sony pro vegas 9 render error system low on memory!

[Steve Rhoden]

Also Lee..Let me see a list of all the software you
presently have installed on your computer….
Im looking into something.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Project Samples at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Lee Hayward]

thanks for the reply,

i have:
bitdefender total security
spybot search and destroy
sony pro vegas 9
adobe photoshop cs4 and related elements
arc soft total media
limewire
microsoft office
eusing registry cleaner
win rar

thats about it( i hope this is what you are looking for).
my pc was clean- reformatted a month ago so i havent got that much stuff installed on it.

[Norman Willis]

I am new, but the solutions I have heard so far have been these:

Reboot Vegas, to defrag the swap file, and also to kill any additional instances of Vegas running in the background.

Make sure project properties are the same as render properties.

Kill all Antivirus and Internet Security before starting a render (as you won’t be going online during that time).

In Options > Preferences, set Dynamic RAM Preview to 0. Set number of rendering threads to 1.

If that does not work, please let us know your project properties, and your rendering qualities (including audio).

I hope that helps.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Lee Hayward]

my dynamic ram is already set to 0, rendering threads 4 ( tried 1 but made no diffencre)

already defragmented my pc last night , still no luck,

when killing processes what shall i kill ( also it was fine the last couple days, then 1 hour later and it started happening i dont understand what could of changed within an hour)

my render propeties i will give tomoz, they are HD wmv also tried other but no luck apart from wma ( audio)

will also try rendering with all processes down tomorrow (which onces, i dont want to end a necessary process which runs my system)

what are instances of vegas?

[Norman Willis]

Well, now I’m having rendering problems again!

“Instances of Vegas” means that when you press CTRL-ALT-DEL, and you start Windows Task Manager, sometimes Vegas is running more than once (more than one instance) at the same time.

I’m also interested to know what to kill. I will be interested to follow your progress. Let’s hope one of the ‘big dogs’ will come along soon, so you can get some help.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Lee Hayward]

without vegas open

without vegas open

with vegas open

with vegas open

during render

[Lee Hayward]

ive made a break through and have managed to render 10 clips without doing anything unusual, no ending processes just simply ram to 0 (like i always have it ) and somehow it just decided to work,

But!! now i have the problem again but its NOT always system low on error during the render it just stops and comes up with a large vergas has stopped working error message which gives you an option to write was you was doing at the time and send the report to sony,

i get this everytime i render now, but at diffrenet times it can be 10% or 20 % or anything but it usally stays in a small radius of the previous render zone , example last render error 17 %, this render error 20 % , new render error 15%, so i am thinking this could be related to the hard disk space available, i have 219GB free so it shouldnt be a problem.

so what is causing this, when i had the system is low on memory error it usally came in the 1% , i ocasionally still get the error message but at simiallar times to when the vegas has stopped working errors appear.

what is happening i need to complete the project by this week, so i have 2days to fix the error and complete, please help me, this is now offically driving me insane i just CANT figure out what is causing it, ive had problems before with rendering but this is definetly the worst like i said i was rendering fine a couple days ago with no changes.

i have posted some screenshots above.

[Erling Fenstad]

I got the same shitty problem!
The CPU shoots up to 90-100% but må RAM stays on 40%, cause I got 8GB RAM, and it never reaches more then 75%, but still it says: System LOW on memory.
I almost got 2 GB left!

Please, help us!

[Lee Hayward]

i havent fixed it yet but heres the main thread https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/896864

[Jeorge Soros]

Try to change your virtual memory. Right click on My computer>Properties>Advanced>Performance>Advanced>Virtual memory>set your max and min to the same value e.g. 1024; 1024 and reboot and run the render again!

Hope it helps 🙂