Software Upgrade?

jmcghie wrote on 11/23/2003, 7:28 AM
HI:

It's been awhile since I used this forum. I've had Vegas Pro for years and when it works, it's great. Two years ago I upgraded my computer (trying to get Vegas to run better) to:

Pentium 4 1.6Mg (I think that's Meg)
Pentium Mother Board
512 K (I think it's K)
and 300 G of memory. I lost a whole project once so I bought several disk (7,200 speed) for back-up.
Delta 10/10 with OLD Drivers (learned THAT one from a forum)
-As you can see I'm more of a musician than a computer guy.

Running:

Windows 98 (last time I upgraded this is what people recomended)
Vegas Pro
Ozone (Ozone ROCKS)

Problems:

-Long recordings I get "Unable to build peaks" or just locks up.
-I have problems with running lots of tracks (10 or more).
-Sometimes get "Fatal error"

This tool is not a dedicated recording tool, but I'm ready to make this computer dedicated to recording and upgrade where needed. I saw a lot of people saying 2000XP is the way to go. Is Vegas Pro O.K. or is it worth upgading to Vegas 4.0 (I don't do ANY video stuff but if it's more robust it would be worth it to me). I would like this to tool to be rock solid. I don't care about bells and whistles. Thanks in advance for your time... -John

Comments

Rednroll wrote on 11/24/2003, 6:48 AM
I believe Vegas Pro v1.0 runs on Windows 2000, so there's a good chance it will run on WinXP. With that being said thogh, it's not a supported OS for Vegas Pro. So if your main concern is solid performance, then there's no guarantees, because it's never been tested on this OS. In other words, "use at your own risk".

The errors you're reporting sound like typical Video card conflicts, I've seen in the past using Vegas Pro many..many..many..many...years ago. Check to see if there's any other video card driver updates for your video card, and also make sure that your Delta 10/10 is not sharing any IRQ's with other devices.

BTW: you don't have 300G of memory installed on your PC. That would mean you have 300 Gig of RAM, which I don't think is possible yet on any available motherboards.

If you truly want solid performance with the latest OS, then you need to look for an upgrade to at least Vegas 3.0. It's been debugged and runs on the latest WinXP OS.
heinz3110 wrote on 11/24/2003, 4:05 PM
I (still) run Vegas Pro (version 1.0b) on my Windows 2000 machine,and since I upgraded the videocard from a NVidia to an ATI 7500 it's even more rocksolid(it rarely chrashes nowadays).

Mind you ,I still use a Pentium III /1.2 Gb with 512 MB RAM so by today's standards it's pretty outdated.

I couldn.t care less about that ,actuallly :) .average trackcount (numbers of tracks that can be played at once) is about 16-20 with a bunch of plugins.

The highest trackcount was some 38 tracks with a bunch of plugins,
so,yeah,Vegas Pro does it's job well in conjunction with Windows 2000,allthough I'm still thinking about upgrading Vegas because I want do some video on the side,too.

I reckon that there is something wrong with the setup of your Windows 98 and/or video drivers(strange nasty problems can occur because of that,like Red mentions).

Anyway,upgrading (in your case) to Windows 2000 CAN make a big difference in terms of stability.

And hey,if I can get pretty good performance out of my "outdated"system,then you could have better performane too.Just my two cents.

Gerard
heinz3110 wrote on 11/24/2003, 4:13 PM
Erm..uhm...maybe my reply is considered bragging ? I'm talking about 16Bits/44KHz projects. Ofcourse,if you 're using 24 Bit / 44K-or more samplerate,then well,I suspect that the trackcount will get lower.Duh ;)

Gerard.
jmcghie wrote on 11/25/2003, 5:41 AM
I'm gonna upgrade to Vegas 4.0 (for the reliability not the video). Get 2000XP and look into that video driver card. Thanks for the help... -John
SHTUNOT wrote on 11/25/2003, 1:09 PM
John blow past 2000 and get XP home. Set it up in standard pc mode. Turn off ALL the XP gui and also the auto start for your cd player/burner and you'll be set.

Ed.
billybk wrote on 11/25/2003, 1:52 PM
"John blow past 2000 and get XP home. Set it up in standard pc mode"

I'll second Ed on that! :) I'll also add that you should get the ACID40 drivers for your Delta 1010. They are actually the popular .27 drivers, but with better low latency ASIO support.


Billy Buck