be much appreciated.

 

[Paul Russell]

I am also having issues with resolve 11b not kicking in CUDA at the moment

 

[Robert Hart]

Paul.


I was advised on BM's site that I should try the Geforce driver v335.23. It took a bit of finding. Once installed, Resolve not longer reported not being able to find the GeFforce cards and worked.

The previous latest driver I could find was v327 which didn't work.

I have since run into an issue with the USB mouse and USB keyboard locking up as soon as any image, monitor, timeline monitor ot thumbnail in the media pool was touched by the mouse cursor. I was previously advised with the old troublesome computer which eventually died, that that the USB and memory channels could get antagonistic and cause problems.

The memory is 1600 but the BIOS was autoselecting 1333. Manually selecting 1600 seemed to be some help but one has to be very patient and gentle not to rush the computer too soon after getting it to do something. Maybe faster memory will help.

My computer is on the bottom end of what Resolve needs to function.

 

[Paul Russell]

Robert

I'm running bios 337.88 fine. I spent a bit of time with JB from Resolve Singapore today on Teamviewer. She thinks one of the issues might be that I have 5 GTX Titans where they only recommend 4. It's running relatively fine now, except a 6K clip recorded at 7:1 compression is running at 15fps where a clip recorded at 13:1 compression is attaining 25fps. We've proved it's not a disc bottleneck issue so BM have th working files and are looking at it. Otherwise it looks much more stable than beta 1 and I'm feeling a lot more confident with it.

 

[Robert Hart]

Hello Paul.

Thnks for your response. I got it sorted by upgrading the motherboard BIOS to the last version before they changed it to .CAP file updates. I could not get the alteration to .CAP file format to take so have let best be as the last version seems to have sorted the instability issue.

I got the sack off the Blackmagic Forum before I could thank responders to my request there for their advice and assistance. A small matter of using real names. I could not work out how to change it from DARANGLAFILM after warning messages. I assumed with my details in the reply, the forum administrator would do it but it seems not.

I am not bright with computers and web at the best of times so I'll just let it be.

If anyone here also visits BM's own forum, if they could reply for me on the "Windows" topic thread referencing "Resolve Lite 11b and GTX-670" and relay my thanks for assistance in getting it sorted, this would be appreciated. ( not another thread around the same time which references the GTX-760 )