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Vegas Continues To Crash At An Insane Rate
For example, this morning 3 crashes in the first hour. This has been a norm for me over the past several months. Only it’s just getting worse. No rhyme or reason. Just editing in the timeline. Doing professional multi-track projects. Current project has 4 animated keyed text tracks, keyed green screen talent track, Rampant effects track and a video background track with 3 audio tracks (voice-over and 2-channel stereo music). On my new high-end PC, VP12 can’t handle this much data as there is no way it can playback in the Preview monitor unless I take it to the worst quality where you can see anything.
But that can’t be the cause of the crashing because simple one video, one audio track projects will still crash.
There HAS to be something on my system that Vegas does not like. On boot-up before I open anything, there are 80 processes already running. Most look like Windows crap. Not a tech. Don’t know what they are.
SYSTEM: WIN 7 64bit, 12 Core 3.2GHz CPU, 32GB RAM, 6 internal HDDs, 2 external 9TB RAID-5s, BlackMagic Data Link I/O card, Q4000 graphics card (GPU is currently turned off in VP12), 2 DVD/BD/CD drives and ShuttlePro controller.
MAJOR SOFTWARE: VP12 (670), Adobe Production CS5, Sound Forge, CD Archtect, SpectraLayers, DVDA, Boris RED, ImgBurn, BM Media Express, Epson Disk Maker, iTunes, Quicktime Player, Google Chrome and a few support programs for BM and DVD/BD/CD drives and RAID support.
Looking for someone who can answer why I have 80+ process running in the background and what they are, and does anything in the above ring a bell that may be a bug to VP12? I know it requires “eyes/hands on”. I’m now open for new suggestions.
THX
Ken Bennett
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I’d start with your Windows Startup folder and MSConfig’s Startup. Every item that is checked (Enabled), inspect the Manufacturer and Command (path) for “suspicious” entries.
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Without a doubt, something in your system is specifically
causing Vegas to be crashing and behaving like that, but
it is very, very hard to tell you exactly what is causing it
from just the info.Do you have windows automatic update turned on? if it is,
it could also be a windows update that throws Vegas off balance.Steve Rhoden
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HOW is the crash presented? Blue Screen, Not Responding, Driver error?
Is the PC overclocked?
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Just wondering – are any or all of the events on your timeline sourced from the external raid box?
Windows 7 Pro64, i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, SSD boot drive, GTX 570 Graphics, Vegas Pro 12
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The RAID contains all captured raw data and Vegas accesses the RAID for footage for editing. Each project pulls video/audio from the RAID and other data from several different drives.
Ken Bennett
Video Adventures
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Crashes happen 3 ways: 1- everything stops and the “Vegas has encountered a problem and is shutting down” pop-up appears. I can at least get data from this crash. 2- a smaller pop-up appears with 3 choices, again stating Vegas has encountered a problem. My only real option is to “close” Vegas. No data is provided. 3- the entire Vegas interface just vanishes from the screen. No warning. No message. Just “poof” and it’s gone. (Not even a “poof”).
I would get the “Not Responding” but that hasn’t been happening here.
Ken Bennett
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Windows auto update is off. Never trust Windows anyway. I have gone into my “Start ups” and turned off several that I feel don’t need to be running. And I’ve deleted one program so far. I’ll see if this has any affect. If not, I’ll look deeper into other background stuff and other programs that might be bugging Vegas.
Ken Bennett
Video Adventures
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Tyson, I’ve started this process. Thanks.
Ken Bennett
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I doubt that the external drives have anything to do with the problem. As the OP suggested, there’s something in the system that Vegas doesn’t like.
By the way, 80 processes in the background is not at all unusual. My office PC is running over a hundred. All operating systems have background processes running but Windows has more. Many programs, especially those from Microsoft, such as MS Office, Explorer, etc, pre-load into RAM so that they start faster than the competition. And by being pre-loaded, the processes those programs need are also running. I do not have Photoshop, MS Office or Explorer on my editing PC, nor do I have it running eMail. I occasionally use Chrome to download updates to Vegas or other Vegas support programs. (Chrome is a memory hog, too).
I keep asking if the PC or graphics card are overclocked because your symptoms sure sound to me like an overclocked PC hitting the wall.
Bad memory is a possibility, but that usually crashes the computer – not a single program. But you can run Memtest overnight to stress all of your RAM.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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