System Pauses With Dual Monitor

jbar wrote on 8/16/2003, 10:42 PM
Just added a PCI TNT2 card to my system which already had an AGP Geforce2 GTS/Pro in it. (I also upgraded from 1.33 GHZ Thunderbird to Athlon 1600 XP, but I don't think that is related).

I was editing some projects and noticed that Vegas 4.0 (and the whole system) was frequently pausing for ~5 sec. or so. After some playing around (and some luck) I noticed that it only occurs when Vegas is maximized. I can easily recreate it by resizing the h-scroll bar (to zoom in/out), but it happens other times too.

Has anyone else using dual monitor's seen anything like this ? Having or not having anything on the 2nd monitor didn't seem to matter.

Running Win2k Pro SP4.

-Jeff

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J_Mac wrote on 8/16/2003, 11:07 PM
I've been using dual CRT's for awhile, and have never seen this. I assume you have your primary monitor in the AGP. Also I dont maximize to stretch over both monitors.
If 'Having or not having anything on the 2nd monitor didn't seem to matter.', then this may indicate which card is a problem with VV, But mostly you hear in the forum that which vid card is used doesn't matter a whole lot for capture and display. I may look elsewhere. Good luck John.

Randy Brown wrote on 8/17/2003, 9:40 AM
I've seen it on my older system, but didn't (perhaps ignorantly) relate it to the video cards. If I clicked anything while it was paused I would get "V4 is not responding" and then I would usually shut down V4 in the task manager (after waiting about 10 minutes).
Randy
jbar wrote on 8/23/2003, 8:58 PM
Just a followup FYI...

Although the most pronounced "pauses" where in Vegas, I noticed pauses at other times while running other programs and eventually just in Win2k.

I had been having subtle other problems too, that I had chaulked up as driver annoyancies...so I went ahead and migrated to another partition with a fresh copy of Win2k and programs. This cleaned up many issues including this one and also sped up the system.

Before Win2k, I could only go for about 6-9 months without a complete re-install of Windows...at least with Win2k, I went well over a year.