Why Can't Vegas to run with current nVidia drivers

Guitartoys wrote on 11/23/2013, 2:04 PM

For the love of Pete.

Why can't Sony seem to get Vegas to work with anything even close to a modern release of nVidia drivers.

I've got dual GXT 580 in SLI, which to some extent don't even matter, as Sony can only seem to use 1 at a time.

I'm running a current version of Window 7 x64, I have the most recent version of Vegas.

Why the heck do I have to run version old versions? With every update of Vegas I pray they will fix it.

The current nVidia driver version is 331.82, and it seems like 296.10 is the most reliable, with some folks having 301.42 and 314.22 working.

I mean is Sony, which I understand is "supposed" to be a big company, one would think it would be reasonable to assume, that any time they release a new update to the program, they would test it with the current nVidia and Radeon driver.

Otherwise, quit spewing GPU support on the site.

This is crap.

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VideoFreq wrote on 1/22/2014, 2:51 PM

Yeah, I had a Quadro FX. Overpriced and underperformed. By nVidia's own admission - designed for the high end price user. Use the correct driver. My QFX is sitting on a shelf gathering dust. Anyone want it?

TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/22/2014, 8:57 PM

Man, way to necro a thread. :)

It's my understanding the "pro" cards are built/coded for accuracy, not speed. So you will get less glitches.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/23/2014, 7:09 AM

> Posted by: TheHappyFriar "It's my understanding the "pro" cards are built/coded for accuracy, not speed. So you will get less glitches."

That's the real question. What price do you place on stability? I have a Quadro 4000 with the latest nVidia drivers and it works fine with Vegas Pro 12.0 with GPU acceleration on my Windows 7 64-bit home-built computer. The nVidia 320.00 Quadro drivers did not work with RAM Preview so I backed off to earlier drivers until nVidia came out with new ones. Now the new ones work. Sony made no changes to Vegas Pro while the drivers broke and then worked again so this is clearly an nVidia problem not a Sony one.

> Reply by: Guitartoys "It just kills me to have to purge out new drivers for old. "

Why is it "killing you"? Unless there is some compelling reason to upgrade your driver (like a new feature that you need), you should stay on whatever is stable for you. If that's a two year old driver to go with your two year old graphics card then that's what you should be using. If an old driver works, and the Sony software hasn't changed, then the new driver must be the problem so don't use it or go complain to nVidia.

Here is my advice from personal experience: Go to the web site of the manufacturer of your graphics card and download the latest nVidia driver that they have tested with and use that. Anything newer than that is playing with fire because not even the card manufacturer saw it fit to redistribute. I've had problems with drivers before and when I go back to using the driver from the card manufacturer it usually clears them up.

~jr

ddm wrote on 1/23/2014, 12:28 PM

I have had some interesting results as far as Vegas 12 and Nvidia drivers go. I used to have a 550Ti card which ran fine, seemed to have some moderate gains in preview and renders. On the advice of Old Smoke, I bought a 570 card and did not really experience any improvement over my 550Ti, at least under Windows 8, which does not support the older, preferred nvidia drivers. I can dual boot to Windows 7 and use the old 296 driver on that setup, which did improve performance under most cases. I prefer using Windows 8 so I kind of decided to live with the non performance and went about my business. When that new Sony benchmark test became available, I downloaded all the files and decided to once again see how the latest nvidia drivers in Windows 8 (now 8.1) fared against the old driver on Windows 7. Much to my surprise, I was getting almost identical numbers in both worlds, I haven't tried upgrading the Windows 7 drivers, I still use the old one but on the Windows 8.1 boot I have the very latest non beta driver installed. Finally feeling good about my 570 purchase.

larry-peter wrote on 1/23/2014, 1:19 PM

I'm still primarily using VP11, but my system with a QuadroFX1800 (297.03Quadro-Tesla Driver) on a four year old i7 920 2.66Ghz outperforms (in timeline playback) my other 3930k system with a 560ti w/ 296 driver.

Spec-wise it doesn't make sense to me. 64 CUDA cores on the QFX vs.384 on the 560. 768MB memory vs. 1.2GB. And the 1800 is old-tech, bottom-of-the-line Quadro. But with GPU accel. on, I can get Full/Best external preview with the Quadro at 29.97 with AVCHD footage. Lots of stuttering on the 560. Win7 on both.