After Effects - How to Enable GPU Acceleration

For more information, check out this guide:

A short tutorial on how to enable GPU acceleration in After Effects.
Leave a comment if you have any questions.

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[ksh]

This is what saved me from this problem -


File -> Project settings -> Video rendering and effects
Use - Mercury GPU Acceleration (CUDA)

This will make aftereffects use the dedicated GPU like nvidia instead of internal GPU. Thus will not slow down or get stuck during playback

[dannycub]

The option to enable GPU acceleration on the latest version of CC programs is under the "General / Video Rendering and Effects" tab in Project settings. (File > Project settings)

[ZelardYT]

It won't let me tick the square, and everything is up to date.

[Moon-kxpd]

for the gpu info thing i couldn't find the ray tracing part and the other bottom

[Jmdxck]

I don’t get those choices for the gpu setting

[oganarchy]

How to have the permission to open this text file and save it? Click-right the text file, click "properties", go to "Security", click "Edit", click "USERS", allow "Full Control", Apply it then click "Okay. Now you can save it after add your card name in this file. ;)

[Rjjj]

It's showing me that you do not have permission to open this file see the owner of the file or the administrator

[adonisserghini]

It worked perfectly for me.
Thanks a lot!

[kc._.]

How do u find out what is ur GPU number thingy?

[DrazV]

I've done this but if I scrub through the timeline it gets laggy and I can see my CPU usage spike to 100%. GPU usage hovers around at a solid 5%.

[qfhsqbl]

What about AMD RX 6800. And in support folder, there is no raytracer_supported_cards.txt

[DragonMagicVape]

This method doesn't worth with my RX580 and Adobe After effects CC 2019 :(

[scienceboss]

thanks you are a life saver...love you for this

[saghana]

i have cc 20 and the gpu drop box isn’t there in fact there’s nothing to click when i select ‘gpu information’?

[B_Adam]

Not worked to me, pls help to me.. I have TRX 2070 Super

[sankitty]

Does anybody know why I click on the GPU Information I don't get what he's getting?? It just shows me that Fast Draft is Available with Texture Memory, etc

[karentingshini]

cant change cz it say need permission to change

[mocanbro]

I have All in 1 PC, the GPU option is disabled cpu is enabled what should i do?

[thnotehifireviews]

Not possible to save changes even when changing permissions ?

[maciejkpczk]

Thanks for this, I need to change graphic card but i finally know why Ps lag