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  • external graphic card for Imac ? Is it possible in june 2013?

    Posted by Marie-claude Sauvé on June 5, 2013 at 5:36 am

    Hello!
    I’ve made lots of search about ading an external graphic card to my I-mac i7 (with thunderbolt). I’s very hard to find out between all those differents advices.
    Is it now possible in june 2013?
    I use sony vegas in bootcamp and always have message of satured memory and I have to reboot often in order to make a render in HD.

    I have:
    3,4 GHz Intel Core i7
    16 Go 1333 MHz DDR3
    AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB
    Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)

    I use Vegas with Windows 7 64 bits
    And my bootcamp partition for windows is very large (80%)

    Any advices?

    Marie-Claude Sauvé
    http://www.deve.ca

    John Rofrano replied 13 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
  • 6 Replies
  • Marie-claude Sauvé

    June 5, 2013 at 5:38 am

    Ho yeah, forgot to say I use Sony Vegas 10

    Marie-Claude Sauvé
    http://www.deve.ca

  • John Rofrano

    June 6, 2013 at 11:32 pm

    Sony Vegas Pro 10.0 doesn’t make much use of a GPU (only for a few render formats) and you already have a AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB in your iMac. I’m not sure what you’re looking for but Vegas Pro 10.0 isn’t going to use it anyway.

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

  • Marie-claude Sauvé

    June 7, 2013 at 12:00 am

    Ok, thanks for answering, at least this is clear!

    So I’ll have to find another solutions to my rendering problems.

    I often have messages that says virtual memory saturated even after a rebooting and with all programmes closed except Vegas.

    I have to make my big rendering (something like 10 minutes in full HD) in an another computer where I work.

    Is it normal with that kind of computer with this configuration?

    Thank you! That help a lot!

    Marie-Claude Sauvé
    http://www.deve.ca

  • John Rofrano

    June 7, 2013 at 10:36 am

    Running out of memory like that with 16GB of memory is not normal. Are you using the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Vegas Pro 10? You need to use the 64-bit version to take advantage of all of that memory. If you are using the 32-bit version you are only using 2GB which could be your problem.

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

  • Marie-claude Sauvé

    June 13, 2013 at 4:27 pm

    Hi John Rofrano!

    I want to thank you for your help! I now have Sony Vegas 64 bits and it work perfectly! A little detail that change everything!
    Have a wonderful day!

    Marie-Claude Sauvé
    http://www.deve.ca

  • John Rofrano

    June 14, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    You’re welcome. I’m glad that fix the problem for you.

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

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