[Tim Mcdonnell]

There appears to be no known silver bullet as to what Vegas 8.0 is dependent on for smooth preview. Video and sound play fine for maybe 30 frames, then a hiccup lock, then again, then again….

Here’s a recap of what made no difference whatsoever for future reference.

1. Re-installing Vegas 8.0c (several times between “cures”)
2. Scan Disk, Defrag, anything to with Anti Virus
3. Recovery Console – chkdsk /r
4. Memory testing (BSOD was ‘Unmountable Volume’)
5. .NET cleanup and re-install .Net 3.5
6. Re-Installing DirectX 9.0c
7. Re-installing NVidia driver
8. sfc /scannow to check Windows files

At this stage, we’re 6 miles past “to hell with this” and will install fresh XP Pro soon.

Tim aka Timbre4
Vegas 8.0 / ACID 7.0 / SF 8.0 / 9.0

[Tim Mcdonnell]

Update: Render fine afterall, just preview choppy

Cleaned off .net with a cleanup tool, installed .net 3.5 fresh with service pack updates. No change.

Identified that he was running DirectX 9.0c; downloaded and installed as fresh. No change.

Conclusion: Something is still wrong with WIN XP that repair from Recovery Console didn’t fix.

Before we go through with this PITA operation, can anyone here knowledgeably comment on DLLs, codecs, etc. that Vegas 8.0 requires and could be replaced more easily than a WIN XP re-install???

Thanks in advance.

Tim aka Timbre4
Vegas 8.0 / ACID 7.0 / SF 8.0 / 9.0

[Tim Mcdonnell]

Thanks for the suggestion. I pulled a post-BLUESCREEN test rendering over to my PC and it indeed plays fine.

Hard drive is about a year old and no Dell Motitoring warnings about being out of spec as I’ve seen when HDs fail on these boxes.

Most everything on his PC behaves okay, except for Vegas preview chop and FRAPS recording frame rate in DirectX Train Simulator…

Tim aka Timbre4
Vegas 8.0 / ACID 7.0 / SF 8.0 / 9.0