...but what? For various reasons, I decided to upgraded my motherboard, and in the process, had the highly enjoyable exercise of doing a complete reinstall of Win XP Pro and various applications thereafter - including Vegas 6, of course. Normally, reinstalls are a good thing - you know - fresh start and all, but something is askew in my case.
The problem: After ignoring Vegas for about a month, and happily running other apps, I decided to edit something I did prior to the surgical procedure. To my astonishment, things that previewed so smoothly before were now sputtering, stuttering, hacking, coughing - you name it - it was as if the content on the timeline were being streamed from a floppy drive! I did notice that the hard drive seemed to working abnormally hard, which likely explained the behavior, so I checked its DMA setting and it was UDMA 5 - nothing strange about that. Maybe it was 6.0c, so I reinstalled Vegas 6.0a, but that didn't help. I have a hard time blaming the motherboard - it's an ASUS afterall, which ceratinly seemed like a step up from the Gigabyte I was using - but I could be wrong. I'm at a loss for answers. Any ideas?
The problem: After ignoring Vegas for about a month, and happily running other apps, I decided to edit something I did prior to the surgical procedure. To my astonishment, things that previewed so smoothly before were now sputtering, stuttering, hacking, coughing - you name it - it was as if the content on the timeline were being streamed from a floppy drive! I did notice that the hard drive seemed to working abnormally hard, which likely explained the behavior, so I checked its DMA setting and it was UDMA 5 - nothing strange about that. Maybe it was 6.0c, so I reinstalled Vegas 6.0a, but that didn't help. I have a hard time blaming the motherboard - it's an ASUS afterall, which ceratinly seemed like a step up from the Gigabyte I was using - but I could be wrong. I'm at a loss for answers. Any ideas?