Sending to External monitor while editing

Richard-Hall wrote on 7/8/2024, 2:20 PM

I have an HP Desktop with 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400   2.50 GHz with 12GB of RAM, and plenty of storage. Windows 11. I also use Cloud storage to keep my HD storage to a minimum. I am editing on VEGAS Version 21.0 (Build 315).

Up until the last week, I have been able to click on the Video Preview Icon over my Preview window and have it send a Preview to an external monitor in order to check edits, etc. Now, when I click on the Preview icon, all I get is a white display...no video. I have to exit out of everything and then re-load VEGAS in order to be able to see it for a few minutes, but after a few minutes of editing, the Preview on the external monitor goes to all-white again. Have I inadvertently turned on or off something? How do I get my Preview back? Anybody else notice this problem???

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Gid wrote on 7/8/2024, 6:32 PM

@Richard-Hall If you can see it for a few minutes on the external monitor that suggests it's working but something else is failing at some point, poss overheating for example maybe dust in the fans restricting cooling, Do you have a separate graphics card (GPU)? If not your PC is running on the integrated GPU which will fail if overheating occurs.

Your 12GB of RAM is under the recommended amount, I'm not sure if Integrated GPU's need a lot but either way your PC maybe struggling when the RAM gets full. Have a look at Taskmanager & see what your PC is doing. (There have been reports of Vegas holding onto RAM & it rising beyond acceptable amounts)

Has anything changed in the last wk, are you using different media for instance?

 

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Howard-Vigorita wrote on 7/10/2024, 3:38 PM

I you didn't change anything in Vegas, it's probably a change in video drivers, possibly caused by a Windows Update. You might want to check the Windows Update logs and see it it installed a display driver update lately. If so, you might be able to Roll Back the driver. My approach is to disable driver updates by Windows Update in Group Policy and then manually uninstall to reinstall the driver I want.