Very Poor Perfomance After Upgrade (build 403)

Benjy wrote on 5/6/2023, 5:25 PM

Hi,

I've been using this program for literally years now. Now it was always not the best in performance when it comes to bigger projects, but I have to say- the latest update (build 403) is probably the worst regression in performance I've ever seen in any form of software.

It's so horribly slow that it's literally unusable with bigger projects. If you have a 'huge' project, good luck even moving media on the timeline (literally anything sound files, videos, etc). When it auto saves I have to wait 20~ seconds (no joke, I used to not even pay attention to these before).

It forces me to have 2 instances in parallel, 1 fresh where I edit the video pieces and add media to (if i add more than a few medias there it starts to deteriorate as well, not as bad as the main one though) and another where I paste the finished edit in with the rest of my edits / timelines.

If the allocated resources were crap or if my PC was ancient, I'd understand- but this is not the case.

Am I the only one that noticed this huge drop in performance?

 

I'm running the below on my system:

* Vegas 20.0 (403)

* win10 Build 19044

* Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900K CPU @ 3.70GHz, 3696 Mhz, 10 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s)

* NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (drivers version: 531.79, release May 2nd 2023)

* 32.0 GB RAM

 

Have there been other reports in regards to big performance drops / performance degradation besides this one? I tried looking around and couldn't see anything apparent.

Thanks.

Comments

RogerS wrote on 5/6/2023, 5:28 PM

No, did testing on the benchmarks in my signature on my two systems and haven't found any big changes.

In general I'd stick to the NVIDIA Studio Driver. There could be a regression in the latest gaming driver: haven't tested it and don't intend to.

Usually media is the biggest factor, can you paste in MediaInfo for what you're using?

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 5/7/2023, 6:23 PM

No mention of the driver version for the igpu built into the 10900k... I think there's a uhd630 built into that one. 101.2115 looks like its still the latest driver. Make sure it's enabled in bios and select it as the decoder in Vegas i/o prefs after the Intel video driver is installed.

Terrance wrote on 5/7/2023, 8:08 PM

For what its worth I have a lower spec system and the preview is noticeably less realtime than before. On the flip side I've not yet had the new 403 build crash. Usually if I set the quality to full and hit play I would risk that it will suddenly freeze and then eventually the error screen. Now it'll freeze but comes back to life after a wait. Albeit it freezes more often. Lowering the quality of the preview doesn't seem to make as much of a difference in playback as it used to. But not crashing is good.

RogerS wrote on 5/8/2023, 4:45 AM

In general for performance try to compare new versions with a known-good old project. Media is a huge variable even with the best hardware.

If there's a big sudden drop in performance or stability, try a reset. https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-can-i-reset-vegas-pro-to-default-settings--104646/ This helped my laptop quite a bit that was struggling for some reason earlier in 20's lifecycle.