Davinci Resolve 17 Beta 4 doesn't playback smoothly

Hi Everyone,

Hope the community can help me!

So exciting to see how DR has evolved. I want so much to play in the 17 Beta. I have tried all betas and can't get my system to perform like the version I am using now (16.3.0011). Using this version is like cutting butter. I have downloaded all 12K footage from BMD's website and I can edit with the footage perfectly. We are seriously considering buying one or more of these camera's but feel that the new version of DR needs to be in place to really monopolize on the technology.

PROBLEM: All DR 17 betas don't playback smoothly even with no color correction. I have tried 12K footage, 4K PNG animation streams, RED footage, AVC footage. Even 1080P footage doesn't have a reliable and consistent playback stream. I can even optimize the footage and or smart cache footage and still don't get great playback.

Normally I don't even cache footage because playback on my system is typically smooth enough to do my editing.

FYI, I have Maya on this system as well and have found that disabling Hyperthreading on my AMD system vastly improves stability. This is especially true with Fusion as well. If my computer ever freezes it is usually a Fusion issue. I have been editing for a while now with 16 and it has been mostly stable.

Given the power of my system, I wouldn't think that DR 17 should be giving me a problem. Below is my system for reference:

Thanks,

Bjarne

Processor
Windows 10 Professional (x64) Version 2009 (build 19042.685)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)
Installed: 10/9/2020 2:22:26 PM
Boot Mode: UEFI with successful Secure Boot
3.75 gigahertz AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core
1536 kilobyte primary memory cache
8192 kilobyte secondary memory cache
32768 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (16 total)
Not hyper-threaded

Main Circuit Board
Board: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG ZENITH EXTREME Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: 170808564400571
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
UEFI: American Megatrends Inc. 2001 07/31/2019

Drives
HL-DT-ST BD-RE WP50NB40 USB Device [Optical drive]
ATTO DataGroup00 SCSI Disk Device (5000.93 GB) -- drive 3, s/n 47397439db7f4077e2f8e22d2554559300000000
ATTO RAID500 SCSI Disk Device (15002.71 GB) -- drive 4, s/n e31287db6b4f1b1699096975b4b4e5d000000000
ATTO RAID5SSD00 SCSI Disk Device (4096.58 GB) -- drive 2, s/n dd5b244d60b4ac44ff76bc5ccc4fe41800000000
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB [Hard drive] (512.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 0025_3856_71B1_1F3E.
Samsung SSD 970 PRO 512GB [Hard drive] (512.11 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 0025_385A_81B0_63D3.

Memory Modules
130948 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM 0' has 16384 MB
Slot 'DIMM 1' has 16384 MB
Slot 'DIMM 0' has 16384 MB
Slot 'DIMM 1' has 16384 MB
Slot 'DIMM 0' has 16384 MB
Slot 'DIMM 1' has 16384 MB
Slot 'DIMM 0' has 16384 MB
Slot 'DIMM 1' has 16384 MB

Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 511.43 GB 213.49 GB free
w: (NTFS on drive 1) 512.11 GB 51.27 GB free
x: (NTFS on drive 2) 4096.58 GB 745.60 GB free
y: (NTFS on drive 3) 5000.80 GB 3989.29 GB free
z: (NTFS on drive 4) 15002.58 GB 11506.95 GB free
* Operating System is installed on c:

Network Drives
mounted by threadripperDude at 12/14/2020 11:47:43 AM
v: \\seagate-nas1\storageserver 11897.58 GB
2619.54 GB free

Controllers
Standard SATA AHCI Controller (3x)

Display
NVIDIA Quadro P4000 [Display adapter] (TWO CARDS)
HP 2710 [Monitor] (27.2"vis, s/n 3CQ035BTG7, August 2010)
HP 2710 [Monitor] (27.2"vis, s/n 3CQ0251MT8, June 2010)

Bus Adapters
ATTO ExpressSAS R608 RAID Adapter
Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller
Standard NVM Express Controller (2x)
AMD USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.0 (Microsoft) (2x)
AMD USB 3.10 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.10 (Microsoft)
ASMedia USB 3.1 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.10 (Microsoft)

Multimedia
Blackmagic DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G
Blackmagic DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G Audio
Blackmagic DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G AVStream
NVIDIA High Definition Audio (2x)
Realtek High Definition Audio
USB Sound Device

Communications
Intel(R) I211 Gigabit Network Connection

Other Devices
Line In (Blackmagic DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G Audio)
Microphone (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Speakers (2- USB Sound Device )
Speakers (Blackmagic DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G Audio)
HID UPS Battery
System Firmware
American Power Conversion USB UPS
HID-compliant consumer control device (3x)
HID-compliant device (5x)
HID-compliant system controller
HID-compliant vendor-defined device (4x)
USB Input Device (12x)
EPSON80314B (XP-960 Series)
EPSONBE2B13 (WF-4730 Series)
HID Keyboard Device (3x)
HID-compliant mouse
Adobe PDF
EPSON WF-4730 Series (FAX)
EPSON80314B (XP-960 Series)
EPSONBE2B13 (WF-4730 Series)
Fax
HP LaserJet P2035
Microsoft Print to PDF
Microsoft XPS Document Writer
OneNote for Windows 10
RemotePC Printer
Root Print Queue
Send To OneNote 2013
WF-4730 Series(Network)
XP-960 Series(Network)
AMD PSP 3.0 Device (2x)
EPSON80314B (XP-960 Series)
EPSONBE2B13 (WF-4730 Series)
Microsoft Device Association Root Enumerator
Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth
Microsoft Radio Device Enumeration Bus
Microsoft RRAS Root Enumerator
Generic SuperSpeed USB Hub (4x)
Generic USB Hub (5x)
USB Composite Device (3x)
USB Mass Storage Device
USB Root Hub (USB 3.0) (4x)
Generic volume shadow copy
EPSON80314B (XP-960 Series)
EPSONBE2B13 (WF-4730 Series)

Blackmagic Design Software

- Davinci Resolve Studio version 17.0B Beta 4 BUILD 13
- Blackmagic RAW 2.0
- Blackmagic Desktop Video 11.7.0.0
- Blackmagic Fusion 16.1.1
- Blackmagic Fusion Render Node 16.1.1

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to update the group on my system. I am now running DR 17 Beta 7, with the December 2020 RAW software update and Desktop Video 12 on my Windows 10 machine. I will be rolling back to the 16.3.0011 beta which is running amazingly well. I am wanting so much to work with 17, but no one replied to the original thread. Hope that someone can help me or suggest why 17 is useless on my system.

Beta 16.3.001 is not giving me any GPU Full errors. But 17 beta 7 is giving me GPU full errors, just like earlier versions of DR 15 and 16.

I have uploaded by DXDiag.txt and Davinci Resolve System information File.nfo in a zip file if anyone is willing to help me get up and running with DR 17j.

Bjarne

UPDATE! SUCCESS

I posted earlier today about my continued Davinci Resolve 17 Beta 7 playback issues. I have had problems in every version of 17 and have been so disappointed.

WELL, good news!!!! ... I just downloaded the latest version of Nvidia Drivers for my two installed Nvidia Quadro P4000 cards - version 461.40-quadro-rtx-desktop-notebook-win10-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe, that was just released yesterday. Playback is now smooth on all of the timelines I have tested, including the BMD 12K video samples at 24P.

Hope this helps others in the forum!

Bjarne