AfterFX won't recognise GPU

[Racinglife12]

Hi

I've been looking into a problem but I just cant find the solution for it.
I have AfterFX CC 2015 but it won't recognise my GPU so I'm stuck at slow CPU rendering.
I have an i5 3470 16GB RAM and a Sapphire Radeon R9 390. When I go to the preview window and click the info tab I can't select GPU, its grayed out.
Hope anyone can help me with this.

I have the latest drivers installed.

Thanks

 

[k1114]

After Effects does not have gpu accelerated rendering. It does have it for 3d ray tracing but that is cuda only. It should still show your gpu for opengl which is for the footage panel.

 

[Racinglife12]

After Effects does not have gpu accelerated rendering. It does have it for 3d ray tracing but that is cuda only. It should still show your gpu for opengl which is for the footage panel.

So there is no real way to speed it up for me? Because I need to render a 2min 50sec video and it takes 3hrs and 30 mins. So yeah not too happy about it

 

[k1114]

Nope and that's the big reason more people use premiere; after effects is just a cpu renderer. But that seems a lot longer than it should be.

 

[Racinglife12]

Nope and that's the big reason more people use premiere; after effects is just a cpu renderer. But that seems a lot longer than it should be.

Well I've found out that I can save the project to work with Premiere. But when i try to open it it says: this project was saved in a newer version of Premiere Pro and cannot be opened in this version. I cant seem to update it so thats kinda annoying so is there a way to make it save in an older version or something like that?? I'm really new to this sofware if you haven't noticed already

 

[k1114]

Have you tried to look for better render settings for ae?

 

[Racinglife12]

Have you tried to look for better render settings for ae?

Yeah I've done that and now its at 3hrs 24mins -_-
I really don't know what to do. I've read somewhere that you can export the AfterFX in an older .xml project but there was no description for how to do that. Ugh this is slightly frustrating 🙁

 

[k1114]

I've never done it, I'd be googling like you are. I just stick with one software til the project is done.

 

[Racinglife12]

I've never done it, I'd be googling like you are. I just stick with one software til the project is done.

Well I don't know if this might help with the rendering issue but im using the following effetcs:
Twitch by VideoCoPilot
Audio Spectrum x2
Mirror x2
Polar Coordinates x2
Trapcode Sound Keys
Trapcode Particular x2

The weird thing is is that I started a new project which was 4min 3 long and in the beginning the rendering is quite fast (about 3 frames per second rendered) but after a while it slows down to a crawl. Like 1 frame needs 30 seconds for it to be rendered.