Ok, so I turned GPU acceleration off. So far so good. That seems to be a clue. Video rendering got further than before. Will report back if it does NOT get all the way through. Vegas should have enough of my crash reports to hopefully do something useful. For now I guess I will keep my 1080TI idle :( Seems the GPU support needs to be looked into. Something broke between Vegas 16-Vegas 18. Thanks for the quick response!

Just to say, I am using a 1080ti and Vegas 18 is working brilliantly with it.

With GPU acceleration enabled?

I work good and fast with AVC and HEVC 4K sources from 80-100 MB/s bitrate in VPro 18 on laptop and desktop from signature. I had to learn nothing to change in VPro 18 for the settings what in all my former versions was needed to do in order to get good results.

With GPU acceleration enabled?

Yes. You must use so4compundplug ie legacy options turned off.

Hi there! Got Vegas Suite 18 a few weeks ago and it keeps crashing randomly. Vegas 16 works like a charm. Did driver update, reboot... the usual stuff. Just keeps crashing usually when jumping around in a file, playback or rendering. Lost many hours of work. Please help. Am on Intel based MSI Motherboard with Geforce 1080 TI card. Vegas 16 rock solid, Vegas 18 very crashy. Trying to render a video for release today, but might have to post a "Sorry, Vegas is preventing me from posting today's video" instead :( Please help.

I have just started a new project (Sony XAVCS 4K) about 15 clips total about 7 mins. I do simple things, levels filter to adjust picture, drag clips ends to resize, stabilize the clip where necessary and use pan/crop to adjust the horizon to level where necessary. In the last three hours Vegas 18 has 1st stopped working when resizing a clip (following restarting the program it works fine on the clips and has been fine since). 2nd stopped working when using pan/crop in rotating a clip (again restart program and all is fine no problem with clips or any of the others). So yes I agree that it is randomly crashing for little apparent reason. It has been fine for last two hours.

Having the same problem - started with Vegas 17 crashing randomly and continues with Vegas 18. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X w/ 64GB RAM and ASUS ROG STRIX 1080Ti. After 6mo v17 finally was stable enough to use on a regular basis, now v18 has put me back at 'Go'. It's crashing about every 15min of edit time. Edits are hardly complex.

Hi. From another discussion thread I got idea to disable "Enable QSV encoding and decoding (where available)" and "Enable OpenCL/GL Interop for Intel GPU". After short testing period stability seems to improve. My computer has NVidia 1050 Ti and it disables Intel CPU internal HD graphics. 'Thinking here' is that somehow Vegas tries use HD graphics even it is not usable and causes problems. This cannot be validated as I don't have source code to look at.

Hardware acceleration is on and rendering thread count is 32.

To me that is a big fail. Hardware acceleration is an advertised feature I paid money for. Well I am not getting what I paid for. My renders are dog slow. Maybe if we ask for it enough?

Perhaps I need to clarify. HW accelerations seems to work (NVidia) but unchecking those 2 seems to make it more stable. This is case on my machine where Lenovo desktop disables Intel CPU GPU when there is external display card attached. Hope this clarifies my earlier post.

This is case on my machine where Lenovo desktop disables Intel CPU GPU when there is external display card attached

If you want also your IntelGPU on your laptop you have to allow it in the BIOS.
Then you have both like mine and you can choose the one you want to use, but it helps only when your upgrade also the Intel GPU drivers till the latest possible.

If you want also your IntelGPU on your laptop you have to allow it in the BIOS.
Then you have both like mine and you can choose the one you want to use, but it helps only when your upgrade also the Intel GPU drivers till the latest possible.

Yep. For some reason if card is attached to machine, CPU GPU is disabled and not even visible on UEFI (BIOS) settings. If I remove whole card, then CPU GPU is visible.

@Erkki, in my UEFI the setting is called "IGPU Multi-Monitor" under Advanced\Chipset Configuration. I set it to Enabled to keep Intel GPU enabled at all times when external GPU card is installed.

Latest update still crashes. They should just take the option out until they fix it. This is misleading customers. I can't even get through a 30 minute render if I turn it on, but without it, the 30 minute render takes more than 3 hours. Very disappointed. I feel like an idiot for buying the Suite which set me back a lot of money. My next upgrade will be... Adobe Premiere :)

The problem is likely a driver issue on your end. Did you use the driver update utility in the help menu to pick the correct driver?

Yes, used the Magix driver update, the NVdia driver update.. those types of things are the first things I try.

No luck.

This is a useful thread for Vegas team. Yesterday I was assembling a short 3 min video of trip to IOW in 2018. Simple stuff on each clip, on the timeline add the levels filter, use pan/crop to level the horizon, add stabilization. Vegas 334 randomly stopped responding at least three times when - opening the FX picker, opening/closing pan/crop or doing simple things. Restarting the program and doing exactly the same things again all is fine. V17 is fine doing these things.

Ran fine for a few hours and last but one clip of 22 not responding when trying to open fx picker. Could this be a minor memory leak?

Managed to improve the stability of V18 - for me! These have been mentioned before.

1). Set Dynamic Ram Preview to 0

2). Disabled Opencl/GL interop for intel GPU

3). Disabled Opencl/GL interop

4). Only add my titles (NewBlue Titler 4) to the title track after undertaking all FX levels, any Pan/crop, all stabilizations.

Completed a 4K video of 40 clips. No crashes. A first for me with V18.

Video acceleration has not been affected or reduced by 2 & 3 as far as i can see.

You may get some clues to your issue by reading this article. I too have had Intel issues with my i5 8250, and have had to leave acceleration turned off, even after the Asus-supplied graphics update. The advice to toggle so4 is also valid.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/updated-fixing-the-pale-screen-of-misery--122436/

Yes thanks, read your post before changing some of these parameters. The last thing for me to do was take the title off the timeline while editing clips as things were going well and I had a crash a little while after adding the title. I hope things remain good for now. Who knows what may happen after another update is released.

Having to jump through hoops just for Vegas not to crash is unacceptable to me. I paid a lot of money for a product that advertises hardware acceleration. If it was 60 dollar shareware it would be different. CS just got back to me to send them a crash reporter thingamajig. Well I would if I could... Vegas just hangs without crash reporter and eventually I just have to exit task via task manager which does not create a Vegas crash report. I am pretty much done with Vegas at this point. Just look at the number of responses with no solution. Mostly people with similar issues. Maybe if we all ask for our money back they will fix their stuff. Time to look at https://www.openshot.org/download/