What footage are you using?

I have been using Vegas Pro 16 build 361 since it first came out, and the crashes of the computer program have been habit changing. As most of you have experienced the crashes, I suspect your left 'pinky and index' finger know of Ctrl S. I have tried various options not wanting to set my GPU acceleration of video processing to OFF, as has been recommended in various YouTube videos. Instead, I purchased a NVIDA 1660 GPU (6 Gbyte) card for $325. Wow, did that ever improve over my 2 Gbyte NVIDA 750, and the crashes did seem to occur less often. BUT they kept right on occurring, at what seemed to be when multiple tracks were being processed along with a complicated transition.

To make matters worse, I had talked my son into buying Vegas Pro 16 build 361. I was especially worried as he was going to run it on a Laptop. We had discussed this forums concerns along with others on the internet in trying to run Vegas Pro 16 on anything less than the fastest desktop. As it turns out, this laptop would crash with just 4 photos and some simple cross-fades! So, I tried to run Vegas Pro 16 361 on my Sufrace laptop, and it did a bit better, but for large 15 minute projects I had completed on my desktop, it also crashed. I could not even view a PLAY of the project. Of course the Rendering was out of the question on either of the laptops.

Now, what to do? I had 3 different computers that were crashing and my son's confidence in Vegas Pro 16 was very low and my confidence in recommending Vegas to anyone else had gone to zero. Being caught in this messy situation, I decided to go back to the YouTube video(s) that recommended the following for Vegas Pro 15 and decided to do the same suggestion for Vegas Pro 16:

Select "Options/Preferences/Video/GPU acceleration of video processing" then select "OFF". This simple change made all 3 computers, running the latest build 361, ( 2 very fast laptops and one extremely fast desktop (Nvida 1660) that were having continual crashing problems WORK much much better. In addition, if you look at the Window 10 Task Manager while Rendering you will notice that the GPU is still being used!! As a matter of fact my desktop showed levels of GPU usage running at times around 50%.

So, my question to Vegas is, "Why do you default to the GPU setting that causes so much pain to your users? What are we missing in rendering speed and are there any other aspects we compromise when making the Vegas Pro 16 work so much better?

thanks for any comments and help in understanding,

vic

When the program recognized your GPU as sufficent to help for acceleration the (most) effects it becomes anabled. But the program does not recognize your used drivers only the compatibility with the options in that GPU.
So if you installed not the right drivers to use the newest options of that GPU ( only with te best drivers) you will see (your) problems.