Dave Osbun
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Please list all hardware specs (system drives, where video is stored, render drive, CPU, etc.).
Dave
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It is highly annoying when developers do this. It’s also a good idea to run ‘services.msc’ and do a cleanup in there. Many are set to ‘automatic’, hence usually run at startup (these are tied to the registry entries you spoke of), so I just set them to manual. I usually ‘sweep’ my system about twice a year. I don’t download much, luckily.
Dave
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I have the HD7850 2GB card in my system, but I have the Ivy Bridge i5-3570k processor. My render times are 1:1 (4 minute clip took 4 minutes to render) and system is perfectly stable.
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I have seen systems that performed poorly because old drivers were somehow conflicting with new/updated drivers. There are utilities that completely remove old drivers, allowing you a perfect, clean hardware/driver install. Here is a link that might fix your problem (but you’ll have to install the latest drivers when you’re done with it):
https://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/27/driver-sweeper-2-1-completely-uninstall-drivers/Hope this helps,
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Not sure if this will work with a Windows 8 box, but if there is a ‘Run’ box, type: msconfig
A window should open, click on the ‘Startup’ tab. Uncheck EVERYTHING that has a check mark EXCEPT your anti-virus software. Reboot the computer.Many programs that are installed/downloaded will enable themselves to ‘semi-start’ on computer boot, which uses up system resources- degrading performance. By unchecking their startup they will still open/run fine, but not ‘semi-start’ when you boot up the computer.
Dave
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What Stephen said is a MUST for any workstation. The only thing that should be enabled to run when the computer boots up is your anti-virus software.
If you don’t know how to make this change, type ‘msconfig’ in the ‘Run’ box. Click the ‘startup’ tab and deselect everything that has a checkmark except your anti-virus software.
I have seen many systems where people complained how slow the computer ran, and when I had them make this change they were AMAZED at how much faster the computer ran (and booted).
You’d be surprised how much bloatware is added there when you download/install stuff.
Dave
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I don’t feel that you’re going to be happy with a poster print from a video frame. There’s a reason that advertising photographers use medium and large format cameras (and 20+ megapixel digital camera backs today) for advertising photography.
Dave
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I’d go with the Radeon HD7870 LE. You should be able to find one for around $230. Radeon cards work fine with Vegas 12 Pro (I personally use the Radeon HD7850). I can’t tell you how well it’ll take advantage of the GPU rendering since I don’t know how CPU you’re using, nor the rest of your system specs.
In the $180-$280 price range, the performance of the Radeon cards are better than the nVidia cards (i’m not saying that nVidia is a bad choice, however).
Dave
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Where are you seeing this bad quality, in the preview window? If so, that doesn’t mean your final output will be bad. It only means that your graphics card isn’t powerful enough to give you nice, smooth preview playback.
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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