Mountain Lion and PPro CS6

The Mountain Lion (Mac OS v10.8) upgrade improves performance and stability with Premiere Pro CS6. We are recommending the upgrade for Premiere Pro CS6.

Be sure to check for drivers for third-party I/O hardware and such, since driver availability lags the OS release.

Mac OS X Mountain Lion (v10.8) compatibility FAQ list for all Creative Suite applications: http://adobe.ly/QjoLoM

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Hi all,

I have the GTX570 also and upgraded to ML last night. All seems ok apart from GPU support in AECS6 is now broken so no raytracing. And yes I checked the supported cards.txt and its still listed...

Was working fine in Lion...

Weird one. So are there new Nvidia drivers? Or do I need to reinstall CS6?

Thanks Jeff!

I shall try that and then try this new CUDA driver if thats not sorted it

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda-mac-driver.html

M

FWIW I followed the link that Mike shared (thanks for that!) and Premiere is up and running, with CUDA acceleration, on Mountain Lion. Of course, this also includes the AJA update as well.

Also noteworthy is that Mountain Lion, in general, feels really fast.

Has anyone been able to boot with the GTX-285 and Mountain Lion? After five install attempts, I've been unable to get an installation running with it: when booting, it freezes on a gray screen (with the cursor still visible & mobile) after the Apple & spinner disappear. Since this point is normally when the graphics driver kicks in, and since I can safe boot into the system, I suspected the new NVidia driver; however, I was only able to find a couple other reports of this on the net, and none specifically mentioned a GTX-285 card.

Installing the newest CUDA driver (5.0.17) didn't seem to help.

As a test, I just replaced the Nvidia kexts with those from ML DP3, and the system booted. However, when running PP CS6, the MPE (unsurprisingly) reverted to software-only, so even without pre-release drivers that's a non-starter. It does, however, seem to confirm it's an Nvidia driver issue.

It appears that the barefeats website at least was able to use a GTX-285 in their ML graphic tests (which are interesting in and of themselves):
http://www.barefeats.com/mtlion.html

I've also seen other anecdotal reports (ironically, mostly Hackintoshes) of this card working, so I can't fathom why my system would be having a problem with the card. Premiere ran like butter using it under Lion. The Mac itself is an 8-core 2.26 GHz 4,1 Mac Pro with 24GB of RAM.

EDIT: I found very similar reports on Apple's discussions, for pre-ML systems:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4083769?tstart=90

I believe I still have the Nvidia GT 120 the Nehalem shipped with somewhere; I'll try that.

I also have the same problem. No Hardware accelerated Mercury Engine.

I use GeForce GTX 285 with the newest cuda drivers (5.0.17).

When I run the GPUSniffer app (which can be found in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.app>Contents>GPUSniffer.app>Contents>MacOS>GPUSniffer), I get the following output:

--- GPU Computation Info ---
Found 1 devices supporting GPU computation.
OpenCL Device 0 -
Name: GeForce GTX 285
Capability: 1.2
Driver: 1
Total Video Memory: 1024MB
Not chosen because it did not match the named list of cards

So I checked this "named list of cards" (which can be found in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.app>Contents>cuda_supported_cards.txt):

GeForce GTX 285
Quadro CX
Quadro FX 4800
Quadro 4000

I really can't see why it wont't work...

As a follow-up to my issues with the GTX-285 and Mountain Lion, I finally managed to resolve them (I hope). I purchased a Gefen DVI Detective and placed it between the card and my monitor (an NEC 2490WUXi). After installing CUDA 5.0.17, the next launch of Premiere had the hardware MPE enabled. The machine has successfully restarted now six times in a row (though I won't be fully convinced of the fix until I get over a dozen). Hopefully this helps someone else who stumbles on this issue in the future.

Sorry, no special insight; it was just a lucky guess. I'd found some mentions of the DVI Detective in some older related posts (on Apple's Discussion pages, I believe) and decided to give it a try. I don't know if the GTX-285 has issues with the MPE, as I've seen others mentioning using it successfully with Mountain Lion. Furthermore, I had the same (non-Premiere-speciific) issues with the Nvidia GT-120. That's why I suspected a combo of an Nvidia card, my NEC monitor, and 10.8's new Nvidia drivers.