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Blue Screen of Death when rendering
I get a BSOD sometimes when rendering with Sony Vegas, i love the program, and would like to continue using it, but this is a really weird bug or a glitch or something, can anyone figure out whats wrong?
Minidump file: Minidump
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What O/S?
How much RAM?
Which Processor?
How many hard disk drives?
How much free space?
Does the problem present in any other programs?Steve Mann
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What O/S?: Windows 7 64 Bit
How much RAM?: 4 GB
Which Processor?: Intel Core I-5 at 3.30Ghz (Overclocked)
How many hard disk drives?: One
How much free space?: 10-20Gb
Does the problem present in any other programs?: Nope. -
Only one drive and only 10-20Gb free? Vegas needs temp space at least equal to your project size.
How big is your PageFile? 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).
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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That probably explains it, except i have no idea what a pagefile is, do you think i should just free up more space?
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I just found out, it’s 4077Mb
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> Intel Core I-5 at 3.30Ghz (Overclocked)
The 1st thing you have to try — set default CPU frequency.
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I have no idea how to do that
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[Mikhail Petrushin] “The 1st thing you have to try”
I missed that, Mikhail – the first thing I saw was that the OP was running one hard-disk that was almost full.
OP – overclocking is overrated. In video editing the performance improvements of 5% or less is simply not worth the myriad of seemingly unrelated failures that overclocking can induce. If you don’t know how to turn it off you shouldn’t be overclocking. Not to be condescending, but overclocking is something to be left to experts. My recommendation is simple – never. Take the computer where you bought it and make them remove it. Overclocking is simply begging for problems. You never want to overclock unless you know exactly what you are doing and are aware of the potential problems.
Totally OT, but a good place to inject this – NEVER install a CODEC pack on a video editing computer.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I bought it overclocked.
and i’m going through my programs list trying to find as many Codec packs to uninstall as possible
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[Jason Himelreich] “rying to find as many Codec packs to uninstall as possible”
K-Lite is the worst, and the most common.
The CODEC packs are the least of your worries right now. You simply do not have the free space on your hard drive to do video editing. For my workflow, when a 1TB hard disk has less than 100GB free, it’s full. Add a second hard disk for your video projects. Microcenter has a 1.5TB bare drive for $99 today. That, and a desktop USB dock will have you set for a long time. Also, avoid “Green” drives. They are “Green” because they will slow down or even shut down during periods of inactivity.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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