Vegas Pro 13 Crashes at Startup

djehall wrote on 4/17/2014, 9:47 PM

Hi,

My Vegas Pro 13 is crashing at startup. I've tried re-installing, shutting down anti-virus, updating every driver I can think of, to no avail. I noticed in another thread there was some problems with a GoPro dll, but I've never had GoPro on my system. This is the first time I've ahd problems with any Sony software.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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olmnut wrote on 7/1/2014, 12:58 PM

When I go to device manager, all it says on the driver is Intel (R) HD Graphics, I'm assuming I have to download from here? :

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Graphics&ProductLine=Laptop+graphics+drivers&ProductProduct=2nd+Generation+Intel%C2%AE+Core%E2%84%A2+Processors+with+Intel%C2%AE+HD+Graphics+3000%2f2000

OldSmoke wrote on 7/1/2014, 2:26 PM

Maybe if you can tell us which processor you have we can find out which graphic you have, I assume you are using the integrated GPU of the processor. This started with Sandybridge, then Ivybridge and now Haswell.

olmnut wrote on 7/1/2014, 3:06 PM

So I went to Start>Run>dxdiag and under processor it says exactly:
Intel (R) Pentium (R) CPU G630 @ 2.70GHz (2CPUs), -2.7GHz

OldSmoke wrote on 7/1/2014, 3:27 PM

olmnut

I am not sure Vegas does support this processor's GPU for acceleration. My first i7-2600K had a HD3000 which was supported but wasn't really powerful enough to see any advantage. The CTRL+SHIFT didn't work either? You cant get Vegas to startup and disable GPU acceleration?
You said it worked before? With VP13?

olmnut wrote on 7/1/2014, 3:39 PM

When I first installed vegas, it did not work. However, it did launch successfully one time. The thing that baffles me is that the demo version worked fine. The CTRL+SHIFT has not worked either. How would I get vegas to startup without GPU acceleration? Is there a way?

OldSmoke wrote on 7/1/2014, 3:52 PM

Usually pressing CTRL+SHIFT when you launch VP does reset everything back to its initial stage. There might be a way to alter the registry key to disable GPU acceleration but I am not at my PC at the moment.

olmnut wrote on 7/1/2014, 4:05 PM

Hmm okay, well thanks for your help, now I can understand the situation a bit more. I'll try and fish around for a solution, but if you find anything do you think you could notify me?

Thanks!

OldSmoke wrote on 7/1/2014, 4:26 PM

If you really want good GPU support you may want to look into getting a second HD6970 or GTX580 off eBay. That will help you much more the integrated GPU ever will. I'll check if I can find anything in the registry.

olmnut wrote on 7/1/2014, 4:54 PM

Okay I'll look into getting one in the future, and thank you :)

olmnut wrote on 7/1/2014, 6:07 PM

I RESOLVED THE ISSUE! :D

I right clicked the shortcut to the editor, and clicked properties. In the "Compability" tab, I changed it to windows 7 and it now works perfectly

OldSmoke wrote on 7/1/2014, 7:31 PM

That's great! I am glad you solved it. I never had to that compatibility thing, not on any of my machines which is why I never would have thought about that.

D Coblentz wrote on 10/2/2014, 6:57 PM

It's now October, so hopefully people see this. I just purchased the upgrade to Vegas 13 a few days ago, and obviously had the same start-up crash problem. I found that the executable called sfvstserver.exe found in "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0\x86\" was the only real problem child that made it seem like the contents of the FileIO Plug-Ins folder was the problem. I simply cut it out (pasted it somewhere safe for later) and Vegas 13 starts up with no crashing now.

Hope this helps!

David
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fivestarmaster wrote on 12/21/2014, 10:30 AM

I've had this crashing issue when I've tried to open .veg files that were created with VP11 or 12.

Here's a fix: start VP13 as Administrator and you should be able to open the previous version file you want.

However, after doing this and saving to VP13 the VP12-created file STILL crashes VP13 when opened normally.

So, what I had to do was to start VP13 as Administrator, open the VP12-created file, open a second instance of VP13, copy and paste all the tracks from the VP12-created file to the second instance and save to a new file name.

Hey Sony... if you're paying attention to your forum... we REALLY shouldn't have to do this, should we?

Amature wrote on 4/4/2015, 5:18 PM

Running VP13 64bit on Win7 system. VP13 crashed on startup every time, hanging at "Initializing GPU...". This was an upgrade on a VP9 system.

I fixed it by holding down the Ctrl key and starting VP13 (based on a suggestion I saw in this thread). It took a long time... maybe a full minute to launch but it finally did with no errors. After that, I closed and re-launched... starts up fast and fine now, every time.

ziphler wrote on 4/12/2015, 6:23 AM

I'm running Windows 10 pro technical preview in which VP13 always crashed on render until build 10049 when it started working perfectly. That is until an update on April 9 2015 made it crash on start up so I uninstalled it and now cant re-install it. The error says

Error: -2147163964 occurred during installation

Module C:\program files\sony\vegasPro 13.0\x86\sfvstproxystubx86.dll failed to register.
HRESULT -2147024703. Contact support personnel

Same error occurs on several different VP13 builds exactly the same

Just thought I'd give sony guys a heads up though I expect microsoft will fix this with next update. Win 10 is a smoking OS, not like win 8, more like win 7 on steroids