Does GPU acceleration ever work at all, for anyone with any card?!

marcel-vossen wrote on 11/26/2017, 10:44 AM

Hi there,

It seems that turning on the GPU acceleration ALWAYS causes trouble of some kind, which is very annoying since it is turned on by default. I have been using Vegas since version 8 and I can't remember EVER being able to turn this feature on, I tried it with several different PC's with totally different hardware types ans graphic cards and it is VERY annoying, especially since Sony (and probably Magix too?) would never ever give any advice on graphic cards, which ones were tested and have been known to work with their software... At the moment I have a pretty expensive Asus ROG STRIX-RX480-O8G-GAMING card but when I turn on the GPU acceleration Vegas crashes at random points in the timeline, but that also happened with several different Geforce cards I owned over time. So my question is: Does this EVER work at all, and if so, which card should one use then? Does anyone have a list with compatible cards, if not, why is it not available I wonder?

And why is it turned on by default after installing the software, it seems that the chances of Vegas working 100% are pretty limited that way, and I always have to remember to turn this 'feature' off before I can work with a new version.

Regards,

Marcel

Comments

aboammar wrote on 11/26/2017, 11:11 AM

Its working fine with my system.

PK-Bristol wrote on 11/26/2017, 1:43 PM

I'm using RX 480 (8GB), it works fine.

OldSmoke wrote on 11/26/2017, 2:31 PM

It works fine here too aside from the view FX plugins that have issues. If I use my GTX580 than I don’t have an issue at all and also can render with MC AVC and CUDA. However, I don’t use VP14, hate the icons and I don’t have VP15 which just isn’t ready for prime time looking at the long list of known issues and other complaints.

aboammar wrote on 11/26/2017, 4:37 PM

It works fine here too aside from the view FX plugins that have issues. If I use my GTX580 than I don’t have an issue at all and also can render with MC AVC and CUDA. However, I don’t use VP14, hate the icons and I don’t have VP15 which just isn’t ready for prime time looking at the long list of known issues and other complaints.

I jumped from Vegas Pro 13 to Vegas Pro 15 and I am very happy so far, so I do not know what do you mean that it is not ready for prime time!

OldSmoke wrote on 11/27/2017, 6:37 AM

It works fine here too aside from the view FX plugins that have issues. If I use my GTX580 than I don’t have an issue at all and also can render with MC AVC and CUDA. However, I don’t use VP14, hate the icons and I don’t have VP15 which just isn’t ready for prime time looking at the long list of known issues and other complaints.

I jumped from Vegas Pro 13 to Vegas Pro 15 and I am very happy so far, so I do not know what do you mean that it is not ready for prime time!

This is why. I am on Sony Vegas Pro 13 and it has be far less issues on my system than Magix VP15, by far. I have VP14 too but absolutely hate the monochrome icons and it's just sitting there on my PC never to be used. The playback engine in VP15 is as fast SVP13 and AMD's VEC is not supported either.

marcel-vossen wrote on 11/28/2017, 4:10 AM

It works fine here too aside from the view FX plugins that have issues. If I use my GTX580 than I don’t have an issue at all and also can render with MC AVC and CUDA. However, I don’t use VP14, hate the icons and I don’t have VP15 which just isn’t ready for prime time looking at the long list of known issues and other complaints.

I jumped from Vegas Pro 13 to Vegas Pro 15 and I am very happy so far, so I do not know what do you mean that it is not ready for prime time!

I must agree with Oldsmoke, VP15 is very slow with everything I do, and I understood that I'm not the only one experiencing that. Opening windows (FX, text editing etc) within the program always takes a few seconds even on my very fast machine, and if you are doing subtitles the whole day like I am doing right now, this gets very annoying, everything lags so I think they have to fix this at Magix, it's a joke. I liked working in VP14 more to be honest.

Wolfgang S. wrote on 11/28/2017, 6:56 AM

Does this EVER work at all, and if so, which card should one use then? Does anyone have a list with compatible cards, if not, why is it not available I wonder?

Be aware that it depends on the footage too! And that it works in the Background.

I use my AMD R9 390X 8GB ram, and it Supports in a great way may XAVC-I and ProRes footage in the Playback. Disable the Card - and I see a clear difference!

D7K wrote on 11/28/2017, 10:35 AM

I spent a good part of yesterday and yes it does work (I compared QSV and the RX480 as well as no GPU), HERE in this post

Remember if you are using QSV you must use the Magix AVC/ACC codec. The RX480 does well with any codec.