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- Joined: Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:22 pm
- Real Name: Adam Volpe
Hello,
This is my first post here, go easy on me. I have been using Resolve 12.5 for a year or two on a 6 year old PC and it worked but barely. So I decided to upgrade.
I now have a brand new Dell Precision 5820 with a Xeon 2145 (8 cores at 3.7GHz), 32GB RAM, SSD drives and an Nvidia P4000. Resolve 14.3 on Windows 10 x64 which I literally just installed a week ago so this system is as fresh as can be. Only thing I've really done is install all the drivers and such. Just for reference I have 20 years professional IT experience so I'm savvy enough and willing enough to do just about anything.
The problem is, in Edit mode the playback video and audio stutters constantly and also freezes for several seconds at a time. It is 100% unusable. I have now:
-Set Proxy mode to quarter resolution
-Enabled Performance mode
-Set cache drives to a secondary SSD (not the system drive)
-Render cache set to "Smart"
-Under Preferences -> User -> Performance options I have checked off "hide ui overlays" and "minimum interface updates"
-Under the project master settings, I have the video monitoring format at 720p 59.94fps and video bit to 8bit (instead of 10).
-A variety of other things that I don't quite remember. I tried changing the hardware video settings to opencl vs CUDA, no change from any of those things.
These have all improved the experience dramatically but the FPS counter is still always red and the stuttering is still there. I've found that if I play a clip and then wait a few minutes and play it again it will be much faster this time (render cache or optimized media or something happening in the background?) but it's STILL not smooth, but nearly acceptable at least.
My media is all 1080p 59.94FPS MP4s from a Canon Vixia R800. I'm not sure if there's any other information needed there.
FYI for performance stats, when I'm in Edit mode and doing a playback of a clip (that's stuttering and freezing) the system is basically idling. CPU <25%, memory <25%, all drives <2%, GPU <2%. So Resolve basically isn't even using the hardware at all it seems.
Any advice on other things to try or look at? It doesn't make sense to me that my system 6 years newer than the last is slower than the original. Did 14.3 get a lot worse performance wise than 12.5? Should I go back to 12.5? Upgrade to one of the 15 beta version? Am I missing something here?
Thanks in advance,
Adam
This is my first post here, go easy on me. I have been using Resolve 12.5 for a year or two on a 6 year old PC and it worked but barely. So I decided to upgrade.
I now have a brand new Dell Precision 5820 with a Xeon 2145 (8 cores at 3.7GHz), 32GB RAM, SSD drives and an Nvidia P4000. Resolve 14.3 on Windows 10 x64 which I literally just installed a week ago so this system is as fresh as can be. Only thing I've really done is install all the drivers and such. Just for reference I have 20 years professional IT experience so I'm savvy enough and willing enough to do just about anything.
The problem is, in Edit mode the playback video and audio stutters constantly and also freezes for several seconds at a time. It is 100% unusable. I have now:
-Set Proxy mode to quarter resolution
-Enabled Performance mode
-Set cache drives to a secondary SSD (not the system drive)
-Render cache set to "Smart"
-Under Preferences -> User -> Performance options I have checked off "hide ui overlays" and "minimum interface updates"
-Under the project master settings, I have the video monitoring format at 720p 59.94fps and video bit to 8bit (instead of 10).
-A variety of other things that I don't quite remember. I tried changing the hardware video settings to opencl vs CUDA, no change from any of those things.
These have all improved the experience dramatically but the FPS counter is still always red and the stuttering is still there. I've found that if I play a clip and then wait a few minutes and play it again it will be much faster this time (render cache or optimized media or something happening in the background?) but it's STILL not smooth, but nearly acceptable at least.
My media is all 1080p 59.94FPS MP4s from a Canon Vixia R800. I'm not sure if there's any other information needed there.
FYI for performance stats, when I'm in Edit mode and doing a playback of a clip (that's stuttering and freezing) the system is basically idling. CPU <25%, memory <25%, all drives <2%, GPU <2%. So Resolve basically isn't even using the hardware at all it seems.
Any advice on other things to try or look at? It doesn't make sense to me that my system 6 years newer than the last is slower than the original. Did 14.3 get a lot worse performance wise than 12.5? Should I go back to 12.5? Upgrade to one of the 15 beta version? Am I missing something here?
Thanks in advance,
Adam