GeForce GTX 550 Ti question

marcel-vossen schrieb am 14.02.2013 um 18:44 Uhr

Hi there,

Is anyone else working with a GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics card and vegas 12?

Since Sony is not allowed to give out any information or advice on which card is working with Vegas, I might as well ask my fellow users.

Does Anyone have an advice on a card in the same pricerange that works really well?

Marcel

Kommentare

ushere schrieb am 14.02.2013 um 23:57 Uhr

using one.

no problems = other than with a i7/920 gpu rendering isn't that fast.

ddm schrieb am 15.02.2013 um 03:43 Uhr

Me too and with even with an i5, gpu render is generally slower than cpu.

VidMus schrieb am 15.02.2013 um 06:17 Uhr

"no problems = other than with a i7/920 gpu rendering isn't that fast."

Same results for me when I had the 550 Ti. I sent it back and got the 560 Ti and with certain drivers it is a lot faster. I am now using the 296.10 driver which is the most reliable and fastest on my system.

My new system has a whatever the CPU number is and I cannot look it up because I am using the notebook computer to type this. It uses 35 watts while idle instead of 135 watts. I got to cut back on my light bill!!!

When this all started NVidia was the way to go because certain software would only use CUDA. I noticed that is not so much the case now and since NVidia has their focus so much on gaming AMD is looking to be maybe more the way to go now if one is to use a GPU for increased speed.

I wish Videoguys would put together a DIY system with a really powerful CPU that does not need to use a GPU at all. It would probably have a very scary price!

Jaoeso schrieb am 15.02.2013 um 06:30 Uhr

Glad you brought this up. In SVP 12 - either wont render mp2, or gets hung partially through. I was told Jan 29 update would help. Not tried as I use SVP 11 on same machine without issue. I have i7, GeForce GTX 550 . If someone has equiv or better vid card that works well with SVP - let me know.

marcel-vossen schrieb am 15.02.2013 um 12:38 Uhr

Thanks all...I have all kinds of crashes again that were introduced with Vegas 12 , version 11 was relatively stable here. It reminds me of the horror days with version 8 or 9, where I got scared to even move my mouse because Vegas crashes at almost anything....

I set the dynamic RAM preview to 0 , I think that made it work a bit longer before it crashes but not at all stable here. I too have a i7 920 CPU .

Yesterday my IE10 crashed too, seemingly had something to do with the grpahics card too, so I thought maybe the last driver update from NVidia isnt really stable either?

Marcel

OldSmoke schrieb am 15.02.2013 um 13:57 Uhr

The latest driver doesn't work for me either. I think it has been said before that driver 296.10 is one of the most stable ones. I also used 275.33 with great success. Important is a clean install of the driver. I also recently deleted the latest SetPoint software from Logitech for my wireless mouse and keyboard; it caused ghost images (left behind portions of menus and so on) and I believe also caused issues with VP11 & 12 but now everything is stable and working as it should. The 550Ti isn't powerful to really benefit from GPU acceleration. I have a 560Ti and 570 in my system because I work with three monitors. I use the 570 for GPU acceleration because testing has shown that it is a good 15-20% faster then the 560Ti. I thought of upgrading to a GTX6xx model but after reading all the issues users have with it, I dropped that idea. The GTX5xx (Fermi) series seems to be the best Nvidia GPU for accelerated preview and rendering.