New installtion guide / setup best practices for new computer

tom-c1607 wrote on 7/30/2023, 10:36 AM

I hate VEGAS. It crashes all the time. I don't want to learn another software, yet. This will decide.

Bought a new computer to just run Vegas 20 and need to know best practices on what locations to install files.

Is there a guide or post that you can point me to?

 

thanks

 

Here is the computer: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C1TFMT5W

Comes with, using as OS, Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN570 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280

Also added 2 X SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen 4 Gaming M.2

and 1 x Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 2TB PCIe NVMe 3.0

Comments

RogerS wrote on 7/30/2023, 10:58 AM

Best practice is to use media that is known to work well with VEGAS. What kind do you often use?

Answer with MediaInfo https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

File location doesn't really matter- VEGAS itself goes on the c: drive.

If the Intel CPU were K vs KF you'd benefit from fast GPU decoding.
Keep an eye on temperatures and you may need to limit power in the bios to avoid throttling. That case has a lot of glass and I wonder if that AIO is big enough to keep it cool.

I recommend the current Studio driver for the NVIDIA GPU.

tom-c1607 wrote on 7/30/2023, 11:44 AM

@RogerS it's an Intel i9-13900KF. I thought there were recommendations for putting some files, not related to media files i.e. cache, etc. files, on different drives. Thanks!

 

RogerS wrote on 7/31/2023, 12:09 AM

With the transfer rates of SSDs it doesn't matter much anymore. I do have VEGAS cache and temporary files on a second m.2. No harm in that though I can't say there's benefit either.