Print to Tape and CPU usage

WageSlave wrote on 9/16/2004, 11:09 AM
I'm currently trying to print to tape a hour long project I've done on Vegas. My computer has 60GB hard drive and 512RAM, currently which only 14.65 (28%) is free. I know this is using alot of memory but I've printed to tape 27 minute projects with only 19% free and no problems in the past.
During print to tape I'm running no other programs and Vegas is using between 68%-80% of the CPU - normal. However everytime about five minutes into the print to tape the program explorer.exe will suddenly spike up and take up 30-50% of the CPU, when it normally idles around 0-4%. Of course this freezes up the print to tape and messes up everything.
I've run a spyware program and eliminated all suspicious programs, still no change. When I go to my computers tech support they tell me I need more memory (which I'm doing next month), but how come its worked nummerous times before at these levels and not now? I've run a MSConfig and unchecked all the startup boxes, still nothing. Is there a way to stop this explorer.exe from spiking?
Help please.

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Erk wrote on 9/20/2004, 12:30 AM
I'll take a stab, although maybe the best thing about my repy is it'll bump your question up so somebody smarter may answer...

- is this a pre-rendered file? If not, try rendering the whole thing to an NTSC/Pal file, and print that. Should be less taxing on your system.

-on the explorer.exe spike, a guess: is that your swap file shuffling around? ie, more RAM might help, as has been suggested.

Greg