Vegas Pro 18 runs out of memory when I try to render

Dopey_Dave wrote on 8/17/2020, 5:10 PM

I just upgraded to Vegas Pro 18 from 17. When I try to render a file, the product shows a modest amount of CPU and Memory usage, runs a bit then quickly spikes on memory usage, then displays a message the system is out of memory. I have a AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU with 16 GB of RAM. Any ideas on how to get it to work would be appreciated.

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Former user wrote on 8/17/2020, 6:05 PM

Could be the memory leak with Vegas software. It's to do with the External GPU, so if you were to disable it when you rendered you would not get the memory leak. It's said to only happen with certain files. However that memory leak was also in VP17, so if you don't have the same problem in vp17 maybe it's something else

Dopey_Dave wrote on 8/17/2020, 6:26 PM

Thanks!! Would like to try. How do I turn off the External GPU. Is there a setting in the software?

Former user wrote on 8/17/2020, 6:30 PM

Options/Preferences/VIdeo and turn off "gpu acceleration of video" and restart

Dopey_Dave wrote on 8/17/2020, 7:50 PM

Followed your instructions, and the file rendered. Thanks!

fr0sty wrote on 8/18/2020, 1:27 AM

Turn GPU acceleration back on. Go into the help menu and use the driver update utility to make sure you have the right driver version installed for VEGAS. From there, set your dynamic RAM preview in the video tab of preferences to "0" just before rendering. You can have it set higher while editing, if you need DRAM Preview, but always set it back to 0 before rendering, that should fix your bug until the team can get it patched.

Turning off the GPU works, but you are losing a ton of performance by doing so.

bitman wrote on 8/18/2020, 12:23 PM

@fr0sty dynamic RAM preview setting should be renamed "render roulette" where you place your bets 🎲

PhilippZ wrote on 8/18/2020, 3:36 PM

I have the same issue, but unfortunately not only in rendering. If I use the DRAM for Playback, I get frame drops and vegas is crashing. So I cant use VP18. In VP17 I have no Problems. Unfortunately I dont get Amy answer from the Support since 2 weeks ...

fr0sty wrote on 8/18/2020, 5:32 PM

^Make sure you check your spam folders, many times users do get contacted by support but don't see the message, and if they don't reply within 10 days the ticket gets closed. So, be sure you haven't missed their response.

PhilippZ wrote on 8/19/2020, 5:41 AM

^Make sure you check your spam folders, many times users do get contacted by support but don't see the message, and if they don't reply within 10 days the ticket gets closed. So, be sure you haven't missed their response.

Thank you, but I dont have a Spam Filter activated. :-/

joshua-noesser wrote on 1/7/2021, 11:35 AM

When are they going to fix this? Seems like as they release new versions they stopped fixing the problems on the old one. I can't even run a render of any kind of a older project. I want to take advantage of the new features of something I am working on right now but i can't get it to render even without using the gps.

I guess back to 16 for now

j-v wrote on 1/7/2021, 11:46 AM

@joshua-noesser
What is your used hardware, CPU,GPU plus driverversions.
Show here a screenshot of the content of your Help/ Check for Driver Updates

joshua-noesser wrote on 1/7/2021, 12:21 PM

@j-v

See attacheed

j-v wrote on 1/7/2021, 1:01 PM

You did not answer my other question, so look onto your desired driver for use in the newest Vegas software.
There you will find this one

Install this one as " a clean install" and you have the best and the latest as adviced by the program itself.
After doing that show here your Options/Preference/Video and Options/Preference/File I/O

VEGASDerek wrote on 1/7/2021, 2:30 PM

Since you do have an older processor, if you have not done so, deactivate your Intel GPU as it could be causing a problem.