After Effects — How To Fix Display Acceleration Disabled
If you’re a creative professional working with Adobe After Effects, you know how frustrating it can be to encounter errors hindering your workflow. One common issue that many users face is «Display Acceleration Disabled.» This error occurs when After Effects fails to utilize your graphics card’s hardware acceleration, resulting in slower render times and decreased performance. But don’t worry; there are several ways to fix this problem and get back to creating stunning visual effects.
To start, we’ll dive into the basics of the error and why it occurs. Then, we’ll explore different methods for fixing the problem, including updating drivers, adjusting settings, and troubleshooting hardware issues. By the end of this article, you’ll clearly understand how to fix «Display Acceleration Disabled» in After Effects and improve your performance.
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.
After Effects > File > Project Settings
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.
Creative Cloud > After Effects > Update
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.
GeForce Experience > Drivers > Download
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.
Windows Settings > Windows Update
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.
Delete the content of your temporary files folder
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.
Display Acceleration disabled
I'll help you here as I was just browsing through. I've had this in premiere pro as well and media encoder.
Essentially, this goes for all GPU accelerated Adobe apps since Adobe can't seem to care enough to create a option for this in settings.
By default, the Adobe apps will use the Intel GPU. It sounds odd but it's true. I would use Windows Device Manager and disable the integrated graphics, then reboot. Now it only has one option to default to for rendering and GPU tasks, the dedicated GPU. In Media Encoder, it would show up as a CUDA device and would not show the openCL option (integrated GPUs most of the time are the openCL option).
You always need to check preferences in Adobe apps that use the GPU to confirm this.
Also, as a extra hint: under Preferences > Media, there is usually a checkbox for "Use hardware accelerated H.264 decoding" or something like that. Feel free to uncheck this if you get rendering errors. Adobe software has had these issues for years, but I haven't tried CC 2019 yet to see what is resolved.
[Fix] Adobe After effects display acceleration disabled
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is it possible to do it in MAC ? thanks
I really don’t use MAC,,
But if you find in your adobe AE folder a txt file that called “raytracer_supported_cards.txt”
you have to type the name of your VGA Card in it and save. it will fix your problem
Thanks,
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I NEED TO DO?
After you download your “[Fix].Adobe.After.effects.display.acceleration.disabled.V02” you will have to extract this
run this file as administrator “[Fix] Adobe After effects display acceleration disabled.bat”
then type the number that reflects you AE version and press enter
it will do the tricks ��
Its Still not working i dont know why its not working
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Description of Problem: Graphics card works 100% after restart. However, after a little work in After Effects, the program stops responding. I have a feeling the graphics card is «failing» and causing the issue. After I close After Effects, I am no longer able to get certain features from Graphics Card. For example, all my GeForce Experience features stop working say I do not have a compatible graphics card. Also, in the Nvidia Control Panel, nothing is rendered in the preview window. Also, when I reopen After Effects, my Display Acceleration is disabled — it shouldn’t be. All of these problems are temporarily fixed after a reboot, but reoccur when I continue my work in After Effects and it crashes again. I believe this is a graphics card issue and not an After Effects issue because GeForce Experience is not recognizing it and the temporary reboot remedy. I’m not sure if this is normal for my setup, this is how it looks after the fail.
Troubleshooting: I updated my BIOS & Windows and the issue persists. I have the latest GPU drivers. I disabled fast boot in the BIOS. After a reboot, my GeForce Experience allows me to use Gamestream and all the features and recognizes my graphics card. After a reboot, After Effects Display Acceleration is enabled. Graphics card eventually fails and all the problems happen again.
REMEDY: download DDU and install it. Reboot into safe mode. Open DDU & do a clean wipe & restart. Download your driver from the manufacturer website and install it. For nivida gtx 1060 like me, I downloaded a little earlier of a driver, then hit advanced custom installation and did a clean installation. This has appeared to fix the problems.