Vegas Keeps Crashing!

Peter-Wydooghe wrote on 8/6/2022, 4:33 PM

Hi, Vegas Pro used crash a lot before, but is doing it even more now (I have an i7 machine, 11gen CPU, 48GB of ram with GeForce 3070 graphics card)??? If anyone has any pointers, that would be great as this is getting ridiculous with having to restart practically every 10-15 mins from crashing - it's becoming unusable. I have updated to the latest studio drivers for the graphics card and set the dynamic ram setting in Vegas to 75% (leaving about 12GB for windows system ops), and Vegas is updated to the latest version. This shouldn't be happening in my view but it is. Is anyone else having these issues?

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jetdv wrote on 8/6/2022, 4:57 PM

Which version of VEGAS Pro?

Why set the dynamic ram to 75%? Should be more like 5%.

Video driver up to date?

Are you getting an error message? If yes, what are the details?

What are you doing when it crashes?

What type of media are you using?

VEGASDerek wrote on 8/6/2022, 5:41 PM

Dynamic ram to 75%? Yikes. No matter why you are having problems.

Vincent-Brice wrote on 8/7/2022, 3:43 PM

Dynamic ram to 75%? Yikes. No matter why you are having problems.


@Peter-Wydooghe I would be very interested to see whether reducing your DRP makes any difference to your crashes. I have heard so much negative stuff about having this set too high, but I have never noticed any impact on my system. I experience constant crashes if I don't have Legacy AVC Decoder enabled but once it is enabled I have no crashes, it's very stable, no matter how much DRP I assign. Not being funny, this is a genuine question, but what is the point of having RAM if you don't use it? Like you I would make sure I keep an amount free, in my case 8 gigs. My timeline is so much smoother with a good chunk allocated to preview. And I use shift B a lot. But I'd be interested to know whether turning it to 5% stops your crashes.

Gigabyte Aorus Pro V2 motherboard, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, Gigabyte AMD RX 6800XT, 64GB Corsair Vengeance 3600MHz ("Ryzen tuned", whatever that is), 500GB Corsair Force MP600 Gen 4 M.2 C:drive for windows and programs, 500GB Samsung Sata SSD EVO D:drive for video files, 1TB Samsung Sata SSD EVO E:drive for all other data, Gigabyte Aorus Waterforce 360 CPU cooler, Thermaltake Core P5 TG open case, Contour ShuttleXpress.

Windows 11 Pro 24H2, Vegas Pro 22 (Build 248)

Peter-Wydooghe wrote on 8/7/2022, 6:20 PM

Hi Everyone, thanks for the comments! Using Vegas 19 (build 643. So yes, for the 75% ram setting, this seemed ok as it gives windows plenty of room to do background threads and other stuff it likes to do while giving Vegas tons of room to work with (there's about 12 GB's left after this). But Vegas seems to crash in the middle of play back a lot but it's nowhere specific in the timeline? So maybe you're right Vincent, will put the legacy AVC Decoder on and see if that helps. Will also play for the DRP setting if it continues after :). Thanks all for you help, much appreciated!

Peter-Wydooghe wrote on 8/7/2022, 6:56 PM

PS, can't find the setting for the legacy AVC decoder? :)

Former user wrote on 8/7/2022, 9:15 PM

@Peter-Wydooghe Options - Preferences - File I/O

RogerS wrote on 8/7/2022, 10:24 PM

DRP is not the only use Vegas has for ram- it will also be needing that 12GB you reserved for everything else your computer is doing. Set it to a reasonable value like 5 or 10%.

Anyway before switching decoders and foregoing GPU decoding, what media are you using and it is known to work well for editing in Vegas? Try sharing MediaInfo: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/