Vegas Being Very Slow and Unresponsive

DarkSparkish wrote on 2/20/2020, 3:47 AM

Doesn't seem like anyone has talked about this issue before, but I am currently working on a YouTube Poop of a nearly 2-hour movie. And suddenly it started becoming really slow, and I've had this issue for quite sometime now. It takes nearly a minute or more to simply move a clip around, splitting a clip takes nearly 40 seconds and pretty much doing anything within the timeline takes forever before they take action. It happened in Vegas Pro 14 and it still happens in Vegas Pro 17 with its latest build (Build 421). I did fix the problem by rendering what I have worked on to a new project, but then the problem arises again as the project went on. In addition to that, it also sometimes refuses to do anything and gives me a message telling me to open up a new project and it repedately displays this message until it stops. I use a pretty beefy computer (Which has a GTX 1070, AMD Ryzen 1700 CPU, 16GB RAM and an SSD which Vegas runs off of) so I don't think that the reason stems from my computer being "weak". And Vegas works pretty well otherwise on other projects. It's just this one specific project it struggles with.

I suspect it could be a RAM-thing, but I could be wrong on that. Does anyone know how I can fix the issue I'm currently having? Am I the only one who's experiencing it?

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RogerS wrote on 2/27/2025, 9:59 AM

Interesting report, Lachlan and let us know what you find. If you close the HUB tab does it help? Or if you also close explorer (anything that might be using network resources?)

lachlan145 wrote on 2/27/2025, 5:19 PM

@lachlan145 I've not experienced anything of the sorts with my "capable" computer with the internet connected to it. I've never disconnected the internet.

What you have failed to do is provide the appropriate information as to what are the specs of your "capable" computer, and which build of VP22 you are using. In addition to what types of video you are using.

Here is a suggestion if you want a possible answer, start a new post, and include this INFORMATION ('B' and 'C') in that post with the issues you are having with specifics, not generalities.

I'm just offering an idea based on something I noticed that reverted my Vegas experience; the difference was instant and significant. I still don't know exactly what the core issue was, but it was clearly something network related.

For the issues described by the OP (ie. it takes nearly a minute or more to simply move a clip around), based on my recent experience, this issue may have less to do with PC specs - for example, when I was having unexplained performance issues I would have trouble navigating Vegas with an empty timeline. It felt like driving a car down the highway without issue then suddenly struggling to go 5mph. All this despite Task Manager showing that barely any resources were being used.

Since fixing the issue I've tried signing back in to Vegas Hub again without any noticeable concerns, so I'm not saying that it's completely at fault or anything, but maybe refreshing the connection did something to alleviate a weird network issue or bug.

I had tried working with both builds 194 and 239, as well as upgrading Windows 10 to 11, and no change.

To really highlight the fact that it's not spec-related, I have two almost identical laptops and one of them continued running Vegas just fine - so I edited on that one by accessing files from the original PC over the network instead of locally on the machine, and still it ran completely fine compared to the laptop with Vegas issues.

These laptops are both 2020-2021 era, running 32GB RAM, Core i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, RTX2060 8GB graphics. They're not new but they are well equipped, so I know they're not to blame for abnormal Vegas lag.

Reyfox wrote on 3/3/2025, 5:27 AM

If it runs fine on one laptop and not the other, the problem then would be with the problematic laptop. It could be anything from OS to other software installed.

RogerS wrote on 3/3/2025, 6:30 AM

It is possible the laptop was doing something in the background, like downloading and installing an update to other software.

lachlan145 wrote on 3/12/2025, 7:10 AM

If it runs fine on one laptop and not the other, the problem then would be with the problematic laptop. It could be anything from OS to other software installed.

Given the fact that the laptop ran Vegas flawlessly before and after this weird incident with Vegas Hub, I'm gonna go with Vegas being the cause of the issue. 👍

lachlan145 wrote on 3/12/2025, 7:13 AM

It is possible the laptop was doing something in the background, like downloading and installing an update to other software.

This was over several days with plenty of shutdowns and restarts, reinstalls and so forth. Nothing like software updates or downloads have ever really affected the user experience in most of my editing software, it's only when there's a few intensive programs running renders/re-encodes at once that it really slows things down. This was just crippling, it made Vegas unusable. Super weird.