More GPU weirdness: AMD R9 290x

dxdy wrote on 3/1/2015, 5:12 PM

I had to make some DVDs for one of the high school's productions. My new edit box is an i7-5960 with AMD R9 290x GPU.

Source files were Canon MXF from a Canon XF300, 50 Mb/second, 4:2:2.
Vegas 13 Main Concept MPG2 renders crashed ("Vegas has stopped working") on 4 of the 10 files.

Since it been frequently mentioned here that MC MPG2 doesn't work with R9 290 GPUs, I didn't think about turning off GPU until I was really pulling the last of my hair out. Turned it off, restarted Vegas, MC rendered like a champ for all 10 files.

Even if it doesn't get any functional use out of the R9, it must still be touching it some way or another.

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Stringer wrote on 3/1/2015, 6:04 PM

I also have a 5960 + R9 290X

MC .MP4 renders do not use R9 290X but MPEG-2 ( *.mpg ) definitely does with Vegas V12....

Super fast vs CPU only..

You may have some other issue. I have had some problems with some newer AMD drivers, but all is OK with version 14.12 Omega

astar wrote on 3/2/2015, 10:03 PM

I love this...."Canon's newly developed MPEG-2 4:2:2 codec--to record Full HD video to affordable Compact Flash cards."

You might try and convert some of your footage to XDCAM 422 mxf, and see if that works better on your timeline. I downloaded some footage from this "new codec," and it looks suspiciously like XDCAM 422 to mediainfo. There might be something with the file structure. My conspiracy is that Canon inked a deal with Sony to private label an existing codec technology under Canon's brand name.

I would also verify that your memory bandwidth is what your suppose to be getting, and the GPU is interfacing at full spec.

See if you are getting Luxrender specs on par for your system, if you are not then there might be something up with your configuration.