OS X 10.6.4 and CUDA Interference

[Luis Otero]

Hello,

I always allow an auto update of my OS X. Well, the last one (10.6.4) creates a severe performance interference with the any card that uses CUDA: The Mercury Engine does not work, so having one of those cards renders a seme level of performance as the non-CUDA cards.

I found that a new GPU firmware is "available", precisely to fix such interference. However, the links located at NVIDIA website reports "No server found" whenever I try to download it (is the same driver for Quadro or GTX cards).

Can someone with enough clout appeal to NVIDIA directly or via Adobe to have this stupid broken link to function, please? The renders are either as long as before, or within the first half hour it stops the transcoding and report en "Error".

Please, help...!!!

[MichaelP]

I never allow auto update of the OS for just this reason. I look at each update when alerted and will ignore if I have not gotten work from my application vendors as to whether it is supported or not. For example, Apple's updating to QuickTime to help Apple TV may not be the best thing for post production workflows.

Michael

[Luis Otero]

Good lesson learned...the bad way, but still a lesson.

[David McGavran]

So I am not an expert but the Cuda guy around here says that it is only a warning and nvidea is updating their drivers asap. But it should all still work.... Nvidea was caught off guard I guess... Sorry..

Cheers

Dave