nVidia 314.22 and Vegas 12 Build 563

Guitartoys wrote on 4/21/2013, 9:14 PM
Well,

Loaded up the 563 build of Vegas, am using nVidia's 314.22 drivers.

Running Dual Hex Core Xeons and Dual GTX 580's

If I disable SLI, Vegas will load and run, but the preview screen has garbage.

If I switch to SLI, everything works.

HOWEVER,

I just tried a quick little snippet in rendering.

With GPU is almost twice as long as with out.

Any ideas?

Peace

Michael

Win 7 x64 - eVGA SR-2 MB, Dual Xeon X5690 Hex Core, 12GB RAM, Four OCZ SSD in RAID 0, 2 WD Black 2TB in RAID 5 on LSI SAS 9265-8i RAID controller. Dual GTX 580 with three 23" ASUS 3-D capable displays. All water cooled

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ushere wrote on 4/22/2013, 2:51 AM
could be that your gpu is more effective than your 580......
OldSmoke wrote on 4/22/2013, 8:38 AM
I run 2x GTX570 and until today there is no better driver then 296.10 for the 5xx series. I tried every driver after that, including 314.22 and went back to 296.10. I have Ram Preview set at 200 and I get very fast rendering times with both GPUs utilized equally. However, it very much depends on the codec, h.264 uses both GPUs where else DNxHD uses only one. So I guess there will be codecs where your dual Xeons are still faster then the 2 GTX580.

Edit:
I also noticed that in SLI mode the render times for h.264 where longer then without SLI. I left the SLI bridge on but disabled SLI in the Nvidia Control Panel. This way you can also connect up to 4 monitors to your system.

Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
Hard drives: System Samsung 970Pro NVME, AV-Projects 1TB (4x Intel P7600 512GB VROC), 4x 2.5" Hotswap bays, 1x 3.5" Hotswap Bay, 1x LG BluRay Burner

PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

Fenris_Yeager wrote on 4/22/2013, 2:06 PM
Hi,

Few days ago, I've installed latest Nvidia drivers 314.22. Everything was fine until i started any render. First i've noticed a dramatic slowdown of Vegas 12 performance at GPU rendering, after that came unstability of rendering process (at random precentage of rendered clip). Vegas 12 started also to crash randomly at rendering, clip move, edit, playback etc.

I have reverted to NVidia 296.10 drivers, and all my problems are gone.
On older NVidia drivers, I've noticed improvement of GPU rendering.

- 15 minutes AVC/ACC (1080p, 25fps) clip on NVidia 314.22, took about 45-50 minutes (crashed randomly few times before completed)
- 15 minutes AVC/ACC (1080p, 25fps) clip on NVidia 296.10, took about 30-35 minutes (100% rendered, without any crash!)

This maybe aren't impressive results (my machine is a bit old now) but they showed me clearly that something's wrong with latest Nvidia drivers. I hope this would be helpfull.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-296.10-whql-driver.html

Best regards,
Fen.
Guitartoys wrote on 4/24/2013, 10:47 AM
Sorry, been on a ton of business travel.

I will try to roll back to 296.10 and see what happens.

It's just crap that Sony touts GPU rendering for performance, and consistently encounters the issue.

While one may also say that nVidia is at fault, which I would tend to agree, if they are going to endorse their GPUs to perform tasks such as these, and Sony goes to the effort to support it, nVidia should step up and work with them to at least ensure their products work well together.

Peace.

Michael
JJKizak wrote on 4/24/2013, 11:34 AM
It is also amazing that you never see this written up as being corrected by Sony
"to fix a compatibility problem with Nvida driver such and such".
JJK
dingus wrote on 4/24/2013, 6:05 PM
FWIW: Beta 320.00 has just been released.