

The simple dichotomy is: if you are mostly a gamer and want to keep up with new game releases, use the Game Ready drivers. And indeed, they’re worth reading end-to-end for those with NVIDIA graphics cards and concerns about which way to go. I’m glad you asked! For sure, all the important details are included in the NVIDIA Studio FAQs. Who Cares About Nvidia Game Ready vs Studio Drivers? “Hmmm,” I wondered, “what’s up with that?” I soon found out. At present, it distinguishes between Nvidia Game Ready vs Studio drivers. It appears in the lead-in graphic for this story. I guess none of the reviewers actually tried using Premiere Pro.In visiting the GeForce application to check for Nvidia drivers yesterday, I noticed a new pop-up in the options menu for driver selection. It's supposed to be the fastest 14" laptop out right now and the envy of content creators everywhere. This is not at all what I expected buying the most expensive non-Mac latpop I ever have. Now I've downgraded Premiere to version 13.1.5, and still won't play simple files smoothly. So I installed 451.77, which is what Adobe said would work in the System Compatibility Report - and now the files sound like they did originally with the 451.67 drivers I was using. What I've done so far today: I upgraded the drivers, first to the latest 452.06 - and they would not play AT ALL. Premiere files played just fine on my older computer. I've been using DaVinci Resolve for 2 months without a problem but finally transferred my Adobe license over the new computer.

What does this entail? I have a brand new ASUS Zephyrus G14 with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q GPU and it will not play anything in Premiere. Continuing with an older version of the NVIDIA graphics driver may run in software-only mode and may cause slow playback and other issues that may appear to be a bug. We recommend updating to a newer version for optimal performance and stability. The current version of your NVIDIA graphics driver may not suitably support CUDA 9.2 and may cause issues for Adobe Premiere Pro. I have tried also a few previous Premiere Pro versions.

Can someone from Adobe explain to me why the newest NVIDIA driver for CUDA supported GPU is not new enough for Adobe software (Premiere Pro and After Effects)?!!! I have tried the newest updated driver from NVIDIA website as well as installing drivers through GeForce Experience.
