My vegas is making my pc turn into a black screen

murilosvaz wrote on 8/22/2025, 1:49 PM

I recently bought Vegas Pro 22 and I’ve been having several problems.

First, when I’m editing a video, sometimes the preview and the program don’t cooperate. The preview may turn black and not come back, or Vegas might just crash. But the real problem is that sometimes the program closes by itself and deletes my project. If autosave had been disabled, I probably would’ve lost around 20 hours of work.

Now, it’s even worse—sometimes the program causes both of my monitors to turn off, and my PC doesn’t recover unless I restart it.

Just to be clear, my hardware is not the issue. Here are my specs:

Ryzen 5 5500

Radeon RX 6600

16 GB RAM

1 TB NVMe SSD

100 GB SSD (Windows is installed here)

1 TB HDD

650W Bronze-rated PSU

I have no idea what’s going on. Has anyone experienced something similar or found a solution?

Comments

john_dennis wrote on 8/22/2025, 2:36 PM

@murilosvaz Show what happened to your system.

Windows Reliability History https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/not-responding--142806/#ca893148

RogerS wrote on 8/22/2025, 10:44 PM

Just to confirm, is the 650W PSU enough to cover the GPU and CPU under load, including transient spikes? Did you build this system?

Reyfox wrote on 8/23/2025, 6:58 AM

Hardware could be the issue or not. It could be a Windows issue. It could be software issue. I would not rule out anything personally. What build of Vegas Pro are you using?

Has this always been the issue from day "1"? Have you tried reseating your GPU and making sure all the power connects are secure? When was the last time you cleaned the inside of your PC including the power supply? Made sure the CPU cooler is free from dust? Is this a pre-build (as asked above), if it's a DIY, when was the last time you cleaned and applied new good thermal paste to the CPU? Does the computer working "normally" when not video editing? Do you hear an increase in fan speed while editing? All this is hardware related.

When editing, do you do incremental saves? Everyone who edits, should. Unless you like having to duplicate hours of work if something happens. Vegas Pro has a keyboard shortcut to do just that. As for the .VEG file being deleted in a crash, not sure on this. Is the backup file there in the directory?

Have you RESET Vegas Pro?

@RogerS if that is a true 650w bronze, that is more than enough to run the OP's hardware under load.

Have you

Dexcon wrote on 8/23/2025, 7:04 AM

1 TB NVMe SSD

100 GB SSD (Windows is installed here)

1 TB HDD

Please clarify if the 100 GB SSD is the C drive as well as whether or not Vegas Pro is installed on that drive or one of the other drives?

RogerS wrote on 8/24/2025, 12:58 AM

if that is a true 650w bronze, that is more than enough to run the OP's hardware under load

I haven't built an AMD system but with NVIDIA / Intel if you add a 1.5x safety margin for the GPU max wattage it's on the low side. Just thought it's worth putting the parts through PCParts picker to rule out an issue like this.

Reyfox wrote on 8/24/2025, 1:45 PM

I've been building AMD PC's for decades, including my own. If the power supply (and they are not all created equal) is a reliable brand and it does meet the Bronze rating, what he has in his computer is fine. His CPU doesn't draw much power and his GPU will even run in a system with a good 450w power supply.

Running his parts through Newegg Power Supply Calculator, a "real" 500w will work