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Vegas 11 Pro 64 bit is crashing like crazy
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“while Sony works the bugs out”
This is why I am extremely reluctant to help anyone to fix their PC. The program works just fine on hundreds of other users’ PC’s, but it doesn’t work in mine, so it must be a bug in the software.
Did you turn off GPU support in “Preferences”?
Look at the Windows Updates – are there any that failed?I have one workstation with the GT450 video card, and its’ overall reliability – not just Vegas – was pathetic. Just a thought.
Did you ever have an ATI video card installed? If yes, then it’s drivers could be still around and interfering with your nVidia drivers.
Use the Windows Reliability viewer (start “Reliability”) to look at any specific incidents for a clue.
Also, download and install Version 12 in the demo mode. See if that fixes your immediate problem.
Last, you didn’t install any Codec Packs, did you?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I haven’t read the replies but check to see if it’s a corrupt file. You can do search to find a few different workflows on how to weed out a bad file.
Secondly and much more importantly, you owe it to your paying clients and to your sanity to have redundancies in place. A second OS/ghost drive that can be plugged in when ever you have a problem is a lifesaver!!
Have a second computer as well, it doesn’t have to be behemoth, just enough to get job done if the need arises. (Mine hides in the shadow as a htpc)
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[Stephen Mann] “This is why I am extremely reluctant to help anyone to fix their PC. The program works just fine on hundreds of other users’ PC’s, but it doesn’t work in mine, so it must be a bug in the software.
Did you turn off GPU support in “Preferences”?
Look at the Windows Updates – are there any that failed?Not sure what you mean by failed, but I don’t think so.
I have one workstation with the GT450 video card, and its’ overall reliability – not just Vegas – was pathetic. Just a thought.
Did you ever have an ATI video card installed? If yes, then it’s drivers could be still around and interfering with your nVidia drivers.
I used to, yes. The last time I had that was in Oct of 2011 or so (when I realized that, even though my card was listed as supported by Sony, I couldn’t get it to utilize GPU acceleration with it), and Vegas has worked mostly fine in the last two years. I’ll see if there are any drivers from it, though.
Use the Windows Reliability viewer (start “Reliability”) to look at any specific incidents for a clue.
Also, download and install Version 12 in the demo mode. See if that fixes your immediate problem.
Last, you didn’t install any Codec Packs, did you?”
No codec packs.
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[Angelo Mike] “Yes, I regularly get Microsoft updates. I don’t make system restore points, though.”
Do you realize how dangerous that is? You update your computer constantly and randomly without any backups and then you wonder why it stops working like it use to.
I would turn off Microsoft automatic updates and only apply them manually once a month AFTER you have performed a complete backup. Anything less is playing Russian Roulette with your livelihood.
~jr
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Angelo, Please turn of that Microsoft Updates.
Steve Rhoden
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Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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Gaaaaaaaah.
Edit: Ok.
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I’ve never turned off MS Updates, but I don’t let them run automatically. I select them a few at a time so that it’s easy to back up and troubleshoot the issue. Which rarely happens.
Not updating Windows is a huge mistake. (Note, I can count the number of Vegas crashes over the past several years on one hand, so I must be doing something right.)
Imagine that Microsoft does an update to the.net libraries. Months later you get a driver update that wants to use those new .net features, but you didn’t update ,net, so of course the driver crashes.
I strongly recommend using a separate PC for editing. Here’s a graphic example of why:
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Stephen Mann] “Not updating Windows is a huge mistake.”
Yea, I was certainly not implying that you never update Windows. Like I said, you should allow it to update ONCE a month and only AFTER a full backup so that you can recover from anything Microsoft has broken and I have personally been the impacted by this breakage twice, especially since Vegas Pro makes use of the .Net Framework. Microsoft loves to break that.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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