Vegas 12 and Geforce GTX 550 Ti

marcel-vossen wrote on 4/10/2016, 7:34 AM

Hi there,

I have been working with Vegas 12 and Geforce GTX 550 Ti for a long time, but I've never been able to enable the GPU acceleration in vegas without problems. Every time a newer driver is published by Nvidia , I try this and I end up disabling it again because of issues, black preview windows, flickering etc

When GPU acc. is enabled, I also don't notice any difference in performance, and the preview even seems to get less fluent...

Maybe I should just buy a different graphics card?

-What can you guys recommend?
-Any cards that work very well with Win 7 64 bit, Vegas 12 AND GPU acceleration ?
-Does it improve performance a lot IF it works correctly?
-Is it more for rendering or for preview as well?

Marcel

Comments

OldSmoke wrote on 4/10/2016, 11:59 AM

How about this.

marcel-vossen wrote on 4/10/2016, 5:22 PM

Hey Oldsmoke,

Thanks, that makes sense! So I bet on the wrong horse...

Does anyone know if it makes a lot of difference if you buy a R9 380 , R9 390 or R7 370 or some other AMD card? In these examples they don't seem to differ much?

Marcel

Former user wrote on 4/10/2016, 9:16 PM

A friend running VP13 had a custom system built using an R9 380 and he's very happy with the performance. System specs: i7 5820K (edited) / liquid cooling / ASUS X99-A MB / 16gigs ram / 512 gig SSD system drive / 2 x 2TB data drives / 1000 Watt 80 plus PSU / Windows 10 Pro.

The whole system was assembled and tested for around $1700 from iBuyPower.

john_dennis wrote on 4/10/2016, 11:16 PM

Do you mean i7 5820?

marcel-vossen wrote on 4/11/2016, 1:58 AM

Thanks,

I have an i7-2600 3,4 GHz with 16Gb of RAM and SSD's, it's a few years old but I guess the card will make a great improvement anyway! Otherwise i might have to update my main board and CPU again sometime soon...

BTW I tried windows 10 once but threw it off a few days later because it was doing a lot of stuff in the background that I didn't like...it had 40% of CPU lost on processes to spy on me, at least it felt like that and I couldn't find out how to stop it.
Maybe I have to clean install it, i did the upgrade...

Marcel

Former user wrote on 4/11/2016, 6:22 AM

"Do you mean i7 5820?" -- oops, yep ;-)

DavidK wrote on 4/11/2016, 2:50 PM

Marcel,

It does make a difference between the R9 390, R9 380 and R7 370. But it depends on several things.

I have done some more testing with a more complex time line and I am seeing more of a difference. I will update as soon as I get a chance to reflect this.

A lot depends on your how complex the timeline is, the computer system, the CPU, the memory, whether or not you are using SSD or Hard Drives.

For example, in one test I recently did, the time line had 5 tracks of HD material running off of a hard drive. I tested two video cards, the R7 370 and the R9 390. The R9 390 was only slightly faster.

HOWEVER, when I pulled the drive and put in an SDD drive into the system, using the same timeline with 5 tracks of HD material, the R9 was quite a bit faster. The reason is the Hard Drive was bottlenecking me and not allowing me to feed the R9 390 fast enough to see a real difference.

You have to take a look at your whole system when choosing a video card.

Dave

marcel-vossen wrote on 4/12/2016, 7:42 AM

Thanks David,

That makes sense!
I'm using many layers also sometimes and even 4k footage, so I better buy the best card I can get within reason, and then upgrade other stuff from there! :)

Marcel