Vegas 12 Bug - Don't do this...

krew wrote on 9/28/2012, 2:12 AM

I just installed Vegas 12 and was changing the settings. Thought I would mention this bug.

I have three GTX-680 video cards in SLI. Under the GPU acceleration option (Options-> Preferences-> Video-> GPU Acceleration of video processing) it shows my three video cards and the first card was highlighted. I changed the GPU acceleration to the third card and closed and restarted Vegas 12.

This caused the video preview window to become corrupted (it would show a garbled image of various things, none of which were the video I had loaded). It also caused Vegas 12 to become unstable and crash quite a bit. Now for the really bad part. It would not let me change the GPU acceleration back to the first card. It now always defaulted to the third card no matter what I did.

I tried changing back to the first card and then closing and reopening, that didn't work as it *always* now defaulted to card 3. I rebooted and that didn't help. I then uninstalled Vegas 12 and reinstalled it and yet it always defaulted to card 3 and had a corrupted video preview window, and wouldn't let me change to card 1.

Finally I did a system restore to a point before I installed Vegas 12, and then reinstalled and it was okay. It now defaults to card 1 again and works fine.

So... don't do what I did! :-)

Comments

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/28/2012, 5:28 AM

I believe you can usually hold down Shift, or CTRL+Shift ( can't remember ) while starting Vegas, and it will ask you if you want to restore to default settings. Don't know if that would have helped. It also may have helped to disable the SLI in the control panel and then see if you could re-assign correctly.

Dave

john_dennis wrote on 9/28/2012, 9:00 AM

GHOST 15 or some other system imaging software.

I can try any tweak I want (that doesn't involve smoke), then make the system forget it ever happened.

PeterDuke wrote on 9/28/2012, 9:47 AM

Ghost wouldn't have done anything better than system restore in this case, but I usually find that system restore doesn't work just when I need it.

I thoroughly recommend taking images of the C: drive for cases such as this and to clear out the crud left behind by software you have been trialling.

Before you do a restore to an earlier image, however, be sure to take a current one in case there is some data you forgot to backup or other unforeseen problem.

JimBob53 wrote on 9/29/2012, 7:57 AM

Thank goodness this post was here. I experienced the same issue except I'm running 2 GTX560 cards in an SLI configuration. I switched Pro 12 to use the second card and ka-boom, it messed up the trim and video monitor windows. As stated earlier it made Pro 12 become so unstable that it was basically unusable. Uninstall/reinstall was no help. I'm glad someone mentioned the SHIFT-CTRL when starting. I was presented with the "restore default settings" and that fixed the problem. It defaulted back to card 1 and all is working again.