Stephen Mann
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[Alex Gerulaitis] ” 8-core HP xw8400 system with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and 8GB RAM”
Most users are running quad-core or less and can benefit from GPU acceleration. I have seen some users with 8 and 12-core systems that do not see any improvement. The reason is simple – your processor power exceeds what acceleration that GPU assist can provide.
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[Alex Gerulaitis] “What problems are you referring to, Steve?”
A few people have seen crashes when they try to use Vegas Pro 11 with GPU acelleration. The beta driver seems to have fixed the problem for many of them.
It can’t hurt to install the driver. You can always roll it back to the latest released version.
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Please clarify your question. I am seeing two unrelated questions in your posts. First you say the program is shutting down, and then you say you are low on memory. Adding more pagefiles, or making your single pagefile bigger, as well as closing memory hogging programs like Firefox and Thunderbird may help the low memory error from windows.
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I guess that my first question would be, why are you encoding WMV?
Unless you really need to, don’t touch the default field order. It’s almost always correct. If you are encoding for DVD, then you should be using VBR encoding with a max bitrate of 9mbps and an average of 7 or 8 mbps. Your video is short enough that these parameters should work for you. If you are encoding for Youtube, then use the Sony AVC filetype, Youtube template. You might experiment with bumping the bitrate up here, too.
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Don’t use WMP. The free VLC Media Player is far superior to the Microsoft player.
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Vegas is hardware agnostic, but if you want to take advantage of GPU acceleration, you will need at least the minimum specified by Sony (https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro/gpuacceleration)
I avoid ATI/Radeon whenever possible because historically I have had nothing but problems with ATI drivers.
If you are running the driver software that came with on a disk the GPU, then it is surely out of date.
If you use the nVidia “auto scan”, you can get the latest released driver.
https://uk.geforce.com/driversIf you are using a late-model nVidia/GeForce video card, the 285.79-Beta driver appears to fix a lot of problems in Vegas installations.
https://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/win7-winvista-64bit-285.79-beta-driver-uk.htmlLet us know how your new system works….
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“Unmanaged Exception” is almost always a driver problem.
You didn’t say what video card you have, but if you are using a late-model nVidia/GeForce video card, the 285.79-Beta driver appears to fix a lot of problems in Vegas installations.
https://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/win7-winvista-64bit-285.79-beta-driver-uk.htmlSteve Mann
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Another YouTube downloader is KissYouTube. Just go to the URL of any video and change “https://www.youtube….” to “https://www.kissyoutube…”
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[Rennie Cluver] “. Says system low on memory”
“… but that’s not the case because I have X Gb of RAM so that shouldn’t be the problem.”
Low Memory or Out of Memory does not mean “Not enough RAM”, though adding RAM can sometimes fix a “Low Memory” waning. A “Low Memory” warning usually means that you have exceeded your commit limit. You need either a bigger page file, more physical memory, or both.
One of the biggest sources of confusion over Windows memory usage is the whole concept of virtual memory compared to physical memory. Windows organizes memory, physical and virtual, into pages. Each page is a fixed size (typically 4 KB). To make things more confusing, there’s also a page file (sometimes referred to as a paging file and dynamic RAM). Many Windows users still think of this as a swap file, a bit of disk storage that is only called into play when you absolutely run out of physical RAM. In versions of Windows starting with Vista, that is no longer the case. The most important thing to realize is that physical memory and the page file added together equal the commit limit, which is the total amount of virtual memory that all processes can reserve and commit.
Start the Task Manager, click on the “Processes” tab, then click on “Commit Size” to sort by size. This will show you which processes are memory hogs that you may be able to shut down.
In this screenshot, the two biggest memory hogs are Firefox and Thunderbird. Neither of which are needed during rendering.
All Windows since XP (and Unix/Linux for that matter) always wants to have page space. Always. Programs (including drivers and codecs) like to and are allowed to pre-allocate as much memory as they want. Even if they are never ever going to actually use it. Sometimes those programs properly deallocate memory, sometimes they don’t (resulting in “memory leak”). Sometimes, programs leave parts of themselves in allocated memory just in case you are going to run that program again. (MS Word, Excel and other Office programs are particularly adept at this). If you have no page file and a program wants to commit some for itself, your PC will crash (AKA, BSOD, or Blue Screen of Death).
Paging file configuration is in the System properties, which you can get to by typing “sysdm.cpl” into the Run dialog, clicking on the Advanced tab, clicking on the Performance Options button, clicking on the Advanced tab, and then clicking on the Change button. I would suggest a value of 1.5X the currently allocated value. The old advice of 2X or 3X your RAM is, well, old advice when a few MB of RAM was normal. The largest paging file that you can select in Windows is 4,095 megabytes (MB).
Also, Windows supports up to 16 paging files, but each must be on a separate volume, so if you have more than one internal disk drive you could try enabling a Paging File on your second hard-disk. DO NOT put a paging file on an external drive because if it’s not present when Windows boots, then Windows will crash.
For more information, see https://support.microsoft.com/kb/237740 and https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2267427
Steve Mann
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“Unmanaged Exception” errors are almost always a driver issue.
You could simply open a new project and drag each veg file to the timeline to make a single parent project.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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