This is a weird one, so have patience =)
I have, on occasion, noticed that Vegas takes absolutely forever to load a project. I work almost exclusively with network drives. My workstation has a Gigabit connection to a very high-performance fileserver, and these prolonged loading times don't seem to be correlated to project size or the amount of files - it just happens. There's no congestion happening at either workstation or server.
Vegas becomes unresponsive for up to 15 minutes, then suddenly pops back to action. Disabling the "close media files when inactive" option obviously helps, but loading projects are still slow.
We did some digging with procmon and similar tools, and we noticed that during the unresponsive state, Vegas does numerous calls to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sony Creative Software\Vegas Pro\8.0\Metrics\FileIOManager
and tries to access key 10031 - which doesn't exist. Creating the key does not help. If I remove all keys, Vegas re-creates them, except for 10031 which didn't exist in the first place.
A reboot will usually resolve the issue, until a few hours / weeks later, when it reappears.
Vegas 8.0a
Windows XP Pro
I have, on occasion, noticed that Vegas takes absolutely forever to load a project. I work almost exclusively with network drives. My workstation has a Gigabit connection to a very high-performance fileserver, and these prolonged loading times don't seem to be correlated to project size or the amount of files - it just happens. There's no congestion happening at either workstation or server.
Vegas becomes unresponsive for up to 15 minutes, then suddenly pops back to action. Disabling the "close media files when inactive" option obviously helps, but loading projects are still slow.
We did some digging with procmon and similar tools, and we noticed that during the unresponsive state, Vegas does numerous calls to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sony Creative Software\Vegas Pro\8.0\Metrics\FileIOManager
and tries to access key 10031 - which doesn't exist. Creating the key does not help. If I remove all keys, Vegas re-creates them, except for 10031 which didn't exist in the first place.
A reboot will usually resolve the issue, until a few hours / weeks later, when it reappears.
Vegas 8.0a
Windows XP Pro