all icons turning black and computer locking up

dhill wrote on 3/31/2002, 2:13 AM
I am using VV3a with a Sony Vaio P3 1GHZ running Windows 2000. I instauled the 3.0a update and I am having a strange problem. After working for a few minutes in VV all of the icons on the tool bars and everywhere else turn black. When I drag the video preview window across the screen, it leaves a trail of preview windows. The video locks up and I have to close VV. Sometimes, when I run the curser over the icons on the tool bar, they go back to normal, but usually it doesn't help. After VV3 has been closed, my other prgrams, including task manager, lock up and act in a similar manner. Even the button that normally says "Start" for shutting down or restarting the computer goes blank! Any ideas what could be causing this?

PS The Main Concept mpeg plug-in is great!

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/31/2002, 7:58 AM
It sounds to me like your computer is "dangerously low on system resources". I see this same sort of thing when my system gets below about 10% resources free. What else do you have running? Before starting Vegas, the only programs you should have running are Explorer and Systray.
Stiffler wrote on 3/31/2002, 9:55 AM
Try running DxDiag.
Cheesehole wrote on 4/1/2002, 2:02 AM
this happened to me when I installed an ATI Radeon 8500. all icons turned black. I re-installed the OS, and as soon as I installed the ATI Radeon 8500 drivers, all my icons turned black again.

ATI told me it was a common windows bug. I then tried again, just re-installing the ATI drivers, and the problem disappeared.

so it's a little tricky to track down. I wasn't able to isolate the problem. try re-installing your video drivers. make sure your drives aren't almost out of space. also check system resources as Chienworks pointed out.
dhill wrote on 4/1/2002, 1:18 PM
Hello again. I ran the dx diag and everything was fine there. I reinstauled the video drivers last night (WinFast Gefore2 MX) and I'm still having the same problem. As far as drive space, the drive that the audio is coming off of only has about 10% free space left, but the video drive that I'm working off of has about 60GB left, so, I don't think that's the issue. I guess I'll call tech support for $20! Thank you for your replies.
dhill wrote on 4/1/2002, 3:10 PM
I downloaded the most recent video drivers from Nvidia instead of WinFast and I'm not having any problems now. I thought I had to use the drivers from WinFast since I have the WinFast GeForce2 MX. I didn't know the Nvidia driver would work, but it does. Back to work...finally!