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tserface wrote on 2/26/2002, 12:30 AM
I have an AMD T-Bird system and it kicks my Pentium system into a hat for doing video. I haven't had one single problem since building this new computer and I had all sorts of problems with my old computer. To be fair my old problems could have been the video card, hard drives, whatever, but the point is that the new one definitely works great.

Tom
David_DSS wrote on 2/26/2002, 4:08 AM
Myth. I'm using VV3 with AMD Athlon 1.4GHz. Rock solid. No problems. And this is on on a motherboard with the VIA chipset that can be finicky.
PeterMac wrote on 2/26/2002, 7:02 AM
I'm using an AMD Thunderball system, which *did* have problems with Premiere, but has absolutely none with Vegas.

-Pete
vitamin_D wrote on 2/26/2002, 8:39 AM
Myth. I've used Vegas on bot ha single and dual processor AMD setup with no hiccups whatsoever.

- jim
wvg wrote on 2/26/2002, 9:39 AM
Not necessarily a myth. When I originally built my AMD system from the ground up every application worked fine...except for Video Factory. It locked up constantly every time I tired to render anything and was the ONLY appliation out of several dozen that did hang. See my postings in that forum of over a year ago.

I asked, begged, pleaded, for "help" from all sources, none was forcoming. I resolved it myself by tweaking the speed of my AMD CPU from the default 1200 Mhz down to 1166 Mhz. That did it, and Video Factory and Vegas Video have been rock solid ever since. I have seen similar situations reported by other people elsewhere with different "problem" applications. Of course that's true with Intel based systems too.

Just offered this in contrast to others posting a blanket opinion. Computer systems are too complex with an almost limitless range of combinations of hardware/software to totally rule out some application or piece of hardware running amok under a set range of conditions. The chances you'll have no trouble are probably better than 99%. Just remember Murphy's law. :-)
DougHamm wrote on 2/26/2002, 9:46 AM
AMD, no problemo. VIA, a few problems to be noted.

Particularly PCI arbitration is a little wonky and cause problems with certain configurations; install VIA drivers sparingly, particularly as XP has default VIA drivers which work well out of the box. AND do a search on VIAHardware.com for George Breese's PCI Latency patch, which when applied brings most AMD/VIA combinations into a league of their own as far as performance goes. I've got a KT266A-based system that really flies with XP, with exception of a couple of insignificant firewire issues that I can't necessarily blame on AMD or VIA - most likely Microsoft magic of some sort.

-Doug
bjornkn wrote on 2/26/2002, 12:52 PM
My Athlon 1.33GHz with VIA chipset also works fine with Vegas Video - I think.
But I'm having problems with PNG image sequences giving lots of black frames randomly (and never in the same locations). I don't know if this is related to AMD or anything else, but this seems to be an unknown problem to all other Vegas users?
falz wrote on 2/26/2002, 1:19 PM
..And since no one chimed in with a "old" athlon system, it works great on that. I have a K7M with a pre-thunderbird slot 1 athlon, 650mhz. it rocks.