https://wccftech.com/after-effects-does-not-support-gtx-10-series-graphics-cards-for-cuda-ray-traced-3d-rendering/

Have you recently upgraded to a new PC and downloaded the latest After Effects version and started getting intermittent errors on any plugin that uses 3D Ray Tracing? Tried to open the settings and found that your brand new GTX 10 Series card wasn’t supported by the program? Or maybe you are like me and use VideoCopilots Element 3D plugin, and found it getting odd 3D and AO related crash errors? Well, look no further, because the root cause of all these issues is that After Effects does not officially support the latest Pascal series of graphics card for anything related to CUDA or 3D Ray Tracing – only OpenCL support is present.

I recently had to go through the same process and you can imagine my frustration when I discovered that while my old GeForce GTX 580 (and old Adobe CC version) worked happily together, my brand new GeForce GTX 1070 was not only failing to be detected by Adobe After Effects, but was causing crashes on anything that had remotely to do with Ray Traced 3D rendering. I have a preference for NVIDIA cards when it comes to workstations because of legacy support for CUDA based tools – which I regularly used, so this was quite an upset for me.