Display Driver Crashes Black Screen. "Vegas has Stopped Working"

LongIslander wrote on 11/19/2017, 10:32 AM

Assuming this crash is directly related to the new Windows Fall Creator Update because this was a non issue until now. When I edit anything in the timeline eventually the "Vegas Has Stopped working" message will pop up and the screen will just go black. (display crashes) I've tried disabling my GTX 1080 and using Microsoft basic display driver which yielded the same results. When the display driver crashes on the GTX 1080 the screen will not recover (computer stays on operating system running fine but screen stays black). When using microsofts basic display driver the screen will go black when Vegas crashes but the system IS able to recover. Hoping to see a patch/fix from Magix/Microsoft?

Additonally all other programs are working PERFECT. Playing Star Wars battlefront 2 at 4K and no crashes.

Just VEGAS : (

Additionally all drivers up to date. etc etc.

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LongIslander wrote on 11/19/2017, 12:10 PM

Reset Program to defaults using the my 1080 again and all seems well.... weird..

LongIslander wrote on 12/4/2017, 3:14 AM

Update! Finally figured out why my display driver crashes. Apparently Vegas Pro doesn't play nice when you have the system page file turned OFF. It needs to be on. Havent had 1 crash since!

set wrote on 12/4/2017, 4:18 AM

Ok, how to do it? Not everyone knows how to....

OldSmoke wrote on 12/4/2017, 9:41 AM

Ok, how to do it? Not everyone knows how to....

If you don't know how to enable it you most likely don't know how to disable it either as it is ON by default.

OldSmoke wrote on 12/4/2017, 9:42 AM

Update! Finally figured out why my display driver crashes. Apparently Vegas Pro doesn't play nice when you have the system page file turned OFF. It needs to be on. Havent had 1 crash since!

How big is your system memory?

LongIslander wrote on 12/4/2017, 11:55 AM

16 gigs

set wrote on 12/4/2017, 4:51 PM

If you don't know how to enable it you most likely don't know how to disable it either as it is ON by default.

Yes... I leave it to Windows as it is... I never touched that settings...

Currently 'Automatically manage paging file size for all drives'

https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-move-page-file-in-windows-10-to-another-disk/

NickHope wrote on 12/5/2017, 12:24 AM

In the old days, one of the standard tweaks for an NLE system was to create a fixed-size paging file twice the size of your RAM. I did that for years with XP. Some others even had a dedicated hard drive just for a page file. But I haven't touched it since moving from XP, mainly because I've got much more RAM, my system drive is now my fastest (cuz it's SSD), and (maybe foolishly) I trust the system to be better at managing memory than in the past. I don't know why anyone would completely disable the page file. That just means you're prone to hitting a brick wall when RAM runs out.

billvo wrote on 12/13/2017, 10:04 AM

In the past few days, I reinstalled Windows 10 on an SSD and installed Vegas 15 for the first time. I had been using V14. Today, Vegas has been crashing regularly while editing audio. In fact, it crashed on its own while I was using my browser. This has happened twice this morning. It's almost as if it's on a timer.

There used to be a problem with crashing when GPU acceleration is turned on. I have a Geforce 660TI that has served me well for quite a while with versions of Vegas up to 14. Vegas used to crash on me regularly when GPU acceleration was on. It would also crash if I had the video preview window open when I was only editing audio. Today, I have GPU accel off and the video preview is off. And yet it's crashing regularly.

I've never had to deal with page file before. Seems kinda old school. It's presently on and managed by Windows.

Now I'm inclined to install 14 to see if it too is having a problem on this new system.

john_dennis wrote on 12/13/2017, 10:42 AM

Billvo, you should start you own thread. Spend some time with this list.