Vegas & Acid keep crashing with video

meanbass wrote on 1/7/2002, 5:00 PM

This is my problem: Acid and VegasVideo work great until I try to preview video then the whole system either crashes and reboots or it locks up until I have to pull the plug on the computer. It is a brand new computer I put together with the following components:

Iwill KK266 motherboard with a VIA 133 chipset
AMD Athlon XP processor 1.4 ghz
M Audio Delta 66 soundcard
Voodoo 3000 16mb video card
WD 60gb hard drive
W98 SE

The only software that I run on the machine is the OS and SF's Vegas, Acid Pro and SoundForge. I have reformatted the hard drive twice to try to solve but nothing seems to work. Does anybody have any suggestions because I'm getting near wit's end? Thanks.

Comments

pelvis wrote on 1/7/2002, 8:46 PM

2 questions:

1) What exactly is the file type you are trying to play?

2) Do you have the latest Via drivers?

meanbass wrote on 1/12/2002, 5:03 PM

I have the latest 4 in 1 drivers. The .avi video type that I'm running is Microsoft YUV which I captured using an analog usb capture device from Dazzle, the DV creator 80. I think that VV3 may be having trouble reading that type of codec. I have an OHCI card installed but VV3 isn't recognizing it. It may be a faulty card (it is a generic CompUSA brand). Any ideas on a good OHCI card that works well with VV3? Thanks for the help.

jtardiff wrote on 1/13/2002, 4:51 PM

Most folks seem to have the best luck with 1394 cards based on the TI chipset. I use the Pyro Basic which cost me around $50.

JT