Veg Pro 11 crashing every couple of minutes!

Jeff G wrote on 12/10/2011, 12:02 PM

Hello...I am applying levels, color correction and white balance (all Sony Plug-ins) and during tweaking the system flashes white screen and says "Vegas has stopped working" then it closes. I have tried an array of things:

1. Uninstall \ reinstall
2. Found Dynamic RAM setting at 200mb and changed to 1024 and it worked better but still crashed.
3. Tried turning off Resampling - worked better but still crashed.

If this crash was a couple of times a work session that might be one thing but every 2 to 10 minutes is driving me crazy!!! Any suggestions? Also, my stabilizer is grayed out???

Thank you or any help!!!

Comments

Leee wrote on 12/11/2011, 2:35 PM

Hi Jeff,
I think if you'll take a few minutes to read through some of the most recent topics here you'll see lots of people, including myself, are having problems with crashing in Vegas pro 11. Some get hardly any crashes and some are as severe as in your case.

The solutions and work-arounds are as varied as there are posts. But the common answers seem to be check for the latest drivers of EVERYTHING on your computer, especially video drivers. I personally think various codecs work better than others. Some folks have suggested turning off the GPU acceleration in Preferences seems to help. But mostly we're just waiting for an update to help fix some of these crashing problems. But definitely check your video drivers first.

mikelinton wrote on 12/19/2011, 2:25 PM

Hi Jeff

I would suggest re-installing Vegas 10 if you have it, and working with that until Vegas 11 is a bit more bug-free. We installed 11 on all 3 of our suites (which are all different) and all 3 systems are experiencing different issues with it... so much so we went back to 10 within 20 minutes and haven't cut anything on 11 since.

But we've become used to it - this has become the norm with every new release of Vegas - stick with the previous version until b or c is released, and then it's usually 99% stable anyway.

Sony needs to get a better beta test program or something, it's nuts to release software with this many issues and they seem to be taking a page from Adobe's book and changing things in the software (for seemingly no reason), which just creates more issues in the end.

Anyway, love the software, hate the growing pains we have to go through with each new release...

Mike.

MTuggy wrote on 12/20/2011, 12:31 AM

See my other posts from today - if you have an Nvidia card, get the 285.79 beta drivers AND in the preferences - uncheck any midi device. Someone else discovered these solutions -might fix your system right up.

I did those two things based on other's posts and it cleared up my crashes.

Mike

Laurence wrote on 12/20/2011, 8:10 AM

Instead of uninstalling and reinstalling Vegas, start concentrating on your graphics card drivers. Try the newest version, try betas, keep trying until Vegas stops crashing (or at least crashes less).

Grazie wrote on 12/20/2011, 8:20 AM

Just done this for my nVidia. BIG leap . .

- g

rmack350 wrote on 12/20/2011, 11:05 AM

I have had the same problem on an Intel system with integrated graphics. All OFX filter dialogs cause a crash when you try to adjust them. DirectX filters are fine. This also affects Vegas 10 but I *think* uninstalling Vegas 11 gets 10 back into shape. If not, uninstall both, hunt down anything named OFX that is related to Vegas (including hidden files) and delete them, and then reinstall VP10.

It *could* be the Intel Graphics driver on this system although graphics acceleration is *supposed to be* disabled by default. It's not available to turn on with integrated graphics (but you can select Off again in prefs and I actually got two or three more adjustments in before Vegas crashed. Probably a coincidence.)

Build 511 didn't change the situation for me. My computer at work that uses an ATI Radeon HD 2400XT card doesn't have the same problem.

You *can* apply an OFX filter and then copy/Paste Attributes to other timeline events. Vegas plays the effects fine, I think it's the dialog that's crashing rather than the effects themselves, or maybe it's the act of changing the OFX parameters.

Rob Mack

PhillB wrote on 12/20/2011, 12:51 PM

similar problems on my system.
Started reading through forum articles and based on the number of experienced users pulling their hair out, went back to V10 and will wait patiently for Sony to get it sorted.
Don't really want to complain because I love the product and all the developement sony are putting in, I guess sometimes comercial pressures lead to shortened testing times, thats just how it is.