Carsten Sellberg wrote:Hi.
You posted a Quote to my previous post. And I just wanted to confirm it and add some new information on CPU assisted decoding/encoding.
But I can confirm that 2 GB or less vRam is not recommended for Resolve.
I can also confirm that only Windows 10 is supported. I have read reports that some Windows Administrators/power users have succeed to run most of Resolve functions on Win 7 and 8's. But as I remember, is it not easy.
Regards Carsten.
Yes sir, I guess I am a admin/power user, but in any case, Resolve runs just fine on my W7Pro64 machine. The only issue I'm having is that it won't leverage my GPU. There is not even a drop-down for it under the Codec box, so it seems that something it amiss. As a result, renders are taking a long time and then to make mattes worse, since it's maxing out the CPU, that makes the machine useless for doing anything else while waiting for the render to complete.
I think I understand where that 4GB recommendation is coming from, but at the same time, I'm not working with anything beyond 1080/30p, so I only have 1/4 of the pixels to deal with, compared to 4K. To say nothing of higher resolutions. Honestly, I don't think 1080p is all that hard...I've been dong it for well over a decade on much lesser hardware.
And to be clear, I'm not getting any warnings about resources - Resolve just doesn't surface the required dialog, so there's no way to even turn it on. I'm probably wrong, but I just don't believe that it can't work. Seems a shame to fall back to PowerDirector when Resolve seems better in every way except for rendering performance. But I need Windows 7, so I can't reasonably change that part right now. I could throw a different video card at it, but I have read in this forum where others are getting good results with 2GB cards, so the 4GB minimum does not seem to be set in stone.
This reminds me of the time that my internet speed was not what it should have been, but Comcast refused to address it because my modem was not on their preferred hardware list. I had to replace the modem in order to prove that there was nothing wrong with the existing one. Only then would they address the actual problem. Once they finally fixed it, I went back to the original modem, and it worked just fine, just as I had suspected all along. Even now, i have a spare cable modem.
Very frustrating.
-Mark