installed latest CUDA for nvidia; Resolve 8 won't open

[Micheal Del Castillo]

I'm on resolve 8 and just upgraded from Snow Lep to 10.8.5. Resolve said I needed to update my CUDA drivers before using it after the OS X upgrade. So I updated to the latest CUDA and now Resolve 8 will not open at all.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[Nick Pasquariello]

Er, maybe I'm missing something, but since Resolve has free upgrades, why are you 3 years back on it? There are a lot of good features and functions that have been added in the past 3 years.

 

[Micheal Del Castillo]

I know I know I need to move on to the latest. I've just become so comfortable with version 8 that the luddite in me says stay. However I did figure it out- that I needed to roll back on the CUDA driver version to get it to open.

...but your right, I need to bite the bullet in the next couple weeks after I finish this current project.

 

[jake blackstone]

I know I know I need to move on to the latest. I've just become so comfortable with version 8 that the luddite in me says stay. However I did figure it out- that I needed to roll back on the CUDA driver version to get it to open.

...but your right, I need to bite the bullet in the next couple weeks after I finish this current project.

Naaa, just stay on 8 a couple more years. Who needs GPU debayer, new cameras support, the new color science, editing and the round-tripping? Pfff... What's the rush?:biggrin:

 

[Nick Pasquariello]

I know I know I need to move on to the latest. I've just become so comfortable with version 8 that the luddite in me says stay. However I did figure it out- that I needed to roll back on the CUDA driver version to get it to open.

...but your right, I need to bite the bullet in the next couple weeks after I finish this current project.

Well, it's just odd that you're updating your OS and your graphics drivers. BlackMagic has been, thankfully, fairly predictable with major updates. About one a year. And OSX has been, thankfully, fairly predictable with the last few main point releases: roughly one a year. And NVidia seems to make minor CUDA updates every few weeks, with major releases every year or 2.

In other words, there's just no guarantee that the 2011 Resolve would run on the 2012 OS with late-2014 graphics drivers. That's such a funky combination. I assume you updated the OS for reasons other than Resolve. The backend changes between 10.6 and 10.10 are significant; people are still running FCP7 on 10.6 and, really, it's like throwing money out the door at this point.

Personally, I jumped into Resolve first on 7 and was completely LOST. That thing was obtuse. I had to watch a 15 minute Youtube video just to figure out how to get any media at all into it and out of it. 8 was where I really dove in though, and it was much easier. And then 9 was easier. And 10 was more fluid. And 11 even more so. If you're hesitant to change versions because 8 was such a beast to figure out, maybe upgrade one version at a time. It'll probably be better for updating the Resolve database that way, and it will be a smoother transition for you. Plus, I doubt you'll find it as difficult as you thought it would be. I'm a fan of BlackMagic precisely because Resolve has gotten more intuitive with every version. Not to say that I love everything BM has done (the way they draw their waveforms is funky and useless), but on the whole, they do good work.