Mercury playback not utilising GPU (GTX 570) PP 5.5

Hi
I have a problem with premiere pro not utilising my GPU for playback Th eyellow line on the timeline indicates the mercury playback is enabled, but footage is jerky and not smooth. I then monitored my GTX 570 usage and found 0% of the GPU was being utilised. I have a I7 2600k, 16GB RAM, GTX 570 GPU, 7200k hard drives an. d are using premiere pro CS5.5. Is this a problem with my GPU or PPro CS5.5
Cheers
Dave

Hi Jim Simon
I tried what you told me to do, and you were right The accelerated export went around 3.5X faster than the software only. Six minutes of 1280x720 Mp4 footage took about 3.5 minutes to export to H.264 and the non acclerated took about 11 minutes.
I forgot to mention that I was also speeding up the footage through time-remapping, so maybe that was where I was having trouble with the jerky footage. I was under the impression that time remapping was also accelerated, maybe asking too much!
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Bunydoo

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