[Shawn Bossick]

Thanks Mark for all the detailed info, my old card the Radeon HD 4670 had no GPU functions, it ran ok, I’ve tried to new graphic cards, the NVIDIA GTX 570, & the RADEON 6950, both of these cards have GPU capabilities, both of these cards are now creating new skipping problems, dropping of frames, I even put a whole new operating system on a soilid state drive to help improve performance, BUT no luck.

In conclusion my old Radeon HD 4670 card that had no GPU on it ran much smoother then the 2 brand new way more powerful cards, WHY?
I must be over looking something, I just cant figure out WHAT?

[Shawn Bossick]

Boris is awesome!! I use magic bullet looks ALL the time!
correct me if I’m wrong colorista is not available within vegas?
would love to have more Boris products available within Vegas, work on that would you Steve, L.O.L.

[Shawn Bossick]

Yes that is correct, when I upgraded my card I went & bought the NVIDIA GTX 570 once it was installed with the current new drivers, that’s when the system took a turn for the worst, instead of upgrading performance, it actually decreased performance drastically! this is why I’ve been flooding the forum here with questions? trying to figure out why? so after not being able to get my system to play back smoothly on one solo track I exchanged the GTX 570 for the Radeon HD 6950, thinking WELL let’s try this one, HOWEVER after putting in this new card, there was still the NEW ISSUE of all this skipping frames.

Stephen after both cards being FAR worse than my old card, I went out & bought a FAST solid state drive for my operating system, installed windows 7 64 bit onto it, & installed the latest version of Vegas, EVERYTHING now is up to date & brand new,
BUT NOTHING made a difference within Vegas, even though my over all rating of my computer jumped from a score of 5.6 to 7.1 Vegas is running poorer now that I have upgraded my graphic card, what is causing this DECREASE in performance? within Vegas? is it GPU features? I dont know? all I know is something is not right!
Selecting no GPU within Vegas, under the preference video tab, does not improve or make Vegas ANY DIFFERENT no change!

Again my old card had no GPU these 2 new cards do,
do you think there might be an issue with GPU & uncompressed AVCHD files, at this point it’s ALL I can think of? only 1 thing changed on my system when I first started this task, & that was simply up grade my graphics card, & I’ve done it now with 2 different cards both having the same results
DECREASE IN PERFORMANCE
in conclusion my old Radeon HD 4670 card that had no GPU functions on it ran WAY,WAY, better, the million dollar question is WHY? this card is at least 3 years old, small & tiny, so I must be doing something wrong! but what?

[Shawn Bossick]

Stephen, I have a new operating system now, so everything is new on it, I don’t know what to do? Vegas is not running smooth even on 1 track, I have tried turning off the GPU within Vegas, by going into preferences/ video tab then selecting none for GPU acceleration, but nothing changes? are there settings I need to look at within the Radeon 6950 card, turn something on or off, adjust something? this new Radeon HD 6950 has to be better then my old Radeon HD 4670?

any suggestions would be MUCH appreciated!!

[Shawn Bossick]

Mark what kind of files are you working with?

Maybe I’m not asking the right question here, my old graphic card the Radeon 4670 had no GPU capability, I was able to edit & work in HD with .mts files uncompressed AVCHD, I upgraded my operating system windows 7 64 bit, & had it installed on a FAST solid state hard drive, I upgraded my graphic card to a card that has GPU acceleration the Radeon 6950, this new card SHOULD be far better then my old card, however now vegas stutters, drops frames & I cannot get 1 track to playback smoothly
WHAT HAPPENED? how can I resolve this? this is also the second card I have put into the system in the last few days, the first card I tried was the GTX 570, when it skipped like crazy I thought maybe I bought the wrong card so I bought the Radeon, but it skips too

Any suggestions? what functions should I be looking at, there must be something I am doing wrong!

Thanks all!!

[Shawn Bossick]

Thanks dave for your reply!
I don’t have any effects running, I’m in preview mode & I cannot get one track to play without skipping frames HARDCORE, I really feel I must be missing something! I’ve been working with Vegas now for 8 years

Maybe I’m not asking the right question here, my old graphic card the Radeon 4670 had no GPU capability, I was able to edit & work in HD with .mts files uncompressed AVCHD, I upgraded my operating system windows 7 64 bit, & had it installed on a FAST solid state hard drive, I upgraded my graphic card to a card that has GPU acceleration the Radeon 6950, this new card SHOULD be far better then my old card, however now vegas stutters, drops frames & I cannot get 1 track to playback smoothly
WHAT HAPPENED? how can I resolve this? this is also the second card I have put into the system in the last few days, the first card I tried was the GTX 570, when it skipped like crazy I thought maybe I bought the wrong card so I bought the Radeon, but it skips too

Any suggestions? what functions should I be looking at, there must be something I am doing wrong!

Thanks all!!

[Shawn Bossick]

Lance I’m running AVCHD .Mts files straight from my camera into Vegas with no conversion, & I’ve tried both 3.0 external hard drives & sata 7200 rpm internal hard drives.
Yes I know that solid state would be better, BUT AGAIN, my old crappy card with no GPU ran better, WHY?

So I returned the GTX 570 & got the Radeon 6950 as they did not have the 6970 dave, guess what? NO LUCK! what the hell! I just spent 2 full days trying 2 different cards that Sony said runs better because of GPU acceleration, my old Radeon 4670 had none, Now my system is not really functional, plain & simple this is not complaining it’s facts.

So now I have bought a solid state drive for my operating system & I’m gonna AGAIN wipe the slate clean, EVERYTHING being reloaded from scratch WHY? cause I don’t know what else to do? is there any settings you have to tweak on these cards? or is it just put the card in update the drivers & go into video preferences tab & turn on GPU? is that it? is there anything else that needs to be done?

GPU with AVCHD raw Mts files GOOD or BAD what works?

[Shawn Bossick]

Thank you all for commenting, quickly I’ve been on vegas for 8 years love it!! my system, I would think would be better, I’m always upgrading but with no real improvement, so I’m bummed & confused here! I need to have at least 1 track with no effects that does not skip frames.

Guys my old card, the Radeon HD 4670 I bought 3 years ago worked better than the GTX 570 I want to make sure I’ve got this right! there’s nothing you have to do than put the new card in & install the drivers then go into your video preference tab & engage the GPU option 3 steps there is that it?

& Steve when you say temporarily turn off GPU does that mean only 1 step go into video preference dialog box & select option none verses GPU? is there anything you have to change on the GTX settings?

Dave I’m thinking by what you wrote to exchange the GTX 570 for the Radeon HD 6970 is that what you would recommend?

Thanks ALL!!

[Shawn Bossick]

[James Adams] “Now windows media player still had the extra contrast but I’d guess it has to do with some WMP setting”

James glad it’s helping
OK now did you notice that when you did this procedure that windows media player also IMPROVED yes?

you should also see a big difference in windows
are you saying that it improved BUT it’s still just a little off only in the windows media player?

[Shawn Bossick]

[Dom Wright] “Thanks, but when I try to click on the corrupted clip, Sony Vegas just freezes and stops responding”

OK so now you are saying you found a corrupted clip? one that when you click on it Vegas freezes? if this is the case, you need to do what I said in my first post to you, go into windows explorer where your corrupted clip is at, either A (remove that clip from It’s folder, placing somewhere else or B rename the clip)
after doing this now open up your session Vegas will say it cant find that file anymore, that’s OK because if you now know that is the clip causing the problem you need to remove it from your session so you no longer have issues with that session, now you will have to replace that clip with something else because that clip has been removed
ALSO when your clip is removed clean up your media pool
so the session has nothing to do with that corrupted file anymore
GOOD LUCK