DaVinci Resolve: “Unsupported GPU Processing Mode” (4 Solutions)

One of the most common GPU errors in DaVinci Resolve is the "Unsupported GPU Processing Mode." In this video, I'll show you what's causing it and how to fix it.
Here's a link to the article:
videowithjens.com/davinci-res...
Download drivers:
www.amd.com/en/support
www.intel.com/content/www/us/...
www.nvidia.com/download/index...
Open CL and CUDA support:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA#GP...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL#...
Download an older version of DaVinci Resolve:
www.blackmagicdesign.com/supp...
Contents of this video:
00:00 Intro
00:43 1. Meet Minimum Requirements
02:41 2. Support OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
05:19 3. Download DaVinci Resolve 16.2.6
07:13 4. Change GPU Preferences
07:52 5. Update Driver(s)
08:54 Bonus Tips

[@videowithjens]

Here's the article: videowithjens.com/davinci-resolve-fix-unsupported-gpu-processing-mode/

[@God-T]

My display memory is 128 MB can I still use DaVinci on my PC also, what if i install an older version like 16 or 17 DaVinci.. :(

[@jothikasiv]

Thanks for making this video! And the article was very helpful as well🙏😍

[@videowithjens]

Awesome, I'm glad to hear!

[@grishanyc]

Thank you so much, Jens. My fresh re-install of Windows 10 had a vram of 0 for some reason. I only needed about 2 minutes of the video to reinstall the driver properly and for DaVinci to run properly. You are great!

[@videowithjens]

Fantastic! Glad it was useful

[@thienxuanpham2215]

Thanks, bro. I did it by updating the driver on my Windows 10. Your instruction is really easy to understand, I really appreciate that 😄👍🌹

[@videowithjens]

Glad it worked!

[@john2510]

Thanks. I'd tried various "fixes" without success. I have a Radeon RX580. I went to Device Manager and updated the driver there and it fixed it. FYI - I originally got screwed up by an AVG Driver Update. It created an "Open CL.dll was not found" error on boot. I tried removing and reinstalling Resolve. That generated the "Unsuported GPU Processing Mode" error. Downloading and installing an older driver from the Radeon site didn't fix the problem either. I'm not sure if the problem was with the new driver or the updating software... or my lack of sophistication with the various software issues.

[@videowithjens]

Hmm yeah, sounds like a driver problem. Glad the video helped

[@EminentEditing]

Thank you John, you comment helped me ❤

[@RayLilySeries]

When changing the GPU processing mode from AUTO to CUDA, I don't have anything available to select. I can only untick auto, nothing in the drop down menu.

[@WillieWayne]

i’m also having that same issue

[@RayLilySeries]

@@WillieWayne I deleted and re-installed Davinci and it fixed it :)

[@samusschuler7866]

Thank you so much! You've made this hugely scary problem much easier to tackle. I still can't move forward because my drivers (which I double checked with your video) are "unknown not supported" (???) and won't let me click on them, but! It's really nice to be able to troubleshoot and get other possibilities out of the way :)

[@videowithjens]

I'm glad it was helpful! Hope you are able to solve it somehow :)

[@tesavegter5144]

Thank you. You are the onlyone who helped me understand the problem.

[@videowithjens]

Fantastic, glad I could help!

[@EdwardMartens-ncc1701E]

Thank you very much, downloading the older one helped and I´m now up and running

[@videowithjens]

Im glad to hear!

[@baiyeshaddy4381]

Thank you very much for this video it has helped me understand a lot. But I have a question: if I download a different GPU which is compatible with my hardware will my VRAM increase?

[@kennedyoke]

Great tips, Jen. Can you be kind enough to make another one for MacBook users? I’m having this problem on my Mac

[@captainuniverse6417]

super explaination bro ,it useful for me

[@robtmohr]

Where do you find that a GeForce GTX 1650 will support CUDA 11? According to what I found it will support up to CUDA 7.5.

[@videowithjens]

That's the compute compability. Above 3.5 supports Cuda 11

[@ceskapaka-armwrestling3320]

if you have AMD like me (7900 XT), solution for me was uninstalling AMD adrenaline and let windows to install gpu drivers by itself... I tried multiple driver versions, it didnt help. Your solution didnt help either. Then i reinstall windows and it worked, because there was no adrenaline software, just driver. After i installed amd adrenaline, davinci stopped working (resolve studio 18). So i uninstalled the adrenaline and davinci works perfectly fine. My specs: ( i7 9700k, AMD 7900 XT, windows 11 64-bit, amd gpu driver from 25.7.2023)..............So maybe there is some tweak in andrenaline, which cause the problem...but i didnt bother.

[@fpv_stmk]

Thanks. Works perfect

[@videowithjens]

Awesome, what was your solution?

[@im_andrei1010]

1 have 128 mb of vrab but way earlier it worked but now it doesnt?

[@gerardovaldez295]

i have a question, when installing the older version, i can install an older version untill i meet the requirements or it has to be 16.2.6?

[@videowithjens]

You can install an older version as you meet the requirements. The version 16.2.6 is because of CUDA 10

[@mucman9459]

I get the error message every single time I open davinci even after I fix it what do I do?

[@castaway312]

my gpu is enabled in device manager but when I use dxdiag it doesn't show on display and I don't have a render tab

[@videowithjens]

Hmm, can you see it in the task manager under performance?

[@joooosl]

for me, windows automatically installed some bad driver that isn't synced with the adrenaline version for my amd gpu, and i had to reinstall the drivers. this keeps happening

[@videowithjens]

Check out if solution 2 in this article is helpful: videowithjens.com/davinci-resolve-fix-unsupported-gpu-processing-mode/

[@joooosl]

@@videowithjens no i wanted to help others, i fixed the issue with reinstalling the driver

[@SgtMajor82]

I had to downgrade my AMD Drivers as the new ones wouldn't allow DR to start. Went to the AMD folder on my PC where it keeps the previous versions and then chose an earlier one, and then installed that. Fixed it!

[@videowithjens]

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

[@xd-qo1nu]

I upgraded had to downgrade and now it doesnt work lol..

[@simone23101970]

Very Very good. Tks

[@Veg-Power]

my vega 7 iGPU doesn't even show up in the davinci resolve settings (using Linux). Allocated 2 GB VRAM to it.

[@lofiadore]

could you solve ?

[@DetHjemme]

The area is gray and the DR didnt found the AMD gpu at all.

[@fouadelqutamy]

Good job .. thank you very much.

[@videowithjens]

Happy to help!

[@jastahn3702]

I tried all of the solutions but nevertheless it doesn't work. I have a Radeon RX 6600. That should be enough. But I cant choose it for whatever reason. I tried every step from this video but i cant fix the problem. Please help me

[@einfachwlad]

i only have one dislpay option then sound and input. nothing else. can some one help me?

[@einfachwlad]

i have 24gb ram

[@Health_Potion_Wizard]

I was stuck using version 16 because I forgot to update my amd drivers. Thank you for the advice

[@videowithjens]

Wow, thanks! Didn't know it was possible to give tips 👍 I'm glad you found a working solution to your problem.

[@user-vd1sw4vg2i]

thank you bro

[@Organizing-TV]

Hahaha loved the intro

[@videowithjens]

Haha thanks, I felt that described the feeling of an error quite well 😂

[@Organizing-TV]

@@videowithjens hahaha for sure

[@poetasepatetas9891]

..tks bro congratulations for you always ! ;) ....

[@videowithjens]

Glad to help! 🎉

[@Xotic_johnny]

I have a Radeon 540 grpahcis card. The vram didn't pop up for me but I am sure that I meet all the requirements. Under "Memory and GPU Confirguration" there is no CUDA or OpenCL option. Next to my 540 graphics card it also says "Discrete...Main Display GPU, Unkown not supported." Nevermind I ended up fixing it by updating the driver lol, thank God.

[@MementoMoriVeritas]

For me, it was my video driver. The one supplied via Windows Update didn't work. Reinstalling the AMD driver and disabling Windows from updating the driver resolved my issue.

[@videowithjens]

Glad you solved the issue! Thanks for sharing

[@MementoMoriVeritas]

@@videowithjens Thanks for all your videos! They've been a huge help.

[@videowithjens]

@@MementoMoriVeritas Fantastic! I'm happy to hear 🙏

[@natanielzawlik]

Nothing worked for me. DaVinci doesn't even recognize I have a GPU, I don't know why.

[@dannyg8741]

Awsome thank you!

[@videowithjens]

Happy to help!

[@HoPo-hm5np]

Thank bro

[@baalu_creatives]

Bro my laptop is not supporting davinchi resolve software what will do Bro please tell me.

[@videowithjens]

Does it not meet the system requirements?

[@baalu_creatives]

@@videowithjens so bro what i will do now

[@videowithjens]

​@@baalu_creatives If you don't meet the minimum requirements, upgrading your hardware will likely be your solution to run Resolve :)

[@NoobWarsGames]

@@videowithjens Hi, My Davinci Resolve worked last time I launched it, now it wont despite it being compatible with CUDA, any advice?

[@videowithjens]

@@NoobWarsGames Hmm, did you try everything mentioned in the video? Updating the driver, changing to studio version etc? They recently released version 18.1 so that could be something

[@WorldArchivist]

My own GPU isn't even on the list, so I'm back to square one.

[@ScarsUnseen24]

Hey, here's what fixed it for me... I have an Acer Predator PH517-61 laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56. For some reason, there seem to be two valid digitally assigned drivers that are both compatible (plus the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter

[@harrisondarkly]

i have tried everything even have 2 gpus and nothing works not even any of these suggestions

[@videowithjens]

Woot, hope you figure it out!

[@harrisondarkly]

@@videowithjens never did just moved on to using blender instead

[@Padub_]

Here is solution for Intel UHD(Like so others can find it) I had this problem with Intel UHD 620 on Manjaro Linux. I fixed it by installing OpenCL Drivers. Here is a command for Arch Linux : sudo pacman -Suy intel-compute-runtime

[@videowithjens]

Thanks for sharing!

[@gabrielphilips6980]

I tried this and it worked for me. I use LMDE5 and downloades opencl drivers for ubuntu22, then it worked

[@atiles123]

i just downgrade now the asking for activation key

[@videowithjens]

I guess you are using the paid studio version then? Think you get it on your email when you purchased

[@atiles123]

I’m looking for the free version

[@videowithjens]

@@atiles123 ahh, then you have probably downloaded the wrong version. Just look for the one that's not called studio

[@DigitalPaintingRecords]

I never had this fkn problem it had to be NVIDIA drivers

[@alealana197]

I have 512 MB of VRAM, no wonder why it wasn't working lol

[@Toilettowerdefenceking]

I have Intel i3

[@Rolliapocx]

7:13 (If 16.2.6 is downloaded)

[@videowithjens]

Glad it was helpful

[@thomasslone1964]

im on a win10 steam deck so...

[@spaceblade]

I have 32mb vram😭

[@user-by8um4yi9w]

Me too 😂😂😂 , and i thought that it would meet the minor requirements , pretty close i guess

[@spaceblade]

@@user-by8um4yi9w aha I'm gonna save up for a good graphics card so I can edit my vids

[@user-by8um4yi9w]

@@spaceblade yeah , me too , it sucks that i cant start usjng davinci whenever i want to , i can only start when i find the money for the graphics card

[@spaceblade]

@@user-by8um4yi9w Mhm, my PC is good I just got it but it doesn't have a GPU so I use my cpu instead for small games like mine craft then I just need a GPU for editing and playing better games, apart from that it's pretty good I have 16gigs of ram making it super fast at loading pages and my cpu which I mostly use for game development

[@kentoowin]

Thanks. My intel driver said go to HP.

[@videowithjens]

Hmm, did you sort it out?

[@kentoowin]

@@videowithjens No, even changing to earlier version ( GREAT IDEA) and still crashes..

[@videowithjens]

@@kentoowin What's your system specs?

[@FunnySkeleton10]

Never heard someone take more time to explain literally everything

[@videowithjens]

You can speed up the video 😆

[@FunnySkeleton10]

@@videowithjens Yea but i don't think i could even comprehend what is happening

[@videowithjens]

Ahh yeah, it's a bit complicated. Check out the article in the description

[@ThatRandomMC]

I want to drink that pepsi

[@videowithjens]

Me too 😤

[@ElloKyoko2]

boah i got 64MB of vram 🤦🏾‍♂️ its okay im buyin a new laptop asap

[@GenericVyonder69420]

give linux tutrol

[@AndriyYakovlevleo]

All what you need to do is just, turn on your GPU driver

[@videowithjens]

Thanks for sharing! Did you do it differently from shown in the video?

[@AndriyYakovlevleo]

@@videowithjens yesterday davinci worked well, today it shows that davinci didn't see my GPU, so logically I go to my driver's and simply turn it on)

[@axoaxterix9804]

How to do it? Please tell me

[@videowithjens]

@@axoaxterix9804 Go to the Device manager, right-click your graphics card and select "Enable device".

[@sifaw743]

how ?

[@TiempoFilmico]

Why does he speak like its slowed down.

[@videowithjens]

It's actually me trying to talk fast in English :O But hey, you can speed up the vid

[@hussreal]

@@videowithjens your English is perfect bro and your accent too, you sound nice and you're very clear, especially with all the tutorials you make, thank you btw for this tutorial, helped out a lot, keep going brother 💪💪❤

[@videowithjens]

@@hussreal Thank you, bro. I appreciate it ❤️

[@quietsylvie]

Instructions unclear, I accidentally uninstalled some amd shit and my laptop had to be resetted☝️🤓

[@trexmtb4381]

This video is totally useless for me, I have more than enough of everything, I would say excessive for many people and that message started to appear, I have been using it a lot with 16GB of vram, 32GB of RAM, 16 core CPU and this stupid message appears, The program always comes with problems and I was thinking about buying the studio version, I was downloading the driver from before, nothing, reinstalling Davinci again, nothing, Is there a command so it can see the gpu that is crystal clear that it is installed? honestly this is ridiculous in a company like this.

[@victordeoliveira1679]

so how do you fix it??? I see why KZbin removed the Dislike button!!!

[@videowithjens]

I get your frustration... I'm sorry the video didn't help you :)

[@Kingfalconeye]

u cant just tell us to BUY a new gpu

[@videowithjens]

Don't buy a new gpu then

[@Kingfalconeye]

@@videowithjens well i want to edit?