[Jim Cates]

I have norton disabled so it does not run the background..only when
I enable it manually. Also, the resource monitor is not indicating that there is a cpu or memory issue. From my research, poor preview performance seems to be typical with at least Vegas 9….I have
downloaded the trail of Premier to see if I get the same result.

Also, if I run Windows Media Player then go back to Vegas, the timeline wont play. I have to close and re-open Vegas to regain control, so it appears that is some conflict cause this and the very poor preview performance.

[Jim Cates]

Im having exactly the same issues with 9c. My machine is an i7/6gbram/Raid 0 and I can get even the simplest projects to play back smoothly at any preview setting. Running the resource monitor does not show anything out of the ordinary. Very low (1.5gb) ram
usage, moderate HD rates and the CPU barely ever going above 10 percent. There is no correlation between the stutter/freezes and
CPU or HD usage. Im stumped. I have minimized startup programs with Norton Utilities, routinely run anti-virus and Diskpeeper….nothing
seems to make any difference. Im about to jump ship and go with Premier.