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  • Sony vegas error while launching

    Posted by Lauri Johnson on June 9, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    Hey i currently have had this problem, since i upraged my computer from 98’s shit to 2005 stuff… ive been trying to fix it by downgrading to xp from vista, change virtual memory to bigger, but when i try to launch it my cpu performance goes up straight, and comes message system low on memory, after effect works fine on me its just the sony vegas, please help?

    Dilsoc Hansen replied 13 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Stephen Mann

    June 9, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    Does no one search the forum archives?

    I am repeating myself, again, but here’s my explanation on memory:

    Low Memory or Out of Memory does not mean “Not enough RAM”, though adding RAM can sometimes fix a “Low Memory” waning. A “Low Memory” warning usually means that you have exceeded your commit limit. You need either a bigger page file, more physical memory, or both.

    One of the biggest sources of confusion over Windows memory usage is the whole concept of virtual memory compared to physical memory. Windows organizes memory, physical and virtual, into pages. Each page is a fixed size (typically 4 KB). To make things more confusing, there’s also a page file (sometimes referred to as a paging file and dynamic RAM). Many Windows users still think of this as a swap file, a bit of disk storage that is only called into play when you absolutely run out of physical RAM. In versions of Windows starting with Vista, that is no longer the case. The most important thing to realize is that physical memory and the page file added together equal the commit limit, which is the total amount of virtual memory that all processes can reserve and commit.

    All Windows since XP (and Unix/Linux for that matter) always wants to have page space. Always. Programs (including drivers and codecs) like to and are allowed to pre-allocate as much memory as they want. Even if they are never ever going to actually use it. Sometimes those programs properly deallocate memory, sometimes they don’t (resulting in “memory leak”). Sometimes, programs leave parts of themselves in allocated memory just in case you are going to run that program again. (MS Word, Excel and other Office programs are particularly adept at this). If you have no page file and a program wants to commit some for itself, your PC will crash (AKA, BSOD, or Blue Screen of Death).

    Paging file configuration is in the System properties, which you can get to by typing “sysdm.cpl” into the Run dialog, clicking on the Advanced tab, clicking on the Performance Options button, clicking on the Advanced tab (this is really advanced), and then clicking on the Change button. I would suggest a value of 1.5X the currently allocated value. The old advice of 2X or 3X your RAM is, well, old advice when a few MB of RAM was normal. The largest paging file that you can select in Windows is 4,095 megabytes (MB).

    Also, Windows supports up to 16 paging files, but each must be on a separate volume, so if you have more than one internal disk drive you could try enabling a Paging File on your second hard-disk. DO NOT put a paging file on an external drive because if it’s not present when Windows boots, then Windows will crash.

    For more information, see https://support.microsoft.com/kb/237740 and https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2267427

    Steve Mann
    MannMade Digital Video
    http://www.mmdv.com

  • Lauri Johnson

    June 10, 2011 at 9:12 am

    IVE UPRAGED MY RAM its 4GB NOW, BUT IT WORKED WHEN I ONLY HAD 2GB!!!! BEFORE I UPRAGED MY MOTHERBOARD, PROCESSOR AND VIDEO CARD IT WORKED FINE!! , and ive fuking searched the forums, theres no thing that has worked for me, virtual memory, page file and memory test. it has not been doing anything…

  • Stephen Mann

    June 10, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    You upgraded your RAM, Motherboard, Processor and video card – that’s a new computer.

    If you replaced the motherboard, then you *must* re-install Windows. If it works at all from the old installation (since I assume that you’re using the original HDD), I would be surprised.

    Windows and the registry are tightly connected to the hardware interface in the motherboard BIOS.

    Steve Mann
    MannMade Digital Video
    http://www.mmdv.com

  • Lauri Johnson

    June 11, 2011 at 7:32 pm

    ive reinstalled windows like 6 times, nothing changed, expect that in the firs time after reinstalling windows sony vegas 7 worked, but now even that wont work

  • Dilsoc Hansen

    March 22, 2013 at 8:16 am

    having the exactly same problem fixed?

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