VEGAS Pro 18 wont start

kaylove wrote on 12/24/2022, 1:06 PM

When I launch the program, whether using the shortcut or launching from the file directory, it plays the splash screen and shows loading progress (initializing plugins, UI, etc.) but when it finishes loading and the splash screen goes away, the program never shows up. It appears in my background processes for a few moments but it quickly goes away. I've tried everything I can find including running as administrator, running a fresh install, updating (and rolling back) my graphics drivers, forcing the program to use my onboard intel GPU, but nothing seems to work. I'm using an AMD Radeon 590.

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Musicvid wrote on 12/24/2022, 2:13 PM

Did you download Vegas Pro 18 recently? Where from?

EricLNZ wrote on 12/24/2022, 8:52 PM

VP18 is part of the current HumbleBundle Magix/Vegas offering.

RogerS wrote on 12/25/2022, 3:25 AM

Can you see exactly where the loading progress stops?

kaylove wrote on 12/25/2022, 1:28 PM

Did you download Vegas Pro 18 recently? Where from?

i got it as part of a recent humble bundle

kaylove wrote on 12/25/2022, 1:29 PM

Can you see exactly where the loading progress stops?

it disappears after saying "initializing UI"

john_dennis wrote on 12/25/2022, 2:39 PM

@kaylove

Did the download manager successfully download and did you successfully install Vegas Pro 18 and Vegas Deep Learning Models installation files?

Dexcon wrote on 12/26/2022, 3:33 AM

The Radeon 590 shouldn't be a problem I would have thought - years ago I had Vegas Pro 18 working on an older computer running an AMD RX 480. The RX 590 was released in 2018 - is your computer also from that era and running at least an i5-xxxx for HD or i7-xxxx for 4K (or an AMD CPU equivalent) and with Windows 10? Also, has Vegas Pro 18 been installed on the C drive?

Recommended minimum specifications for Vegas Pro 18 at the time were likely to have been:

Operating system: Microsoft® Windows 10 (64-bit)

Processor: 6th Generation Intel Core i5 (or AMD equivalent) or better. 2.5 Ghz and 4 Core minimum. For 4K, 7th Generation Intel Core i7 (or AMD equivalent) or better. 3.0 Ghz and 8 Core minimum.

RAM: 8 GB RAM minimum (16 GB recommended; 32 GB recommended for 4K)

Hard drive space: Hard drive space: 1.5 GB hard-disk space for program installation; Solid-state disk (SSD) or high-speed multi-disk RAID for 4K media

Supported GPU

NVIDIA - NVIDIA® GeForce GTX or RTX 9XX series or higher with 4GB

AMD/ATI - AMD/ATI® Radeon with 4GB and VCE 3.0 or higher (Radeon Pro series with 8GB for HDR and 32 bit projects)

Intel - Intel® GPU HD Graphics 530 series or higher

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Cameras: Sony FDR-AX100E; GoPro Hero 11 Black Creator Edition

Installed: Vegas Pro 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22, HitFilm Pro 2021.3, DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0.3, BCC 2025, Mocha Pro 2025.0, NBFX TotalFX 7, Neat NR, DVD Architect 6.0, MAGIX Travel Maps, Sound Forge Pro 16, SpectraLayers Pro 11, iZotope RX11 Advanced and many other iZ plugins, Vegasaur 4.0

Windows 11

Dell Alienware Aurora 11:

10th Gen Intel i9 10900KF - 10 cores (20 threads) - 3.7 to 5.3 GHz

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB GDDR6 - liquid cooled

64GB RAM - Dual Channel HyperX FURY DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz

C drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD

D: drive: 4TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD (used for media for editing current projects)

E: drive: 2TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD

F: drive: 6TB WD 7200 rpm Black HDD 3.5"

Dell Ultrasharp 32" 4K Color Calibrated Monitor

 

LAPTOP:

Dell Inspiron 5310 EVO 13.3"

i5-11320H CPU

C Drive: 1TB Corsair Gen4 NVMe M.2 2230 SSD (upgraded from the original 500 GB SSD)

Monitor is 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz

fr0sty wrote on 12/26/2022, 4:41 AM

Other users have reported success with this issue by doing this:

I did reinstall of Visual Studio C++ and most recent Net Framework

Might be worth an uninstall/reinstall of VEGAS after doing this as well.

Last changed by fr0sty on 12/26/2022, 4:43 AM, changed a total of 1 times.

Systems:

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 8 core 16 thread at stock speed

64GB 3000mhz DDR4

Geforce RTX 3090

Windows 10

Laptop:

ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo 32GB (9980HK CPU, RTX 2060 GPU, dual 4K touch screens, main one OLED HDR)