Memory problems in Vegas - Solved

VideoFacets wrote on 5/27/2010, 10:26 PM
After much back and forth trying to figure out what was causing my memory problems in Vegas upon rendering, I stumbled upon a solution which flat out works, so I wanted to pass it along.

Symptom is basically an error pops up stating that there's not enough memory available as I render a project. Doesn't matter to what type.

In a Sony KB article, it states to turn down the Dynamic RAM Preview amount to something like 64MB. That didn't work for me, so I set mine to zero. Voila, renders fine.

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CClub wrote on 5/28/2010, 9:25 AM
Depends on your version of Vegas... which version are you using? Once I went with V9 (and now with 9e) and upgraded to Windows 7 64bit and increased my RAM, I don't have that problem anymore.
Rick K wrote on 5/29/2010, 8:57 AM
After upgrading from XP and version 8 to Windows 7 and 9e yesterday and rendering a couple of blu ray projects without trouble I get an out of memory pop up when I try to save the project every time. Now I can't start Vegas for lack of memory. I've got 4GB and a dual quad so that seems out of whack.

I'm working the issue. Any suggestion?

tanks,
CClub wrote on 5/29/2010, 9:41 AM
The only thing I did differently was go up to 12 GB RAM, and I don't have the memory problems anymore. I'm not sure that needs to happen, as I believe others on the forum aren't getting that message with less RAM. Anyone have additional suggestions?
MTuggy wrote on 5/29/2010, 9:56 AM
Read this thread with the advice from blink3times. It works.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=696334

Mike
Rick K wrote on 5/29/2010, 5:44 PM
Yeah, that was great. Everything ran according to instructions. But the box was already checked for > 2GB.. Now what?

So I reloaded Vegas9e on my D drive instead of the C drive and it runs for the moment. Suspecting the C drive has issues but we'll see.
MTuggy wrote on 5/29/2010, 7:13 PM
Check your internal preference settings (hold "Shift") when you click on Option/Preferences. Search for 'memory' and you'll see the Memory needed by Vegas options. Be sure you select have 1024 in the 32 bit item (not 384 by default). That is the only other tweak I have done. But I am running this on a 64 bit OS and both versions (32 and 64 bit) work fine now. Since you are running XP, I am not sure if you'll get the same results. More RAM and a big page file also helped me prior to running Blink's hack.

MT