As one of those with memory issues leading to crashes or lockup with HD video, I have uncovered another "solution" but I am curious about others experience. I am running 8.0c on Vista 64 Business system with 8 GB of RAM on an Intel 6600 Quad. Recently had to reinstall all Vegas software trying to fix a bug in 8.1 that still renders it useless but 8.0c is working fine.
Anyway, I discovered that if I setup Windows page file to 12 GB (1.5 x the RAM) that helped with rendering stability. BUT if I lower the rendering threads from 4 to 2 the rendering speed TRIPLED. Can anyone explain that to me? I am thrilled that I can again render 1920x1080 WMV files again (used to crash all the time), but I sure wish I understood the memory usage and how to tweak it better.
Mike
Anyway, I discovered that if I setup Windows page file to 12 GB (1.5 x the RAM) that helped with rendering stability. BUT if I lower the rendering threads from 4 to 2 the rendering speed TRIPLED. Can anyone explain that to me? I am thrilled that I can again render 1920x1080 WMV files again (used to crash all the time), but I sure wish I understood the memory usage and how to tweak it better.
Mike