Mercury Playback Engine stop working in Premiere CC 2014

Hello All,
After upgrading to the latest CC 2014 I've been experiencing issues with real time editing when working in Premiere.   I've checked to make sure that CUDA is selected and it is, but I'm not getting the performance from the CUDA.  I've changed the settings to "Software" and I get the same results when changing between the two.  I also noticed that the CUDA is now available in "Media Encoder CC 2014" but I'm not sure if it's really using it or not, just like Premiere I can see the CUDA is available..  I also upgraded to the latest NVIDIA driver which I'm not ruling that out either.  Please help.
Mac Pro      Mid 2010
Processor  2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory      48 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics    ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB
                    NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
Hard Drive  2 x 500GB Seagate in a software Raid 0 for OSX
                    2 x 1TB WD VelociRaptor in a software Raid 0 for data

Hello John,
Thanks for the reply.  Yes, I am 100% Premiere  Pro is/was using CUDA.  One indication is the yellow that shows up in the timeline.  When in "Software" mode every change is red until I render it.  With the CUDA edit changes show nothing until I make a change, it turns yellow. 
In getting more screenshots to show I found my problem.  I feel like a complete noob.  The problem was/is, I added a 16bit effect (circle) to an adjustment layer which is not rendered in real time and when I made a change I forgot. duh
32bit effects
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