Vegas is triggering DEP warnings.

blink3times wrote on 4/13/2008, 8:48 PM

I have DEP (data execution prevention) turned off for all programs except essential ones. In spite of that, Vista keeps shutting down Vegas (while rendering.... yup... you guessed it.... M2T files) with warnings of DEP triggering. Vista is claiming that Vegas is not using the memory properly.

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Christian de Godzinsky wrote on 4/13/2008, 10:27 PM

Hmmm... that's another reason why serious users never even consider running on Vista... I somehow envy the Mac users, since they newer have to think about on what OS should they run ther applications...They just run them.

Christian

blink3times wrote on 4/14/2008, 2:55 AM

Personally speaking of course..... but I think Macs make really great boat anchors! And there's nothing wrong with Vista.... as far as I can see it's just doing it's job. The question is why is Vegas all over the map with its memory usage.

jabloomf1230 wrote on 4/14/2008, 8:26 AM

The simple solution is to disable DEP just for Vegas (not the "essential ones" option) with the Windows Control Panel. The worst thing that will happen is that you will generate a different error message that might be more helpful in troubleshooting the problem.

blink3times wrote on 4/14/2008, 2:34 PM

As already stated DEP has already been disabled for ALL non essential programs.... that's what is so surprising

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/14/2008, 7:18 PM

got the wife a new laptop in january with vista... everything was getting the DEP error. Solution? Turn it off completely. Even Windows components get the error.

jabloomf1230 wrote on 4/14/2008, 7:28 PM

Yes, but try the other option. For some crazy reason, the explicit reference option works, well sorta. You still get some crashes, but they aren't as frequent. In x64, DEP is enabled by default for every program and service, all the time, no matter what that top option says.

EDIT: This used to work for getting rid of DEP forever. From a command prompt, run, "as Administrator" type:

bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff

"nx" means "NoExecute" In Windows parlance. reboot and the DEP options in the Windows Control Panel should be grayed out. You can turn DEP back on:

bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOn

DISCLAIMER: Do this at your own risk. Turning off DEP could be masking virus attacks and/or serious software bugs. Generally, your Anti-Virus checker should be enough, so you can turn DEP off, without too much risk.