[Matt Flay]

Thanks Norman… Yes, no disrespect Dave, I’m sure you know a lot more about this than I do – but I chose this card as within my budget, on vegas forums and benchmark tests it performed very well. It was clear the newer GTX series of Nvidea cards are not great on Vegas, but because I want to also use the pc for occasional gaming in high settings, an older gtx5** series was not going to cut the mustard for that. Read many people say they have a great experience on Vegas with the 7970 and 280/90x AMD cards.

And Norman, so you say the card is not used when viewing videos on the timeline – so are there any tweaks you can suggest that could be made to make it better? Even minus the GPU, its still a pretty capable processor I believe, and 16GB of ram should be enough no? Can always buy another 16GB, no big deal, if that will help you think.

Thanks for your help

[Matt Flay]

Hi there. Thanks for your reply. Yes, I do have the project settings the same as the source. I may have made some advances with the pre render… As I said I am new to this – I am pretty good on a pc but looking into things like this now I’m only starting to learn how they actually work.

I said some pre renders worked some didnt. It’s because I did not have the ram set high enough (on those occasions it didn’t work). Sometimes I would highlight a section to pre render and it would only do a part of it. I allocated much more ram, and got my cpu meter up and could see that actually as u pre render something, the ram usage goes up each time that feature is used. I was under the impression that ram was used all at once, if that makes sense. I didn’t realise you kind of use it up as you go. So when I said it was only using 2.5gb of it, I now know I’d only used that amount… And not that it was not working incorrectly.

However!…. Do I really need to pre render every clip with an effect on in order to be able to watch it back?? My cpu usage on the meter also stays very low and does not seem as though it’s being pushed at all whilst trying to playback in the preview window. And why is my graphics card hardly being used for preview playback? I can run some incredible looking games on that thing at 120 + per second, yet it can’t play back a video with one single effect on it without me having to do that pre rendering stage? I get that vegas is doing a lot of work behind the scenes when I press that play button, but surely it should be capable of doing what I want it to do in at least ‘preview auto / half’ quality.

Again – just hoping there’s some setting I have not set correctly or some little hidden tip that gets it all running smoothly and have the system use it’s full potential.

Thanks again for your help