Mercury GPU acceleration worse then software acceleration :(

I have to date the latest Premiere, and the latest Nvidia drivers..
Two GTX 580 cards and a Intel i7 4930k.
The timeline I'm having uses loads of warp stabelizers, AVCHD footage and heavy speedgrade looks with masks and five primarys.
The gtx cards works sweall with Neat video nois, to make that clear (13,5fps on 32bit full 1080p)
With lumetri engine, it drops frames, it only plays perfectly when I turn of Cuda...! (on heavy looks)
And I get export errors on the warp stagelizer in export unless I turn of Cuda?!
Is it a bad Nvidia driver? Should I use a legacy one?
Thanx grabs and gals!

From other comments around here ... the "Lumetri Looks engine" and warp-stabilizer do participate in far more than their fair share of playback problems, masks can load the graphics processors too ... oft only "solved" by turning off Cuda or OpenCL with whatever card is there. There've been some folks with mighty expensive aproved Quadro cards .. who get better render times software only. They wasn't too pleased, of course ... and noting you've got two cards ... wishing you all the best ... but everyone's mileage varies these days. Sometimes good, sometimes ... not so.

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