Laptop recommendations

[Battle Vaughan]

Save you the trouble, here are the hacked files (cuda for PPro, raytrace for After Effects) These are for the 670M. Just rename your existing files to .old or something so you don't lose them, and copy these to the proper destinations. You may have to do it again if Adobe sends updates.

In Premiere (PC version) it is found in the first folder, program files > adobe premiere pro cs6. In After Effects, it's in the program files>adobe after effects cs6 > support files folder.

[Art White]

The hack didn't work for my ge 330m although it was listed. It has enough mb. It shows it as recognized but the Mercury playback won't highlight. I tried it twice but I'm working on a project so I'll try again later.

[Harm Millaard]

Try if ONLY renaming the file to .OLD or similar and then restarting PR will suffice to enable hardware MPE.

[Battle Vaughan]

Art, look back at the link the the David Knarr tutorial, and check how to use GPUSniffer.exe to get the exact naming convention for your card. It must be exactly the same in the line you add to the .txt file.

[Art White]

Ok,
I haven't used the sniffer but I tried both the manual and automatic installation. I believe I type the name exactly but with these old eyeballs...

[Battle Vaughan]

Art, in start>search all programs, type cmd to open the command function
A la the good old DOS days, navigate to the program files > adobe >adobe premiere pro cs6 folder.
type gpusniffer.exe (cd c:\ etc etc)

look to see what name it gives your card. Copy and paste.....

[Peter Rush]

Well I'm about to buy this Laptop guys - I think it should do the job if I can get the graphics card hacked

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3630QM (2.40GHz) 6MB

Memory (RAM)
16GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (4 x 4GB)

Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670M - 1.5GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11

Memory - Hard Disk
250GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD2500BEKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)

2nd Hard Disk
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
4x BLURAY ROM, 8x DVD ±R/±RW & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE

Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)

Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING

Sound Card
Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack

Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® N135 802.11N (150Mbps) + BLUETOOTH

USB Options
3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD

Firewire
1 X 1394a FIREWIRE PORT

Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)

[Battle Vaughan]

Sounds like a winner!

Really, the "hack" is no big deal, it's just a text file. See earlier post, I did the hack for you, just follow the info and you should be fine. Check your project settings in PPro for Project Settings > General> Video Rendering and select "Mercury Engine GPU acceleration" .

In After Effects, it's Preferences > previews. Check that your video card is listed there and select GPU for the ray-tracing option.

In Photoshop, it's Edit >preferences>performance. Check that the card is listed, check "use graphics processor" and in the advanced settings window, check the same again.

Best wishes!

[Peter Rush]

Cheers - you've been a real help Battle!