Vegas 22 - 248 and 250 - Which is more stable and what settings to use

joshua-noesser wrote on 6/26/2025, 7:13 PM

Good Day Everyone,

I am looking for a general opinion on which patch level to run and what the best tweaks to make them stable. I have noticed with 248 and 250 that they changed up a lot of the settings. So, first question, in your opinion, which version is more stable and provides the best user experience? (Smooth scrolling, payback, least about of crashes)

For these versions, what are some of the tweaks you all made to make it a better overall experience? As in what settings did you change?

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Dexcon wrote on 6/26/2025, 7:47 PM

There is little difference between builds 248 and 250, the changes outlined in 250's announcement: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/patch-vegas-pro-22-build-250--148934/

So if you are running Windows 11 (especially 24H2 I would think), then 250 would be the better option.

I'm using build 250 on a W11 24H2 computer and find 250 to be reliable and problem free. Other than changing some display settings (e.g. colors, window layouts) based on personal preference, there haven't been any 'performance' changes made based on the media that I'm using - mainly MP4 (AVC).

Depending on the media being used, the most common change of settings would be to enable 'legacy AVC decoding' and/or 'experimental HEVC decoding' in Preferences/File I/O if timeline performance stutters or similar.

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RogerS wrote on 6/26/2025, 8:43 PM

I use 250 and keep the settings on default.