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After Effects - How To Fix Display Acceleration Disabled
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While using After Effects, navigate to File and select Project Settings. Ensure the Video Rendering and Effects option is set to Mercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA). This will allow After Effects to use your graphics card to process video and audio. Ensure your After Effects application is up to date. Close After Effects and open up your Creative Cloud application. Under Updates, click on Update in case an update is available to you. This should only take a few minutes to complete.
Enable GPU Acceleration
While using After Effects, navigate to File and select Project Settings. Ensure the Video Rendering and Effects option is set to Mercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA). This will allow After Effects to use your graphics card to process video and audio.
Update Adobe After Effects
Ensure your After Effects application is up to date. Close After Effects and open up your Creative Cloud application. Under Updates, click on Update in case an update is available to you. This should only take a few minutes to complete.
Update Graphics Card Driver
Ensure your graphics card driver is up to date. NVIDIA graphics cards can utilize the GeForce Experience application. Click here to download the application to your system. When the download is completed, open up the application, and in the Drivers tab, select Download. This will download and install the latest GPU update and should only take a few minutes to complete.
Update Operating System
To optimize your system for performance, you should ensure your operating system is up to date. Search for Update in your taskbar search. In your Check for updates system settings window, download the latest update and restart your PC after that the download is completed. This will in any case, help you with performance issues.
Delete the Windows Temporary Files
Your hard drive might be cluttered with unwanted files. These files will induce lag if not removed properly. You can delete your temporary files manually or use PC cleanup programs, such as CCleaner. These applications are usually the best choice as they automatically keep your hard drive clean. To manually delete your temporary files, enter %temp% in your taskbar search and hit enter. A new folder will open up in which you should delete everything. Sometimes, this can take a few minutes if you haven’t done this before. Some files will most likely stay in your temp folder, as these are still in use by your programs. To completely delete these files, you should also empty your recycle bin.
Reinstall Adobe After Effects
As a last resort, we suggest uninstalling After Effects and reinstalling it, preferably on another drive. In your Creative Cloud application, under All Apps, click on this menu for After Effects and select Uninstall. After a minute or two, you will have the option to reinstall it.
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