I have no bloody idea what happened between yesterday and today but it's lousy.

I tried out the Vegas Pro 23 Trial, ran a test render on a 1hr 20m video, using the NVENC encoder.
Took only 40 minutes roughly.
Video was rendered in 1080P 60fps, your average stuff.

Pulled the trigger and upgraded fully to Vegas 23 Pro, and for some unknown reason, the same video, using the same parameters takes about 1hr 10 minutes to render.
What in gods good name!?

Now my pc is a beast...A BEAST i say.
64Gb DDR5 6000Mhz Ram
Ryzen 9950x3D
RTX 5090

Surely...SURELY, that cannot be right.
Right?

Average fps speed tops out at only 74fps now.
Yes my drivers updated.
Yes I switched to studio drivers.
Yes Vegas itself is updated.

And shamefully I admit, it's just your average gaming video.
Please for the love of god don't make me use premier pro, it's UI is anything but friendly or simple T_T