J-K-L Crashing?

jimsch wrote on 5/20/2012, 12:45 PM
I am using VP683 and am having crashes periodically after making an adjustment to a keyframe or moving a clip on the timeline or deleting an effect and then quickly press "J or K or L' to resume editing.
I have not been able as of yet to pin down exactly what causes the crash other than to say it seems to happen if I press the shuttle keys "J,K or L" to quickly after making an adjustment. It seems as though Vegas is making corrections to its "edit table" and then shuts down because I have asked it to do something too soon for it to finish writing.
It also seems to occur after I have been editing for a while and the RAM has been used.
Possible RAM release issue?
The fault address in the crash details are always the same - 0X00000018017594.
(I have no idea what that means.)
Anyone else noticing this behavior?
I am using track grouping and multi-track on these projects.
Happens in V10-64bit as well. W7 & Vista.
I had to set my Veg set to back-up every 30 secs to minimize my headaches.
Just curious to hear some responses and maybe help find a solution.
I'll gladly answer questions to try and help.

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/20/2012, 4:28 PM
I haven't had this happen since Vegas 6, but that was because i did find what was causing my issues: using DirectX for the Vegas audio instead of the default (wave mapper?). I had a 5.1 setup and DX supported 5.1, but I lost the JKL keys.

Since I lost my 5.1 setup I have had no issues with running with the default Vegas audio driver.
jimsch wrote on 5/21/2012, 3:10 PM
Found It!!

Combination of veg file on same drive as media files - never do this again!
and
Dyeing HDD. It's on its last legs. Took 3 hours to transfer 90gb to a new drive.

Project on a new HDD and veg on a different drive and all is good again.
jimsch wrote on 5/22/2012, 1:15 PM
I spoke too soon. It's back!!
Different drive for clips and Veg.
Ran Memtest86 - good.

Work for a few minutes previewing the timeline, render a short clip (< 1 min.) for an added effect and drop rendered file on timeline, press "L" and crash.

Move a clip around on the timeline that hasn't been played for a while, "L", crash.

Running out of ideas.

VMP wrote on 5/22/2012, 5:43 PM
Like TheHappyFriar mentioned, changing the audio device has even prevented 'blue screen of death' for my PC.

The crashes usually occurred when hitting 'enter' pause/play quickly behind a cursor click on the timeline.

Source files located on external 'complicated' locations can also cause this.

Also image files with very high resolution 4K+ and audio files with very low quality can cause crashes and ‘red’ event colors on the timeline.

Some months ago my PC just shut down during renders (very scary when that happens!), that was caused by the CPU overheating, weird though because it only happened with H264 renders.

I have cleaned and re-pasted the CPU on the motherboard and fitted two extra large fans for cooling I control the fanspeed with my Asus program when required. Sins then the PC is fine.
jimsch wrote on 5/22/2012, 6:16 PM
Thanks for the input Happy Friar and VMP.

Audio is set for Microsoft Sound Mapper.

Project files on are HDD connected to mother board. Sata3

Image files may be a possibility. I normally use HDV files. I had started rendering small subclips in mxf codec and placing them back on the timeline to avoid loss from codec . On another thread that I am currently on, someone else is also having the same type of problem and they are working with mxf files. As I think about it, it could be that this all started about the time I started using mxf renders. I'm going to try a different codec and see how things go.

CPU temps are low and cooler is in good shape.

I'll let you know how non-mxf works out.
jimsch wrote on 5/25/2012, 8:36 PM
Updated to Nvidia 301.42 and have not had a crash for several hours now!!!

I'll keep going and see how it works out.