[Lech Biegalski]

Thank you all for sharing your expertise with me. The problem is now solved. It was, indeed, a hardware issue. After replacing one i7 CPU with a more current i7CPU, which also required a replacement of the motherboard and the BIOS, and after replacing my older video card with the AMD (MSI) Radeon™ RX 480 Graphics Card, my computer renders all formats without problems and with an impressive speed. The upgrade cost me around $1500 but it was well worth the money. Yes, I am still using the same software (Sony Vegas Pro 13) that had been failing before the hardware upgrade.

The current configuration is:

– Windows 10 pro 64-bit
– Motherboard: ASUS (All Series)
– BIOS: BIOS date: 4/26/16, ver. 05.0000B
– Processor: Inter(R) Core(TM) i7-6800K CPU @ 3.40GHz (12 CPUs)
– Memory: 16GB RAM
– DirectX version: 12
– Video Card: Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics Card with 8GB memory

(I am just quoting what I see with the dxdiag function. My technical knowledge about computers is not sufficient to comment on the hardware.)

[Lech Biegalski]

Nigel: – Thank you for the info. It looks like the guys at Canada Computers are going in the following direction:

Since the crashes still occurred after installing the MSI RX-480 video card, they brought their own motherboard and CPU from home, connected it to my computer (with my new video card) and tested it last night. It rendered slowly but went on for considerable time without crashing. We don’t know whether this would be the solution, as the store closed at 8 and we had to leave before the rendering ended. We will check it tomorrow and continue testing. If it renders consistently, we will put an new CPU and motherboard in. Even though I would like to avoid the extra cost, I have to upgrade the computer, or else I will not be able to render GoPro footage (MP4) mixed with the footage from the Sony PXW-Z150 (XAVC-L) at all – and this is my ultimate goal for which I spent money on the cameras.

The remaining question is this: Assuming that the rendering with the new video card, CPU and motherboard works consistently, would you still recommend to roll back to Windows 7? Do you think that the software issues with Windows 10 will be addressed by Microsoft in future updates?

Thanks, again.

[Lech Biegalski]

Thank you for your reply. We will have this checked. Please tell me why you think that Windows 7 is better for Sony Vegas. How about Windows 8?

[Lech Biegalski]

Update 1:

We have just upgraded to MSI Radeon RX 480 Video Card, following reports that Sony Vegas works better with AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing cards (OpenCL) than with NVIDIA (Cuda) cards. No improvement, the rendering of GoPro MP4 clips to Sony XAVC-L MXF format still crashes the computer to the blue screen and the CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT error message.

Any suggestions?