Good performance so far on new build

larry-peter wrote on 9/15/2012, 10:17 AM
I just wanted to report that in over a week of testing V11 is quite stable (as far as crashes, non-response) on my new system:
Asus P9X79Pro MB
i7 3930k w/Antec H20 cooler
16 gig GSkill RAM
EVGA GTX 560ti 448 cores 1.2 G RAM (301.42 driver)
Win 7 SP1
no overclocking.

I purposely stayed away from the more bleeding edge video cards in favor of one that seemed to work well with many users in the past, and also didn't think that with the 3930 I'd be getting many hits on GPU accel.

V11 was the first software installed (as Administrator, and no NewBlue Titler) on the clean system, then added Quicktime, Cineform codecs, Avid LE codecs and Lagarith.
Running without compatibility mode, w/GPU accel on.

No crashes w/ multiple OFX plugins so far, even in large timelines w/ CC and Color Curves on almost every clip.

No surprise that there's been no success w/MC AVC renders with GPU assist on the templates I've tried.
Stabilization appears to work (so far) in the 32 bit build. 64 stabilization is still totally unusable - a roller coaster ride on acid. 64 bit version in general is still worrisome. Several long periods of non-response that eventually became responsive again and a very few crashes on exit. 32 has felt like a rock.

After seeing Vegas stability, loaded Edius trial, PPro, AE 5.5 and Resolve. Vegas still stable. Have not tested every plugin because I use few other than color correction plugs and Deshaker script. I'm sure the real issues still remain, but for my work, which is mainly cuts and dissolve on broadcast spots and long-form pieces with AVCHD media, the performance is quite comforting so far.

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john_dennis wrote on 9/15/2012, 10:42 AM
Good for you!
larry-peter wrote on 9/15/2012, 4:56 PM
I appreciate the good wishes, John. My main reason for posting is to try to document as many variables as possible during installation and hopefully help others. In the system listed in my specs It took a good bit of registry cleaning, removing and reinstalling previous Vegas versions and codecs to get it running smoothly. It eventually was very stable (i.e. crashes and non-responsive states - the well documented bugs are still there). I've always thought some users' issues are coming from other installed software (some of mine were) and this was my first chance to install Vegas on a clean system as first app and see if there was a difference in performance as other software and codecs were added.