render = blue screen of death

[Norman Willis]

>> I wish I knew how to work these things.

That is why you are getting practice 🙂

Norman Willis
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[Andy Gunn]

so, I’ve done all the updates, googled the aec.sys file, which says it’s a timing issue with windows, downloaded the fix, but it says I’ve got SP3 so I don’t need to..
I tried disabling the uad plugins on the audio channel incase it was that, but to no avail.
BUT, the thing is I tried exporting an avi and it worked! so it’s just the rendering MP2 and MP4 that blows it up. So this is progress.

Any ideas why it flips out on those particular files?

[John Rofrano]

Any ideas why it flips out on those particular files?

Well… MP4 is a lot more CPU intensive to render. What was the error at the top of the blue screen? The very top left has an error all in upper case. This might give another clue. I’m starting to think it might be memory related. You might want to run memtest86 on your PC for a couple of hours (overnight) and see if it finds any memory errors.

~jr

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[Mark Davey]

Having also experienced a lot of BSODs when rendering, on a Win 7 64x box with Vegas 9.0e 64x and with 8Gb the problem appeared to lie (bizarrely) with my markers – I had well over 100x. Rendering small projects was ok, but recent projects have been 1h45+ and with 3 cameras (AVCHD & HD) into both mpeg2 and mpeg4. Try splitting the project up and ensuring that only the stuff you really really needs is in it (save as is your friend here too)…

[John Rofrano]

What does the BSOD tell you is wrong? Have you tried to fix it?

~jr

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[Mark Davey]

John,

The BSODs are quite varied – although ‘page fault in non-paged area’ is probably most frequent. I have run the diagnostic MEMory tests – and now, given I am not having to attempt overnight renders, will run the deep/long versions. Yes a page fault is technically a Windows issue, but given they only occur while rendering (very large) video files, in Vegas, is a tad suspicious!

https://ezinearticles.com/?How-Can-You-Get-Rid-of-Page-Fault-in-Non-Paged-Area-Error&id=4447101

I regularly use CCleaner, and have a 1TB raid locally (on stitch host) and a 4TB NAS. It’s an older 9800GX2 graphics card (and yes, I am contemplating upgrading) with 8Gb nonEEC DDR2 8000Mhz RAM appropriate to the system.

I can only assume maybe there is a corruption in the source video files – but given it now renders (admittedly in halves) – perhaps not?

[John Rofrano]

Yea, that’s a nasty (broad) error to track down. Are you sure that your memory is running at the proper speed with the proper voltages? I’ve purchased memory where I’ve had to manually adjust the settings because the motherboard did not detect them correctly. Just something to look into.

~jr

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