First project was crashing on render with build 636 so I went back to 550 and had to do the project over. Hoping it was just a freak occurrence, I updated to 636 again and tried to render a second project and 75% of the way through the render, Vegas just disappeared! It apparently doesn't like my Nivdia GTX 1070 graphics card.
I had a successful render after updating the Nvidia graphics driver to version 472.84; hopefully that's the answer.
I upgraded to driver version 512.96 per post below...
I had a successful render after updating the Nvidia graphics driver to version 472.84; hopefully that's the answer.
Advice is a newer one, look
I upgraded to driver version 512.96 per post below...
@Hamilton53 Did it help?
Vegas - Help - Driver update will help keep that up to date
Or Geforce Experience https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/geforce-experience/
It seem to. I didn't experience any more render crashes after upgradeing my graphics card driver. I rendered successfully about 5 times. I used the menu option to look for driver updates and it suggested 472.84, however another post pointed my to 512.96 and I used that one.
Okay, it locked up on me again today at 85% of the render...
I've never had render issues with any other update. Additionally, the play back during editing seems less smooth and choppy. I've seen enough.
@Hamilton53 Hi, can you go to your icon at the top, click it - My Profile, & fill in your Signature with your Vegas version, Windows version & system specs, full name of CPU, GPU, & amount of RAM etc. this will then show at the bottom of the comments 👍 (see mine & other peoples at the bottom of comments) thanks.
Also can you show what media you're using & the render template you're using,
There's a tool called MediaInfo, download it, it's free https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
After downloading, right click on the media in your Windows folder, open MediaInfo, choose Text from the View option, select all, copy & paste in a comment here,
No intention to steal this thread but I'm having this same issue with my GTX3070 (never had a problem prior to latest vegas build) I'm currently updating the driver to version 512.96 by clean install and will see what happens.
General
Complete name : D:\WEDDINGS\EMMA + DREW\1.BRIDE PREP\1.BRIDE PREP (10).MP4
Format : XAVC
Codec ID : XAVC (XAVC/mp42/iso2)
File size : 160 MiB
Duration : 12 s 0 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 112 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2022-01-19 01:05:27
Tagged date : UTC 2022-01-19 01:05:27
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings : CABAC / 2 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 2 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 12 s 0 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 96.6 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 100.0 Mb/s
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 2 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.466
Stream size : 138 MiB (86%)
Encoded date : UTC 2022-01-19 01:05:27
Tagged date : UTC 2022-01-19 01:05:27
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Metas : 3
Codec configuration box : avcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : PCM
Format settings : Big / Signed
Codec ID : twos
Duration : 12 s 0 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 2.20 MiB (1%)
Encoded date : UTC 2022-01-19 01:05:27
Tagged date : UTC 2022-01-19 01:05:27
You are having hangs on render with NVENC?
You have a different GPU.
Same here. Countless crashes while rendering. Sometimes I am able to render two short pieces, and on the third crashing again, but there is no pattern. Seems like the AVC compression renders more often than the HEVC compression of mp4, no pattern there neither.
And not only while rendering... If I look a minute to a preview playing, the system crashes, the sound often keeps playing and the video stops. You can then only close the program, hope you have a backup and start Vegas again. The server where all those error-messages are landing must be overflowing.
I have worked on a project for more than a week (still not ready), when it should have been 3 days. Note to my self: don't blindly upgrade when you are working on a project.
Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 super, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor at 4.20 GHz, 32 GByte ram. Windows 11 pro, latest build.
@Hamilton53 Hi, can you go to your icon at the top, click it - My Profile, & fill in your Signature with your Vegas version, Windows version & system specs, full name of CPU, GPU, & amount of RAM etc. this will then show at the bottom of the comments 👍 (see mine & other peoples at the bottom of comments) thanks.
Also can you show what media you're using & the render template you're using,
There's a tool called MediaInfo, download it, it's free https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
After downloading, right click on the media in your Windows folder, open MediaInfo, choose Text from the View option, select all, copy & paste in a comment here,
Done - Included a image of what a typical render would look like; often 7-9 tracks
Mark's issue seems to stem from broken NVIDIA decoding based on another thread. Since Bruggeling is also using NVIDIA cards try going to file i/o and setting hardware decoder to none and see if you can get through a render.
(Mark, you can also upload images to the forum- it's the up arrow next to the smiley face)
I have an Intel CPU and iGPU so haven't experienced these issues, but have had problems in the past with NVDEC and Vegas with certain types of media. Do update to the latest NVIDIA Studio driver if you haven't already.
Okay RogerS, we'll try that; The only video files I have to work with compiled with the encoder set to Nvidia GTX1070; So the issue is intermittent. However when I compiled with the File IO set to "None" it actually compile in less time. Maybe it was using some temp files it created on the first compile...
I use it with this setting for a while and see if I get better results. Thanks for the suggestion - Mark
I think you mean decoder not encoder here.
I don't think there are any temp files created but the decoder is inefficient and your CPU is fast. GPU decoding support should improve over time for non-Intel GPUs. Glad you can at least complete renders now.