MS platinum 17 build 223 does not release process on exit win 10 20H2

Jim-Rollinson wrote on 9/14/2021, 9:51 AM

Both build 203 and 223 have this problem. When you exit the program, it remains running in task manager. If I open and close it three times, I will have three instances still running, each taking up approx 25% cpu. I've just seen another post describing 'low memory error', I'm assuming that they have the same memory leak problem.

Jim

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EricLNZ wrote on 9/14/2021, 6:47 PM

Yes a similar situation occasionally happens to me when I try to open VMS, having previously had it open earlier. It hangs on one of the start up screens so I have to go into Task Manager to end the existing process. The problem has been around for a while and isn't new, at least to me, in just the recent builds.

Vegas Movie Studio is now a "retired" product so don't expect any further development work on it. We will just have to live with the problem. A minor irritation, not a disaster.

FayFen wrote on 9/15/2021, 4:44 AM

I suggested way back to run VMS thru bat file that will kill the process

This is mine,

start /high MovieStudioPlatinum160.exe
TITLE Movie Studio Platinum
pause
TASKKILL /IM MovieStudioPlatinum160.exe /F

- Edit that in notepad to VMS17,

-Save as .bat file in VMS17 folder

-Shortcut it to desktop.

-Use it.

Jim-Rollinson wrote on 9/15/2021, 8:40 AM

Thank you FeyFen, I shall copy that and give it a try.

Eric, it's minor now I know whats happening, but given that the new 'version' is a completely different product and that many people probably won't switch to it, I do think they ought to make this one final fix. It's bad programming to have a leak like this, and we shouldn't have to use a bodge to get around it. I don't hold up any hopes, though.

Thank you all for helping.

Jim