Crashes? Try this technique from Sony.

[Phil Peacock]

Thanks Al. Fair bit of investigation going on there and a very comprehensive posting. I take onboard all you’ve said. Likewise, I have had to avoid, as much as I can, too many VFX and, like you, it wasn’t only NB fx that caused the crashes.

Mike’s suggestion however DOES seem to have worked. Certainly in the short amount of time and the little work I have done since making the alteration. I was already running Win7 but simply setting it to run in compatability mode with Win7 (weird eh?) appears to have stabilised everything.

Good luck with your endeavours though.

[Mike Kujbida]

Phil, my fingers (and toes!!) are crossed that this continues to work for you 🙂
Happy editing.

[Nigel O’neill]

Sony’s tech support response does make some sense, and is the closest thing you can get to a clean install without reinstalling the o/s. Given that your registry bloats over time, you are in effect starting with a clean user profile. It also means that by installing SVP last, any other software that may have overwritten some registry entries or associations SVP depends on, are reinstated.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Al Bergstein]

Revisiting this post a month later. In this time, I changed *one* thing in my setup. I upgraded to a nVidia GTX 570 and a larger power supply. Now, I haven’t pushed my system in terms of New Blue add ins yet, nor any of the other FX that I usually use. But just to mention it, there have not yet been any crashes. Last week shot a 2 camera shoot and have not had any issues yet. This seems to point, given my frequent crashes before, (with Vegas and not with any Adobe products on the same system), that running the 570 seems to be more stable than with a lower class card. We’ll have to see if this ‘good news’ continues. I still feel that Vegas, when stable, is the fastest NLE I’ve worked on. More as the next progresses and I start heaping on the titles and other graphics.

Al

[Nigel O’neill]

Al, I have an NVidia GTX570 and replaced my power supply as it was affecting my RAID setup and crashing Vegas and ultimately, Windoze. I replaced my 650W power supply with a 1050W unit.

Unfortunately, Vegas 11 still crashes on me. The latest, introduced by the most recent update, has really got me peeved. To reproduce it, I simply add a color correction FX to an event on the timeline. Make any adjustment. Exit the FX. Go back into the tweak the FX. The colour wheels are no longer visible and Vegas has a siesta – not responding.

This happens at random to other FX such as contrast and brightness, where the sliders do not appear.

I don’t use SVP11. The CUDA ‘upgrade’ for SVP11 has got to be the biggest con.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Paul Beller]

that is enough!!! what a crap!!!
i ve downgraded to 595. all crashes gone so far. f##k this 6**. I am sorry I had to say that.