VP15 crashing when starting another instance of Vegas

Martin L wrote on 2/26/2018, 6:52 AM

I have Vegas Pro 15 and also build 311. All works fine. But since the first version of Vegas 15 the program keeps crashing almost every time I start another instance of Vegas. What crashes is the the instance that is already open and the new instance opens successfully without a project.

I have managed to open two instances of Vegas sometimes if the first one doesn't have a project loaded. Then sometimes I can open up two instances and then load projects onto them. But now whatever I do Vegas crashes on opening another instance.

Any known solution?

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Peter_P wrote on 2/26/2018, 9:38 AM

Hi Martin,

I'm also running B311. Just tried to run three instances of Vp15 B311 and have noch problem even with an UHDp30 preview running in each instance

Martin L wrote on 2/26/2018, 9:40 AM

Hmmm...

Peter_P wrote on 2/26/2018, 9:48 AM

What kind of system are you using and what footage?

Martin L wrote on 2/26/2018, 10:00 AM

Windows 7 Pro, i7, 24GB RAM, and mainly mp4 files from Canon, DJI and GoPro cameras. AMD RX480 GPU, Mackie soundcard, and so on.

 

 

Peter_P wrote on 2/26/2018, 10:33 AM

i7 - what ?

I'm running Win10 1709 on an i7-8700k with 32GB RAM.

Can you just start two instances of Vp15 B311 without any footage loaed?

Martin L wrote on 2/27/2018, 2:12 AM

i7 980 3,33GHz

And, yes, that is the problem. But sometimes it does work. Actually yesterday at the 9th or 1oth try and same amount of crashes I could open two instances at the same time. Once that is done there seems to be no problem laoding big projects on each and even render both at the same time. It is just at the opening stage that Vegas fails.

It also happenes to me when trying to insert a nested project. That never works without a crash for me. So I've given that up.

Peter_P wrote on 2/27/2018, 2:41 AM

Did you ever try to upgrade to Win10, or better make a clean Win10 new installation ?

Martin L wrote on 2/27/2018, 2:50 AM

No, I haven't. Is that any good? I've heard many bad things with Vegas and Win10. I really like Windows 7 and many computer teqnicians have advised me to stick with it. But I know Microsoft thas dropped support, or will drop it soon. So I guess perhaps it's time to consider moving up to Windows 10. Or?

Peter_P wrote on 2/27/2018, 3:34 AM

I can not report of any problems I have with Vegas on Win10 that would not occur with Win7. However, my video-work system is only connected to the internet when required, to prevent ongoing windows updates that might bring problems.  In addition I have disabled the automatic driver update in Win10.

If you got the time and probably a second SSD you could give it a try on this second SSD and easily switch back to the old if required. Else you must save your system as an image to allow the way back.

Martin L wrote on 2/27/2018, 3:47 AM

Ok. I will look into that. Thanks.