This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] NVidia Trouble?

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] NVidia Trouble?

I don't think Resolve installs a specific Nvidia display driver on a Mac, nor does it require you to have anything but whats normally included in the Mac OS. Resolve does require a specific CUDA version, but Avid makes no use of CUDA whatsoever…so I doubt that it could wreak any havoc with MC.

Try removing all your third party AVX plugins, and your third party AMA plugins and systematically re-install them.

On Sunday, August 10, 2014, Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> That makes sense, I guess, but I didn't load any new plug-ins in recent memory. (And, of course resolve prefers the right cuda driver, so there is some stuff you have to change from default - but it's never been a problem before.)
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> On Aug 10, 2014, at 1:52 PM, John Pale pale.edit@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> If it's crashing during AVX2 loading, I would be looking at Third party AVX plugins or AMA plugins that might be causing an issue.
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>> Generally on the Mac, you don't need to install special drivers for Nvidia or AMD. The ones that get installed by the OS updates are sufficient. Avid offers no video acceleration via the GPU on the Mac.
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>> On Sunday, August 10, 2014, Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> My symphony/resolve machine has recently stopped running Media composer - it crashes on startup, usually during AVX2
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>> I tried a bunch of stuff to get it working: including reinstalling MC, updating from 10.8.5 to 10.9.4, updating the Nvidia driver.
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>> The last was a disaster and I spent a couple hours back-reving the driver to the one provided by Mac. All that didn't solve the problem, and mucked up the rest of things...
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>> So, I'm currently completely rebuilding the system drive. It was pretty bloated - so I'm not too upset, but the process is a serious time-suck since I also have to add Adobe and FCP7! and I'm sure I'll run into some licensing issues... (Hello, Marianna?)
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>> Anyway, I see some folks in various forums have run into similar trouble - and it's largely been blamed on the Nvidia driver. What is the CORRECT nVidia driver for Media Composer 7.04 on OSx 10.8.5? I can't find this info anywhere - plenty of info about PC drivers, but unclear on Mac. I'm currently using the default driver, but loaded the Cuda recommended by nVidia's website...
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>> Coincidentally firefox stopped working reliably about the same time - coincidence?
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>> [ With only Media Composer loaded, it launches as expected - updating the Nitris - (and less phrasefind, but that's tomorrow's problem) so adding other apps one-by-one. ]
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>> Anyone who can shed expertise on this sudden pita much appreciated.
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>> Greg Huson
>> Secret Headquarters, Inc
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