yesterday I installed my new Corsair 750w power supply in my Q6600/4GB RAM box. I had been having problems with both V8 and V9 in WinXP. V8 crashed while rendering complicated projects, and V9 wouldn't even open them (100% 8-bit, no 32-bit).
After lots of tinkering, I found that if I
1. un-check all boxes in V9 under View except Toolbar, Status Bar, and Video Preview (Preview set for Best, Auto); also uncheck Media Manager in Preferences, and set Dynamic Ram Preview to 50 mb & rendering threads to 1;
2. open the problem VEG in V8 and do the same to the View menu items; save the VEG with new filename for experiments in V9;
3. re-open that VEG in V9 and SUCCESS! - the first time I've ever been able to open a complicated project in V9.
I wondered if maybe the new PS made a difference, so I tried rendering out some of that project in V9 to a PicVideo 960x540 template that I had previously created. After perhaps a couple of hours, it was up to 24%. I had never seen that project render that far in V8.
I cancelled rendering at that point, and opened the V8 version of the same project in V8 (with approx. same parameters: 1 rendering thread, etc.). After it rendered for about 20 seconds, the CPU utilization dropped to zero, even though the seconds counter in the rendering window continued to advance (a typical V8 rendering crash). I had to kill it with task mananger.
I re-opened the V9 version and left it rendering overnight, with PicVideo set for 1920x1080. This morning I saw the "low memory" error message that others have mentioned in V9; and the .AVI wouldn't play in KMP player. Still, I had better rendering success in V9 than I'd ever seen in V8. I'm encouraged - maybe I can cut up my complicated projects into 10-min. segments instead of the 2-min. (or smaller) segments.
As soon as the 64-bit Windows 7 officially arrives, I'll get it and hope that the V9 b or c will finally solve all opening/rendering problems (I hope Cineform works by then in 64 bit V9 so I won't have to search for a codec that can play all my PicVid 32-bit clips).
POWER SUPPLY
I also had been having USB problems (no USB keyboard can be recognized by WindowsXP; same with my USB microphone). These problems remained unchanged by replacing the power supply.
A quirk that you might want to be aware of if you get the Corsair PS: The little 12-volt power connector that supplies the MB is wired upside down on the Corsair power supply, so that if you plug in the plug with the clip positioned so that it engages the little shoulder on the MB socket, polarity will be reversed. Don't worry, diodes protect against reversed polarity and no damage is done (but the MB won't boot).
Merely unplug it and turn it upside down, so that the clip is 180 degrees rotated from where it would need to be to engage the shoulder. If confused, note where the yellow wires are - they're positive and the blacks are negative. Your motherboard manual should show where the positive and negative voltages are to be connected; just don't presume that the motherboard manufacturer and the PS manufacturer are on the same page in this regard.
After lots of tinkering, I found that if I
1. un-check all boxes in V9 under View except Toolbar, Status Bar, and Video Preview (Preview set for Best, Auto); also uncheck Media Manager in Preferences, and set Dynamic Ram Preview to 50 mb & rendering threads to 1;
2. open the problem VEG in V8 and do the same to the View menu items; save the VEG with new filename for experiments in V9;
3. re-open that VEG in V9 and SUCCESS! - the first time I've ever been able to open a complicated project in V9.
I wondered if maybe the new PS made a difference, so I tried rendering out some of that project in V9 to a PicVideo 960x540 template that I had previously created. After perhaps a couple of hours, it was up to 24%. I had never seen that project render that far in V8.
I cancelled rendering at that point, and opened the V8 version of the same project in V8 (with approx. same parameters: 1 rendering thread, etc.). After it rendered for about 20 seconds, the CPU utilization dropped to zero, even though the seconds counter in the rendering window continued to advance (a typical V8 rendering crash). I had to kill it with task mananger.
I re-opened the V9 version and left it rendering overnight, with PicVideo set for 1920x1080. This morning I saw the "low memory" error message that others have mentioned in V9; and the .AVI wouldn't play in KMP player. Still, I had better rendering success in V9 than I'd ever seen in V8. I'm encouraged - maybe I can cut up my complicated projects into 10-min. segments instead of the 2-min. (or smaller) segments.
As soon as the 64-bit Windows 7 officially arrives, I'll get it and hope that the V9 b or c will finally solve all opening/rendering problems (I hope Cineform works by then in 64 bit V9 so I won't have to search for a codec that can play all my PicVid 32-bit clips).
POWER SUPPLY
I also had been having USB problems (no USB keyboard can be recognized by WindowsXP; same with my USB microphone). These problems remained unchanged by replacing the power supply.
A quirk that you might want to be aware of if you get the Corsair PS: The little 12-volt power connector that supplies the MB is wired upside down on the Corsair power supply, so that if you plug in the plug with the clip positioned so that it engages the little shoulder on the MB socket, polarity will be reversed. Don't worry, diodes protect against reversed polarity and no damage is done (but the MB won't boot).
Merely unplug it and turn it upside down, so that the clip is 180 degrees rotated from where it would need to be to engage the shoulder. If confused, note where the yellow wires are - they're positive and the blacks are negative. Your motherboard manual should show where the positive and negative voltages are to be connected; just don't presume that the motherboard manufacturer and the PS manufacturer are on the same page in this regard.