Vegas is using all my CPU?! Even when idle.

cchoy wrote on 8/3/2008, 9:07 PM
When I open Vegas 7e on my laptop computer, it uses all of my CPU even when idle. My computer is plugged in when doing this, I am not even creating any tracks in Vegas. Any ideas anyone? When I run other DAWs on my system there are no problems...

The following are my computer specs:

System OS Windows XP Home SP2
System OS Install Date 5/8/2004 12:51:40 AM
System Make Dell Computer Corporation
System Model Inspiron 8600

Main Board Make Dell Computer Corporation
Processor Description Intel Pentium M
Processor Clock Speed 1400 Mhz
Graphics Description NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
Memory Installed 512 MBs
Memory Configuration 256+256;DIMM Synchronous


Comments

ChristoC wrote on 8/4/2008, 1:25 AM
May not be enough RAM; Vegas Pro specifies minimum required = 1GB
farss wrote on 8/5/2008, 4:23 PM
I've run Vegas with way, way less than 1GB of RAM without issue.
A few things to check. Use Task Manager to ensure there's only one instance of the Vegas process running.

Also on startup Vegas will, unless told not to, attempt to phone home to advise you of updates. I'd suggest turning off Net Notify in the Options, that could resolve the problem.

Bob.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 8/5/2008, 4:37 PM
I've run Vegas happily on a laptop with 256MB ( only 192MB available to apps). Oddly, I only ever had problems on thgis laptop after attempting to up the RAM to 1GB - not happy. 95% OK with one stick of half-gig.

geoff
cchoy wrote on 8/6/2008, 3:04 PM
There's only one Vegas running. I've turned off net notify and the dang media manager that I never use anyways. No dice.

Thanks for the suggestions though...

Arg.

I'll keep trying to figure this out. However, I've just booted up my old Vegas 5 and it's doing it too.... any problems with Windows XP updates?
jbolley wrote on 8/7/2008, 7:26 AM
Are you sure it's vegas using all the resources? Is there any chance you have an antivirus or spyware software that's causing this?
Press ctrl shift esc and sort by CPU. What's that look like?

Jesse
rraud wrote on 8/7/2008, 8:12 AM
Shut down ALL apps running in the background and see if that helps. Antivirus apps, especially Norton, are known to cause problems with DAWs.
Knowing that both versions of Vegas cause problems, it's likely another app., utility or process' is taxing the CPU and/or not playing nice with Vegas.
Maybe check to the sound card settings too.
cchoy wrote on 8/7/2008, 3:13 PM
Wonk.

So the good news is things are working now. I disabled my modem and virus scanner and the media browser, and messed with Vegas general preferences a bunch.

The bad news is I'm not sure exactly which step fixed the problem.

Thanks a whole lot to all for help!