Compatibility of Vegas Pro 18 (edit) with MS Window 11

bluesky wrote on 2/17/2022, 10:24 PM

A couple of days, I purchased a new PC with MS Window 11. Then, I installed my Vegas Pro 18 which I purchased earlier. I successfully downloaded the file and installed. And I found 'Vegas Pro app icon on my PC. I tried many times to open the Vegase Pro, but it did not open. For your reference, I keep using my Vegas Pro on my old PC.

What do you think is the Problem? Problem related with Window 11? Or, some restriction of using 2 copies of Vegas Pro? One copy on my old PC and Another on my new PC?

I need your help!!

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Dexcon wrote on 2/17/2022, 10:50 PM

I've got Vegas Pro 18 on a laptop which has been upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11, and Vegas Pro 18 mostly opens without a problem. But on occasion when it doesn't open, its necessary to go to the Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and under the Processes tab highlight and hit the End Process button for any Vegas Pro entries listed.

Also, use the forum's search facility using keywords like 'Vegas Pro 18 Windows 11' and there are a few posts by some experiencing difficulties but others reporting that they're not having any problems.

A purchased Vegas Pro 18 (i.e. not subscription) can be activated on 2 separate computers at the same time.. I doubt that this is the problem because the activation process wouldn't stop Vegas Pro from opening from the icon. But check the activations under My Products on your MAGIX My Account and if there is more than 1 activation listed, de-activate one of the activations - this can only be done once per month.

Cameras: Sony FDR-AX100E; GoPro Hero 11 Black Creator Edition

Installed: Vegas Pro 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22, HitFilm Pro 2021.3, DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0.3, BCC 2025, Mocha Pro 2025.0, NBFX TotalFX 7, Neat NR, DVD Architect 6.0, MAGIX Travel Maps, Sound Forge Pro 16, SpectraLayers Pro 11, iZotope RX11 Advanced and many other iZ plugins, Vegasaur 4.0

Windows 11

Dell Alienware Aurora 11:

10th Gen Intel i9 10900KF - 10 cores (20 threads) - 3.7 to 5.3 GHz

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB GDDR6 - liquid cooled

64GB RAM - Dual Channel HyperX FURY DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz

C drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD

D: drive: 4TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD (used for media for editing current projects)

E: drive: 2TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD

F: drive: 6TB WD 7200 rpm Black HDD 3.5"

Dell Ultrasharp 32" 4K Color Calibrated Monitor

 

LAPTOP:

Dell Inspiron 5310 EVO 13.3"

i5-11320H CPU

C Drive: 1TB Corsair Gen4 NVMe M.2 2230 SSD (upgraded from the original 500 GB SSD)

Monitor is 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 2/19/2022, 11:51 AM

Fwiw, I experience the issue @Dexcon describes on Win10 machines on occasion with all versions of Vegas... mostly after I have not run that version for a number of weeks. Sometimes, I wait a while and Vegas eventually fires up but I usually just kill it in Task Manager and it comes up right away on the next try.

@bluesky Make sure your Vegas 18 is the latest update... build 527. If you haven't already, make sure your Internet connect works on the new pc and go to the support site of your pc maker to make sure you have all their latest drivers and firmware updates. Also suggest you get fully updated with Win11 including dot-NET. Back to Vegas, try holding down the shift key while clicking on the Vegas startup icon and do a Vegas reset. If none of that helps, I'd try a Vegas uninstall and reinstall.

bluesky wrote on 2/19/2022, 5:23 PM

I got the problem solved. Thank Dexcon and Howard for your kind information. Thank you.

😁

walter-i. wrote on 2/20/2022, 2:00 AM

@bluesky
What exactly helped you?
We are a user-user forum here - so not a one-way street - someone else might benefit from your workaround as well.