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Using a Geforce card with Avid Media Composer

Well I just finished building and setting up a new computer yesterday. It was a pretty easy build only a few problems slowed me down. First the cpu was overheating which was causing the system to shut down. Second the gfx card isn't supported by Avid so we had to find a workaround. In case you are reading this and you have the same problem here are the steps that I took to get it working.

First I downgraded the video driver to 180.48

Nvidia Control Panel - Turned off Threaded Optimization and turned on Extension Limit

Using Rivatuner I changed the opengl version to 1.5

Try opening Avid now, if it doesn't work continue below

In Rivatuner reset the driver to default settings

Now change the opengl back to 1.5

Open Avid and it should be working, if not then you could always try softmodding to a Quadro card if you have the right type of geforce card.