Sony Vegas Pro 12 GPU Acceleration CRASH!

[David Alfredo]

I would suggest uninstalling your 6870 completely, even pulling it out of the PCI-E port, then starting Vegas in default mode (CTRL+SHIFT while booting) and see whether the motherboard’ built-in GPU is enabled in preferences->video, it it’s then disable it both in Sony Vegas and if possible in the PC BIOS, uninstall its drivers too, after all this put your 6870 back in your PC and install the latest drivers, restart your OS and try booting VEGAS, should work.

of course I’m assuming the GPU is well-powered, not damaged, using latest drivers and not overclocked (same for the CPU, some software is more sensitive to overclocking than other depending on the hardware), also assuming Vegas 12 is original software as well as the OS. Good Luck !

[John Rofrano]

You might want to start by disabling the motherboard AMD Radeon HD 3200 in the BIOS so that there is only one graphics card in the system. Otherwise, David gave some good advice for further debugging.

~jr

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[Dave Osbun]

Pulling the PCIe graphics card out of the system is not needed. Just simply go into the mobo BIOS and make sure the onboard video is disabled.

I don’t feel that the 6870 card is going to give you any benefit by having GPU rendering enabled (unless your cpu is an Intel i3 or equivalent). If you disable GPU rendering your crashing will go away.

Just so you know, I use the 2gb 7850 Radeon card and with GPU enabled it gives the same render time as with GPU disabled (with i5 3570k cpu.

Dave

[Iiro Kokkonen]

And now… Would you explain me wtf is bios, i’m no good at this sorry 🙁

Y.O.L.O

[John Rofrano]

[Iiro Kokkonen] “And now… Would you explain me wtf is bios, i’m no good at this sorry :(“

The Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) is the first screen that you see when you turn on your PC. Usually there is a message at the bottom that says press Del or F2 to change the settings. These settings control the computer hardware. One of the thing you can do is disable components that are not needed. This allows you to disable the on-board graphics when you add a second graphics card. Some computers are smart enough to switch between the two but some are not and require one of them to be disabled. If you added the second card yourself and didn’t disable the motherboard card, this may be your problem. If you don’t know what the BIOS is… I wouldn’t touch it. Bring your computer to a qualified technician to troubleshoot your problems.

~jr

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[Iiro Kokkonen]

All right, I have managed to disable the hd 3200 but still no luck. Why is this happening? Vegas 11 was working a month ago but not anymore…. is there a way to launch the program without gpu acceleration?

Y.O.L.O

[David Alfredo]

have you updated your VGA drivers recently? maybe the set you’re using now is buggy with Vegas, try rolling back to the version you were using when Vegas was running fine, if you didn’t update then it could be damaged system Vegas files or driver files, I’d try a fresh re-install of the OS with the on-board VGA disabled, updated Radeon drivers and latest Vegas built, you know sometimes the OS registry gets messed up.

[John Rofrano]

I agree with David. If it worked before and doesn’t work now you have to figure out what changed about your system. Drivers are a good place to start.

~jr

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[Iiro Kokkonen]

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!!! I got it work, i had to update my AMD catalyst thing… (facepalm) I’m so stupid 😀 thank you for your time and help, the HD 3200 was another trouble i wanted to correct and now it’s done 🙂 thank you so much!! 🙂

Y.O.L.O

[David Poulton]

i have this same issue with my graphic driver version 13.1 (latest) i am going to try rollback to 12.8 and see if that fixed the problem