Well, this feels like a "ready for prime time" Ver. 17.

 NOW, to those who dislike subscriptions, listen: Vegas gives you best of both worlds, IOW, you can rent and THEN buy, or you can rent for the three months leading up to the next yearly upgrade cycle, so you don't feel you "bought the damned thing twice." I feel your pain, I don't agree with your non strategic purchasing. NOW YOU KNOW.

So, without paying more, I'm getting the upgrade (I'm on 365) paying about 20/mo. and that means $240/year. About what the normal buy and upgrade person pays (a bit more, not much).

AND, I get the upgrade whether I'm ready with my upgrade cash or not.

AND I can switch over, easily, to the higher levels of the program

AND I can just decide to buy

AND subscriptions get new people more easily INTO the program and a better user base THUS more solid foundation for the company and better for everyone, WIN/WIN. Some of you non entrepreneurs don't really see past your own nose, the company does well, the program does well.

Downside? YES!! Can't use 365 on more than one machine. I'm damned unhappy about that. FIX THAT VEGAS!!

Anyway, KUDOS to Gary and team, yes, some of this is mere improvement to 17, but I'm damned happy about that. It is MUCH smoother, better playback, plays back out of the box, I love the cursor memory - upon opening cursor comes back to the point you saved/closed program, so nice. (Ok, it could have happened in Ver. 3, but I'm damned happy).

About ten more things, at least, I'm damned happy about. I'm one of those that want stability over bells and whistles. I think I got both, and I'm damned happy about that.

Did I mention: I'm damned happy ?
 

New graphics card drivers uploaded and also does not work

klapkowscy.com Those start up crashes does not look as if your Graphic card drivers are the problem. That seem to be the cause of something else.

klapkowscy.com Te awarie podczas uruchamiania nie wyglądają tak, sprawy rządowe sterowniki graficznej. To poznawać się w razie innego.

Vegas 17 runs normally and wonderfully without freezing and the 18 does not even start

@klapkowscy.com: Please submit the error reports with your name in the information field so we can find it in our database.

@klapkowscy.com : Prosimy o przesyłanie raportów o błędach z Twoim imieniem i nazwisk w polu informacyjnym, abyśmy mogli je znaleźć w naszej bazie danych.

I was already sending and the silence blew me away

Extra Information

Problem Description
   Application Name:    VEGAS Pro
   Application Version: Version 18.0 (Build 284)
   Problem:             Unmanaged Exception (0xc0000005)
   Fault Module:        C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 18.0\vegas180.exe
   Fault Address:       0x00007FFCF60509F0
   Fault Offset:        0x00007FFCF60509F0

Fault Process Details
   Process Path:        C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 18.0\vegas180.exe
   Process Version:     Version 18.0 (Build 284)
   Process Description: VEGAS Pro
   Process Image Date:  2020-07-25 (Sat Jul 25) 02:25:58
 

@klapkowscy.com: This this point, I have not found any crash report with this information or with klapkowscy in the description, so I am unable to help you.

@klapkowscy.com (and anyone else who read this post as well), if you catch crash with PRS dialog box like this:

In the description, leave a name or keyword that is unique to you and/or your e-mail address and post here your notes, so that developers can find it on their database easily.

I sent it every time and every change ie.
1.Clean Installation without uninstalling vegas pro 17
2.clean installation after uninstalling vegas pro 17
3. clean installation after uninstalling add-ons