HOLY COW !!! a hack for CS5!

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Found this forum talking about how to enable Mercury Engine support for NVidia cards other than those designated by Adobe:

http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/adobe-c...e-cs5-work-gtx-295-possibly-all-200-gpus.html

I have a GeForce GTS 360M video card in my ASUS laptop and now can add numerous effects to 1080 GH13 44Mb/s footage and not have the red 'rendering required' bar appear above my footage. can do RGB levels adjustments, gamma adjustment, etc and have it play back as smooth as ever with no rendering. even 1080 60i footage which has pulldown automatically removed thanks to CS 5 (and CS4.2)

All I can say is WOW! If anyone else has a NVidia card and uses CS5 - consider doing this - it is awesome. Why Adobe has only allowed maybe 7 cards to work with this feature is beyond me... now hack your CS5. You need to have a CUDA enabled NVidia card with the latest drivers and at least 768MB of dedicated video ram and of course Premiere CS 5.0... other than that, you should be good to go!

took a few attempts to get the grayed out Mercury Engine Graphics Acceleration option to appear in Premiere, though once I did, I received the same joy I did when I hacked my GH1!
 
Just updated to CS5 version 5.02, and it requires you to go through this process again. If you've previously hacked it, you'll have to re-hack it after you update.
 
I have been using this hack for several months now, it works even with my GT240. You must have a big chunk of ram on the card for it to work. The Nvidia panel will also lead you toward CS4, just check that one and it works in CS5. Keep a backup of the card text file to reuse for updates.
 
Thanks for the info!

Could people using the (CS5) hack please tell me what cards they are using? Need to buy a new computer as I'm upgrading from DVX to gh13, but not sure what to buy?

Eg is240 "good enough" or should I look at something like the 360 or 460?

THANKS

It's definitely THE YEAR OF THE HACK!!!!!!!
 
Futchibon said:
Thanks for the info!

Could people using the (CS5) hack please tell me what cards they are using? Need to buy a new computer as I'm upgrading from DVX to gh13, but not sure what to buy?

Eg is240 "good enough" or should I look at something like the 360 or 460?

THANKS

It's definitely THE YEAR OF THE HACK!!!!!!!
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Hi,

I´ve recently read up on that question, as I´m upgrading myself...

Here´s what I gathered:

If you´re considering budgetwise to buy a 460 I´d recommend to spend a bit more on a 470, as you´ll get quite a use out of more ram and clock speed.
The price difference varies but let´s say it´s 100 dollars or euros then they´ll be well spent.
With the older generation of gpus it´s a bit strange. If you buy a high end card there you´ll spend almost the same as if you bought a 470, so...
 
HELP!
dose anyone hack successful with the 768mb version of GTX 460? when it enable, is there any "Mercury Engine" icons appear on the screen?
 
I've done the hack to enable MPE with my 1GB GTS250. It's my understanding that your GPU needs to be a 1GB card to work with the hack.
 
Not so, my gtx260 works perfect with the mercury engine (everything is realtime, havent ran into any problems) and it has 896mb of memory
 
Geforce GTX 260 working fine here. Need to redo the hack whenever Adobe updates Premiere, but no big deal.

Ragnar
 
I've heard from an out and out expert on this (actually read a long article) in which he says that the 240 will work just as well as any of the more expensive cards - you won't notice any difference. The faster cards may be more future proof though.

I need to update my macbook pro....this sounds fan-f*cking-tastic!
 
Yup. Seeing that yellow render line above your project instead of the usual red line is awesome indeed, even for a hobbyist hack like myself. It's a huge time saver. I can almost do 4 layers of video, all with effects on them, and preview it all in real time with my lowly GTX 260, before it starts to break down a bit. I can't remember when I ever had that many effects and that many layers going at one time but it's nice to know the power's there if I ever get that ambitious. Nice not to have to buy a $500 plus Nvidia card to get this feature. Throw everything you've got at it; it's hard to bog it down.

Ragnar
 
In light of this hack, the lack of any real viable options for Nvidia cards in current MacPros is extremely frustrating.
 
Why frustrating? You can easily swap the video card out on any current Mac Pro with whatever Mac-compatible PCI card you wish. Considering what even the cheapest Mac Pro costs, another $100 or so for a MPE-ready Nvidia card would seem a bargain for the performance gain it brings to CS5. Certainly you can spend a grand on the fastest Nvidia card if you wish, but for $100 or so you can get a GTS240 or 250 (1GB versions) which allow for hardware MPE with the hack linked to earlier in the thread.

Oedipax said:
In light of this hack, the lack of any real viable options for Nvidia cards in current MacPros is extremely frustrating.
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Maybe I'm missing something... can you link to an Nvidia video card that isn't the Quadro 4000/4800 that is currently for sale for use in Mac Pro systems? The GTX285 has all but vanished. Other than that, there's the 8800GT with only 512mb of memory and therefore a no-go for this hack. Beyond that, you pretty much have to be flashing the firmware on PC cards, right?

Would love to be proven wrong on this, BTW...
 
Good catch, I'm so used to the world of Hackintosh where you can use most any Nvidia GPU I forgot Apple Mac Pros are officially limited to just a handful of Mac-ready video cards.

Unofficially, I do know that some in the Hackntosh coding community have figured out various ways to use certain non-Mac Nvidia GPUs in real Mac Pros. I haven't tried this myself, but Netkas is one of the big brains in the Hackintosh community and has a good track record of knowing what he's doing.

But yes, I feel your pain. I'm a Mac guy through and through and our home is filled with Apple products as well as a few non-Apple running OSX, but I do think it's ridiculous that Apple still limits the Mac Pro to just a handful of GPUs (just as ridiculous as Adobe officially only enabling MPE with a handful of Nvidia cards when it's child's play to add a few lines of text to a .txt file and unlock MPE for a $100 GTS 250). I know it's part of Apple's closed loop approach to protecting its users from themselves and I'm sure it's saved a lot of Mac Pro from burning up because some cheap Sparkle video card's fan died, but really, it shouldn't be this hard or this expensive to get hardware MPE happening on a current Mac Pro.

So in answer to your question, no, I can't link to an MPE-ready Nvidia care that isn't the Quadro 4000/4800 that is currently for sale for use in Mac Pros. Barring hackery a la Netkas, the cheapest card that fits the bill is the Mac version of the GTX 285, but as you said this card is not easy to hunt down anymore. Might be worth keeping an eye out on eBay and craigslist.

Oedipax said:
Maybe I'm missing something... can you link to an Nvidia video card that isn't the Quadro 4000/4800 that is currently for sale for use in Mac Pro systems? The GTX285 has all but vanished. Other than that, there's the 8800GT with only 512mb of memory and therefore a no-go for this hack. Beyond that, you pretty much have to be flashing the firmware on PC cards, right?

Would love to be proven wrong on this, BTW...
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