Man where do I start...
TLDR I had smooth FAST renders, updated to 315, now the renders are a skipping freezing mess taking more than 12 hours to render a 8min video when before the update it was ~1.5hrs and vegas refuses to put nearly any load on my CPU and GPU no matter what I do.
I have a decently high power system, I use to render full edited videos (8-15mins on avg), 100s of jumping moving text events, 100s of video cuts, multiple cameras, multiple resolutions (1080p on one cam, 5.3k on the other.) color grade, FX, masking, Neat Video reduce noise v5 set to 5 frames, 5.3k 60fps, etc.. the whole nine yards, in 1.5hrs. The system load on average was ~60% CPU and ~45% GPU. If i turn off neat videos noise reduction I could render a minute of video in nearly 1min5secs. Now that I updated to 315, now its 10mins for a 1min clip with no FX, text, noise reduction, color grade, nothing. Just bare unedited footage. When i click render the program instantly freezes for maybe ~10seconds, render window disappears, Vegas flickers, then it renders maybe ~50 frames, freezes for ~10 more seconds, render window disappears, Vegas flickers 10 more seconds, ~50 more frames and so on. No matter what drive I render to nor what drive vegas is installed on. Its currently on a ~6800mb/s M.2. I've been editing with vegas since vegas 12. I know very well that none of this behavior is normal and it makes me wanna pull my hair out. Every time I've ever rendered with vegas i click render, no skips, no freezes, goes right into rendering and uses plenty of the cpu and gpu. Vegas refuses to use more than 6% CPU load and 3% GPU load at any given time. No matter what format, no matter what encoder, no matter what settings I change in preferences or internal settings windows. For the last 2 nights including all day today I've uninstalled/reinstalled 6-7 times, ive CTRL-Shift clicked vegas, I've even gone as far as going through program files, appdata local, and roaming, and as well as regedit and deleted everything that says Vegas or Magix. I reverted back to build 300, back to 315, restarted my pc who knows how many times. Updated to the latest AMD drivers (24.6.1). I've changed the classic SO4, Interlop, I've put the ram preview to 75% and 0%, I've done everything I can absolutely think of here and or find on the internet. Yet I can still currently watch back 5.3k 60FPS smooth as butter at Best(Full), skip around to 1min mark, 5 min mark, no issues. (with no fx applied). Vegas only has skips and lags when rendering.
The only changes I made from speedy smooth renders, to this skippy freezy 12+hr renders mess was the 315 update. Nothing else.
System Specs:
- Motherboard: GIGABYTE X570 AORUS PRO Wi-Fi Rev 1.1/1.2
- Processor: AMD 5900x 4.8GHz
- Memory: G.Skill Trident Z NEO Series 64GB DDR4 3600 RAM
- Graphics Card: XFX Speedster MERC310 AMD Radeon RX 7900XT
- Drive: Western Digital BLACK 2TB SN850 NVMe
Does anyone have any idea on what I may have missed here, or what happened? Let me know whatever screenshots of whatever settings you need to help you help me.