Adobe AE not using OpenGL

Sharif · March 10, 2015

Can somebody help me the option is greyed out for some reason

I googled around and some people did this

If you don't already know, it turns out that if your Nvidia card isn't one of the "certified" cards you can add it to the "raytracer_supported_cards.txt" file to enable GPU features, just like with Premiere Pro.

I'm not sure which cards will work but I tried it with a GTX 460 and it works great and it REALLY speeds up the rendering, previews and interaction with the simple test scene I was experimenting with. Like with Premiere, you'll need a card with at least 1GB of memory.

The text file is located here on Windows 7

C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe After Effects CS6Support Filesraytracer_supported_cards.txt

You just open the text file and add your card to the list in alphanumeric order. If your computer won't let you save and overwrite the file you can just save it to your desktop and drag/drop it into the folder and replace it that way.

Once you've made the change and restarted AE you can confirm it's working by going to preferences>previews>GPU Information>Ray-tracing and it should now be set to "GPU" instead of "CPU" and your card info will be listed as well.

The GPU rendering works in all preview modes and during rendering and man does it make a HUGE difference! How much of a difference will probably vary but in my test scene it took about 17 minutes to render out a simple 5-second long 720p animation with just the CPU. I purged the memory and emptied the disk cache and rendered again with the GPU enabled and it took 33 SECONDS!!!

From https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1020036