AMD Catalyst 13.1 Breaks OpenCL

xerox wrote on 3/22/2013, 7:12 PM

Magix Movie Edit Pro 2013 on an AMD A8-5500 APU and Radeon HD 7560D graphics and Windows 8 Pro.

Upgraded my AMD drivers to Catalyst 13.1 from 12.10, and regretably exporting MPEG-4 AVC using hardware encoding stopped working with "Unknown reason for not initializing the GPU Encoder."

Uninstalling AMD Catalyst 13.1 followed by running Driver Fusion in safe mode and then installation of AMD Catalyst 12.10 in regular mode returns the functionality.

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Scenestealer wrote on 3/23/2013, 1:16 AM

Hi Xerox

Longtime no hear!

See this topic in a similar train: - http://www.magix.info/us/which-nvidia-graphics-driver-should-we-be-using.forum.923943.html

It seems that it may be better to use the drivers that were around when MEP2013 came out.....

Peter

johnebaker wrote on 3/23/2013, 5:23 AM

Hi Xerox

Welcome back.

Have you tried rolling the drivers back in Device Manager?

John

xerox wrote on 3/24/2013, 4:31 AM

Thanks, John and Peter.

I've tried every which way to uninstall the old driver and then install the new one. I've found only one way that works, and that's the way I described. It's really not the display driver, but the SDK and Accelerated Transcoding drivers for OpenCL. Other editors are okay with the new drivers, but MEP had this one problem. When Catalyst 12.10 is installed, it's a thing of beauty watching the progress bar race across the screen when exporting to AVC.

AMD has a "clean-up utility" that will destroy the Windows 8 operating system, as I have experienced myself. I couldn't even do a system restore or start my computer in safe mode.

Rob

johnebaker wrote on 3/24/2013, 1:30 PM

Hi Xerox

. . . . AMD has a "clean-up utility" that will destroy the Windows 8 operating system, . . .

They have probably removed all the ATI drivers including the ones which come with Windows 8.

Have you tried repairing the Windows installation?

John

Scenestealer wrote on 3/24/2013, 4:44 PM

Hi Rob

Thankfully the "Clean install" option in the Nvidia driver package, does not cause a problem in Vista.

Peter

johnebaker wrote on 3/24/2013, 4:48 PM

. . . . Thankfully the "Clean install" option in the Nvidia driver package, does not cause a problem in Vista. . . .

Also in Windows 7

However running dual displays on a NVidia is not as good as an ATI which I would have preferred however I could never get OpenCL to work

John

Scenestealer wrote on 3/24/2013, 5:58 PM

Hi John

I assume you are familiar with this from Magix support: - https://support2.magix.com/customer/en/hwencoding2

As I said in my link to my previous topic about drivers - Maybe the drivers and cards (AMD included), Magix tested when they enabled GPU rendering, are the ony ones we can rely on...?

Peter

xerox wrote on 3/24/2013, 8:44 PM

As I said in my link to my previous topic about drivers - Maybe the drivers and cards (AMD included), Magix tested when they enabled GPU rendering, are the ony ones we can rely on...?

Peter

If a manufacturer comes out with an updated driver after Magix has finished testing MEP, then Magix will not be able to make updates to their software. The user then has to revert back to the earlier driver that worked. That's what I have done. I've already tested the AMD Catatlyst 13.2 beta, but OpenCL doesn't work in MEP with that version either.

John, did you go try earlier versions of the driver?

johnebaker wrote on 3/25/2013, 2:35 AM

Hi Peter, Xerox

@Peter - thank you I was aware of that page

@Xerox - I had rolled back the drivers to version 12.10

However - my problem turned out to be 2 faulty ATI chipset graphics cards which were returned - I was somewhat aggrieved and switched to NVidia then found out the ATI's were faulty.

John