System low on memory error???

matt d wrote on 10/15/2010, 6:54 PM
I have an Asus desktop with a i7 and 9gigs of RAM. I'm running VMS 10.0 on Win 7.

Things were running fine since I bought it about 8 months ago. For whatever reason I'm now getting these memory errors when trying to Render.

I took it to bestbuy and they found nothing wrong with my computer and even erased a bunch of temporary files thinking that would solve the issue. Nothing changed.

Anybody else have this problem???

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Eugenia wrote on 10/15/2010, 7:09 PM
You're not telling us how you're trying to render. But the answer is this: VMS is a 32bit application, and can only use 2 GB of RAM, no matter how much RAM your PC has. You must search this forum, to find the hack that makes 32bit apps be able to access 1 more GB of RAM -- to ease the situation. It's a dangerous hack though.

Alternatively, use a different codec that doesn't run out of RAM so fast.
matt d wrote on 10/15/2010, 7:39 PM
Thanks for the reply Eugenia.

I actually used to follow your guide to render Youtube videos in the past. Then I got a new Sony camera with the AVCHD format that caused nothing but problems. I was able to work around that by Rendering to MPEG-2 not Sony Avc.

I've also tried saving as a Sony AVC, internet file with nothing but crashes.

My new computer came with Win 7. Again not a big deal as long as I Rendered as an MPEG-2.

I've tried the CFF hack and it seemed to work in the past but for some reason I'm getting this new low memory error just this week.

I honestly feel like it's time to try some new software like Adobe or an Imac.

I know it sounds negative but I'm tired of the upgrades not working. New computer... VMS 10.0... So much money spent and no feedback from Sony.

I'm flat out lost.

Oh and my cheap HP laptop with Vista is a workhorse. No Render issues at all. Just crap playback.
Chienworks wrote on 10/16/2010, 4:44 AM
When you get the low memory error does rendering actually stop? I get popups about low memory and low virtual memory quite often; i click the close button, Windows reallocates resources, and whatever i was doing continues on it's merry way.
matt d wrote on 10/16/2010, 6:53 PM
Chienworks, rendering does stop.

This is killing me. This new popup never showed until I started making videos with multiple formats. I have a Sony handycam that records to AVCHD, a Gopro helmet cam that never causes issues, and a Canon Rebel T2i that I convert to .avi's.

Any of these formats alone will render fine but as soon as I merge the formats into one project Vegas crashes after almost every edit. And if I don't get the memory error message Vegas will just close.
Eugenia wrote on 10/16/2010, 8:36 PM
Create a new project, set the right project properties, copy/paste the whole timeline from one window to another, close the old window, re-render. See if it goes through now.