Dynamic RAM Preview – AMD 69xx GPU rendering freezes

[Dave Osbun]

Sorry to have to tell you this, but the AMD processor is really a poor choice for a video editing workstation. Have you tried disabling GPU renders, and just letting the CPU do it? Most people that have render issues usually seem to have them disappear when they DO NOT choose the GPU render option. You also have a lower-level video card, so you’re not going to obtain any benefit by having GPU render enabled.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad hardware news, but I wanted to help and answer your question.

Dave

[Roger Bansemer]

I’ve been told that setting the Dynamic Preview Ram to 0 helps.
I have freezes with mine but much less since I’ve set the ram to 0.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Myron Hobizal]

Hmm. Not sure where you are getting your CPU and GPU performance charts. This combination would render just fine and fast, if Sony would get their act together to support OpenCL correctly. The GPU renders1080p with several effects, faster then real-time. Plus I have another x16 slot to add another card. Unfortunately Sony is behind the times with SLI mode too and doesnt support it, as far as I know.

[Dave Osbun]

I get all my charts from detailed tests on the Tom’s Hardware website. I’m not just pulling garbage out of the air when I post hardware ‘stuff’. The tests that I quote from are probably the most detailed hardware tests/comparisons that you’re going to find anywhere.

Don’t blame it on Sony if the AMD architecture is not optimized for specific types of video creation/editing. AMD has their way of doing things, Intel has their way. It just so happens that Intel’s way is significantly better.

Dave

[Myron Hobizal]

I am well aware of all the Intel posts over at Tom’s Hardware. I know there are CPU design differences between Intel/AMD, but that doesn’t excuse the bugs in the Sony software, on the AMD side.

[Bob Peterson]

If you know the problems, it would be very wise on your part to avoid AMD. That’s what I did, and the issue is behind me.

[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Hi Sir,

I am also amd user,i have 4 working machines for video editing and all my working machines working very well.For your information MR.MYRON HOBIZAL,for amds use ASUS motherboard is best choice.My latest working station FX-8350,Its working very well with SVP 12 and my graphic card is GTX-650.My gpu also works very well.Go to my profile check my working station spec.Thanks To Mr.John Rofrano,Mr.Steve and MR.Mark Barton.

Thank You
Thayalan Paramasawam

[Myron Hobizal]

One difference. You have Nvidia graphics card. I have AMD (OpenCL) graphics card which is not working in Vegas. I have contacted Sony Support and they are currently reviewing logs to get a fix. Multiple people with AMD graphics are having issues, not just me. They are looking into it now and when I find out more, Ill post here.

[Rio Martinez]

I had the same problem with my Radeon HD 6850 when rendering in Main-Concept .mp4. The renders either got to 1% or 99% and then froze. After many weeks of on and off troubleshooting, I finally found a solution to my problems. I knew it was a problem with the GPU accelerated renders, so I focused my troubleshooting on that aspect. It turns out that if you are on windows 8 (or I believe 7) you can completely uninstall your Graphics card drivers (if on windows 8 DO NOT use AMD’s driver uninstall cleaner utility as it will bug windows to the point where you have to do a system refresh.) , reboot and then go to AMD’s website and install Catalyst Control Center 12.8 and it’s drivers. Then reboot once more and you should have no more render freezes! This worked for me and I can t guarantee that it will work for you, but hey! it’s worth a try right??

Hope this helped!!