OT-Monitor assignment = stability issues?

Jessariah67 wrote on 12/30/2020, 6:37 AM

Hey All,

As some of you know, I have been talking about stability issue that I've had "since VP17" - which have been brought up directly, or as part of other threads looking for recommends on a new system.

Something suddenly occurred to me this morning. Early last year, I added a fifth monitor to my system. I discovered my GPU will only support 4, even though it has 5 outputs. So I had to put one of my monitors on my on-board port. In my mind, the logical choice was the monitor that I only use when working in Vegas or After Effects - in each app, I separate the timeline from the other windows, explorers, etc. In AE, I send my preview to my 43" TV, which is the same "monitor" that I use for my "external monitor" send in Vegas.

But, in Vegas, both my trimmer and preview window are on that isolated monitor - so I'm essentially running my actual playback "tabs" on a monitor that is plugged into my on-board graphics port. This new configuration would've been around the time that I also upgraded to VP17, which is where my "instability issues" began.

I kind of feel stupid, because I was never thinking about the actual hardware distribution of my setup. I never stopped to think that, even though I'm spread out to four monitors on my Nvidia card, my native preview and trimmer feeds are literally coming out of my built-in graphics port.

Or maybe I'm wrong?

I have a quick job to finish up today, and then I'm dark for the rest of the week, so I'm gonna switch two of my monitors so that everything I use for Vegas is coming out of my Nvidia card (I'll route the monitor I primarily use for web surfing out of the on-board graphics port instead).

Anyway, thought I'd share before I test it to see what other opinions on my theory might be.

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wwaag wrote on 12/30/2020, 10:28 PM

@Jessariah67

Don't know if you saw this thread, but I found a pretty neat Monitor Profile Switcher tool. Here's the link. https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/uhd-fhd-monitor-profile-switcher--125950/

If you have multiple monitor setup and you want to do switching, it can be a real time-saver.

AKA the HappyOtter at https://tools4vegas.com/. System 1: Intel i7-8700k with HD 630 graphics plus an Nvidia RTX4070 graphics card. System 2: Intel i7-3770k with HD 4000 graphics plus an AMD RX550 graphics card. System 3: Laptop. Dell Inspiron Plus 16. Intel i7-11800H, Intel Graphics. Current cameras include Panasonic FZ2500, GoPro Hero11 and Hero8 Black plus a myriad of smartPhone, pocket cameras, video cameras and film cameras going back to the original Nikon S.

Jessariah67 wrote on 12/31/2020, 5:50 AM

Even if I switched which monitor was the primary (mine actually happens to be a 21:9 LG, which I then use for timeline display, only) to launch Vegas, I would still have my trimmer & preview tabs on a monitor connected to my MB - not my Nvidia card. Unless I'm misunderstanding, I still need to "switch cards" (not primary monitors) if I'm right and still want to "look in the same place" while working.

That said, I will still look further into this, as my setup is definitely mixed - two FHD monitors, one 21:9, one 1440P and an UHD TV which I scale to FHD. The TV is newer, so the latency is not nearly as bad as my old TV was, so I might try to play around with setting that back to 4K and putting my timeline on that. I'll play around with it.

Thanks for the link, though. It's funny how some things that seem obvious are still not part of the native OS (like multiple clipboards...)

I'm just holding out for the Happy Otter "make everything work perfectly" script...😉