I am running on a totally new machine. I have posted my system specs on my profile. Most of it is meaningless to me still, but maybe you will understand it when you read it.

I am an old school Steenbeck style editor trying to find my way into the 21st century. I was running a trial copy of Vegas on a $150 desktop I got from a local University's surplus sale, and loved it despite the fact that the desktop did not even meet the minimum system requirements.

So I made the jump to the system I have posted on my profile. Dual Quad Core, very nice.

The one thing I did not expect to have problems with on the new workstation was the Preview Window. I thought that my previews for the most part would be very clear, and now even with the most rudimentary of projects, my Preview is very choppy. Almost worse than the $150 desktop!!

So, I have red a BUNCH here in the forum regarding preview quality and some of it is meaningless to me. I am just hoping to narrow down a short list of possible configuration issues I might look at in order maximize the preview quality.

So far most of my experimentation has been with varying the value of "Dynamic RAM Preview max". Setting it too high adversely affected my renders. Setting it too low gives me a very choppy preview.

If anyone can just point to a post that they think might be particularly helpful, I would appreciate it. Or a short checklist of things I should look at.

Many thanks!