Vegas 12 Crashes On AMD Vishera

bigrock wrote on 1/27/2013, 12:39 AM

I recently upgraded one of my machines to an AMD 8350 Vishera 8 Core processor from an AMD 1090T 6 Core processor on the same AM3+ motherboard. Tonight was the first time I tried rendering Vegas projects on it. Very basic stuff like colors bars seemed ok but reqular video produces Vegas Crashes and constant Windows blue screens. The system itself seems to be ok - it runs BOINC for weeks without an issue. The same exact hardware with the 1090T I used to hammer with Vegas rendering 24 hours a day for days on end without a crash.

My question is anyone out there using an AMD 8350 on Vegas without any issues?

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/27/2013, 6:34 AM

Did you blank & reinstall the OS? The one time I didn't do that when I upgraded my CPU I had nothing but issues.

bigrock wrote on 1/27/2013, 1:42 PM

Not in this case. The drivers are exactly the same. And everything else has worked great. Like I said I ran it full out on Boinc with CPU and GPU maxed for several weeks and not a crash. I have tried changing thread numbers, GPU enabled or not and it makes no difference. Sometimes Vegas crashes, sometime the system freezes, and sometimes it blue screens.

Surely someone out there is using an AMD 8350 as well and can comment with their experience, it would be appreciatted.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/27/2013, 1:55 PM

It's a new CPU so I doubt many here will have it.

The only way to make sure there's no issues is to blank install the OS. The way I've looked at it is that it takes ~8 hours total to get everything back on. More then 1+ day working on an issue like this is then a waste of time.

bigrock wrote on 1/27/2013, 5:24 PM

Any easier way might be to swap in another boot drive, and put the a new install of the os on that and then test it while preserving the old one - might just do that.

It's not only a new cpu - it's a new modular archtecture. In tests it showed about 60% performance gain over the 6 core 1090t at stock clock rates. It also uses faster memory.

bigrock wrote on 1/27/2013, 8:14 PM

I have found a way to duplicate the problem outside of Vegas by using a GPU exerciser that drives it to max usage, and then the system crashes. Back checking ATI driver versions now. It seems Vegas or perhaps a plugin are using the GPU even when those functions are disabled.

bigrock wrote on 2/10/2013, 12:46 AM

Just wanted you know I isolated the problem to my ATI 6870 card. Tried numerous driver versions - no impact. I put my older ati 5770 card and the problem immediately cleared with the every thing else the same. Put the ATI 6870 back in and the problem was back. I have done hundreds of hours of render with this GPU in that past but it appears something has broke down in it.

It still appear to run games but it will crash at times runnning OpenCL GPU project from BOINC. I did purchase an extended warranty with this card so will see what they say. I suspect they will try to get ouf of honoring because it is hard to duplicate problem. You need Vegas to produce the system lockup.

bigrock wrote on 2/10/2013, 12:53 AM

So it appears the AMD 8350 Vishera 8 Core is just fine for Vegas.