how much ram can vegas 9 64 bit handle

[Jeremy Rasnic]

I would say yes there is an advantage if you do pre renders or ram previews. I have an dual processor 8 core system and I have 8 gigs of ram. You really need about two gigs of ram per each cpu core. I really need 16 gigs of ram for mine.

Vegas 9 is limited by only what windows can handle.

j razz

https://www.jrazzcreations.com

[James Houghtaling]

I recently upgraded to a i7 system with 12 gigs of RAM. I’m running Win7 but currently using vegas 8c (32bit). I’m rendering my first video now on this system and while all 4 cores (8 threads) and running around 60-70% my RAM usage never hits 4 gigs. This is frustrating. Does the 64-bit versions of Vegas have the capability to use more RAM than the 32-bit versions or is there something I can do to improve this situation with the 32-bit Vegas?

[John Rofrano]

> Does the 64-bit versions of Vegas have the capability to use more RAM than the 32-bit versions

Absolutely! That’s the whole purpose for going 64-bit to break the 4GB addressablility barrier of 32-bit systems. 4,294,967,296 is the largest number that you can represent with 32 bits therefore there is no way for a 32-bit system to use more than 4GB of memory. Vegas Pro 64-bit can use all the memory that Vista 64 has.

The next question you need to ask is how much memory that various versions of Vista 64 can handle because Microsoft is up to it’s old tricks in artificially limiting it’s OS’s to get you to buy the most expensive one. Vista Home Basic can only address 8GB of memory while Vista Home Premium is limited to 16GB of memory and Vista Business, Enterprise, & Ultimate can address 128GB.

~jr

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

[James Houghtaling]

I skipped the Vista train altogether and went with Win7 64-bit. But it sounds like a 64-bit OS alone won’t help Vegas unless I get the 64bit Vegas as well.

Thanks for the reply.

[Norman Willis]

Hi John.

>>The next question you need to ask is how much memory that various versions of Vista 64 can handle because Microsoft is up to it’s old tricks in artificially limiting it’s OS’s to get you to buy the most expensive one. Vista Home Basic can only address 8GB of memory while Vista Home Premium is limited to 16GB of memory and Vista Business, Enterprise, & Ultimate can address 128GB.

Here is what I don’t get. Why limit Home Basic to 4GB of RAM, and then give people the option of clogging up their SDHC card reader slot (or one USB slot) with “Ready Boost” RAM? Why not just enable Vista Home Basic to read 8GB of RAM? Wouldn’t that make the product ‘better’, and better able to compete with Apple (to which they had been losing a lot of market share)?

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[John Rofrano]

> Here is what I don’t get. Why limit Home Basic to 4GB of RAM, and then give people the option of clogging up their SDHC card reader slot (or one USB slot) with “Ready Boost” RAM? Why not just enable Vista Home Basic to read 8GB of RAM?

They were going for a price point for people who had minimal requirements. 4GB of RAM is an expensive waste of money to anyone who just wants to surf the Internet and do word processing. Not everyone wants to edit video. 😉

> Wouldn’t that make the product ‘better’, and better able to compete with Apple (to which they had been losing a lot of market share)?

Home Basic is not competing with Apple. I don’t even think Home Basic has the Aero interface. It is an extremely basic version for people with very basic needs.

~jr

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