Task Switching / Multi Tasking Delay

gordonmcdowell wrote on 10/30/2009, 12:09 PM

I'm running Win7x64 and Vegas9.0c.

When I switch between apps in Windows, there's a very significant delay which appears to increase depending on the complexity of my project. An empty project has no pause at all when switching.

Running a quad-core Q9450 @ 2.66 GHz (and 7 GB RAM), the pause with my current project is ~12 seconds. That's 12 seconds of Vegas showing busy cursor and if I click on anything else, I'll start waiting through those 12 seconds again.

There is NO pause when I switch from Vegas to any other app. The pause is only when I switch back to Vegas.

I've tried disabling Media Manager and restarted Vegas. The delay is still there.

It really does impact my productivity. Any suggestions?

Thanks, -Gord

Comments

Former user wrote on 10/30/2009, 12:16 PM

This may be caused by Vegas releasing the files so they can be used by other programs (such as Acid or Photoshop) and then it has to re-acquire them when you change the focus back to vegas. There is a switch to turn this option off, but then your files are locked when you are focused off of Vegas.

Dave T2

gordonmcdowell wrote on 11/2/2009, 2:00 PM

"Close media files when not the active application"... disabled.

Ah thanks Dave! I do see the value in not-locking them, so for smaller projects I may enable this feature. But this will help me with the big ones.

-Gord