Pagefile use way up with Vegas 6? Try reinstalling. Worked for me.

busterkeaton wrote on 4/25/2005, 12:36 AM

EDIT see last post.

Is anybody else experiencing this?

I just ran a test. I was having trouble with a project in Vegas 6. Very, simple project. One track of video and one track of text above it. Every so often text appeared onscreen and I key framed the text to scroll across the bottom of the screen. I used two Push transitions. My computer was absolutely choking on this project.

So I created a similiar project in Vegas 5 and previewed it. On Good>Full it hit 29.97 except when the titles or transition occurred and then went back to 29.97 very quickly when it was just DV again. I saved the project then opened it in Vegas 6 saved it as different veg file and reopened it. My pagefile usage starts climbing until it is a gig higher than it was with Vegas 6, my cpu is is hitting 50% or more previewing a simple project. It's at 40% doing just DV! Vegas is crawling along, struggling to hit 20fps on the DV parts.
When I exit Vegas my computer is very sluggish for like a minute. Then finally my pagefile/cpu drop and it gets responsive again.

I don't know if I have a bad install or something. I just uninstalled Vegas 6 and downloaded it again. I will try again tomorrow.

By the way, I opened Vegas 5 and found this little nifty error:

The audio plug-in "Sony Track Noise Gate" on track #3 was not found or did not load properly.
The audio plug-in "Sony Track EQ" on track #3 was not found or did not load properly.
The audio plug-in "Sony Track Compressor" on track #3 was not found or did not load properly.
EDIT. These came back after I installed Vegas 6, but this might be a bug. Has anyone had this happen before where uninstalled one version of Vegas affected another?

Comments

jorgecoreano wrote on 4/25/2005, 2:41 AM

Same here...

And the process vsmon.exe starts to grow from 5100KB that uses at starting session to 125000KB (!) when i close V6... that´s really bad...

craftech wrote on 4/25/2005, 5:11 AM

Although I am using Vegas 4 with W98SE and am very happy with that setup I do know how you can get XP to adjust the pagefile size automatically.
Try going with allowing the System Managed Size and it will establish the amounts.
For example, using the System Managed settings with the minimum set at 2MB and the Recommended and Current at ~1.5 times the RAM amount (1533MB).

Otherwise try the Custom size; setting the Initial size at 561MB and the Maximum size at 1122MB being 1.5 and 3 times your RAM amount.

John

Note: This is not to make excuses for Sony and the problem you are describing. This is just another one of the growing list of possible workarounds that have become a Vegas tradition.

busterkeaton wrote on 4/26/2005, 3:42 AM

So, I uninstalled Vegas 6 and reinstalled and loaded my test project. Vegas feels zippy and my CPU and page file usage are just about the same as Vegas 5.
I can get 29.97 even when I preview to BEST - FULL and my scrolling text over a push transition still gets about 27fps.

Thanks John,

Actually I prefer to keep my minimum and maximum of my page file the same size. That way Windows never has to resize it and its less likely to become fragmented. I read that on a Windows tweaks page somewhere.

johnmeyer wrote on 4/26/2005, 8:29 AM

I've had these problems with both Vegas 5 and DVDA 1.0 and DVDA 2.0, so it goes back almst two years. How much physical RAM do you have in your system? For me, the solution was to upgrade from 512 MB to 1 GB. The problem hasn't gone away, but it happens far less frequently. I have reported this to Sony and talked about it here in these forums, but few other people responded, so I assume there is something in my configuration (like the RAM) that is causing it.

My computer is absolutely stripped (no anti-virus, most startup processes set to manual) so background programs are not the issue. I have a page file on my second drive as well as a small one on the C: drive (although I had a more conventional setup before, and still had the problem).

busterkeaton wrote on 4/26/2005, 9:47 AM

I have a 2.66 Ghz P4 with 1.25 Gig of RAM.