Gigabyte GTX 560 Graphics card acceleration fails

[Mark Barton]

So you are running 296.10 of the Nvidia drivers? What kind of failure are you seeing? What source and settings are you using?

[Scott Francis]

Vegas is wrong…..I have never had a render finish without turning off the GPU or Automatic setting. I use CPU only and it works like a charm. Plus, unless you are using an older CPU, I find it faster anyway….
Good luck

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Peter Brown]

Hi Mark
Thanks for your reply
My Driver is indeed 296-10 downloaded a couple of days ago,

The failure I get is when rendering I just get the “Vegas stopped working: screen and have to close Vegas.
I am not sure what you mean by “source” & Settings” as I don’t see any settings for the video card acceleration ? and the source ???

My System is:
Intel i7 2600@3.4Ghz
16GB DDR3
64 bit windows 7 pro

Peter

[Al Bergstein]

I too had tons of same kind of problems with the latest versions of nVidea drivers. I ended up turning off GPU acceleration and eventually pulled the card and switched over to ATI. Problems solved, for now.

Al

[Mark Barton]

I meant what video source are you editing? AVCHD 1080p, MiniDV, etc. What format are you trying to render to in other words what are you selecting in the Render As dialog.

My renders complete with the GPU turned on, but that could be that we are not using the same plugins.

[Peter Brown]

Hello again Mark
I am rendering AVCHD 1080×1920 50p video from my camera.
I render with the Blu ray 1920x 50i 25mbps template
No audio I render that separatly,

Pete

[Mark Barton]

I have successfully done similar, where I used 60p footage and rendered to 60i with the GPU turned on. As a test right now I took a 2min 23s video project I am working on that was shot at 1080p x 60p and chose Render As for Blu-Ray 1920×1080-50i. It completed successfully in about 4 min.

[Peter Brown]

Hello again Mark
Yes I can do the same but when I render a whole project of say an hour of video it fails after a while,
Try it

[Jim Greene]

Vegas 11, nVidia GTX570, set to auto, CUDA does help timeline preview especially with multiple streams in multicam mode, mostly there are no weird hangs or crashes. There have been many people thinking that an insufficient power supply has caused their problems. I’m using a Seasonic 850W psu.

-Jim.

[Mark Barton]

I just rendered a 2 hour source media clip shot at 1920x1080x60p AVCHD into the Blu-Ray 1920x1080x60i template and it completed successfully in about 3 hrs. My project settings were set to match my source media.

Maybe it is the Power supply or memory as someone else suggested. I’m running a gold standard 800W PS and 12GB of Corsair RAM. All “12” CPUs were running 90%+ on my i7 hexcore.