XP upgrade ok, Vegas not ok

SydneyV wrote on 10/14/2001, 3:19 AM

Just upgraded my notebook from Win98 to Windows XP final. The upgrade went well, apart from Vegas 2.0d which now stutters when recording audio, making it completely unusable. It originally also stuttered during playback until I configured the playback buffer to 2 seconds.

I keep Win2000 on another partition and I've had similar troubles using Vegas with it. In fact I only boot to Win98 to use Vegas these days. Wish I didn't have to.

Is this problem fixable or is it a hardware limitation? What can I try tweaking?

Hardware is Sony Vaio PCG-F590 PIII 750Mhz w/192MB RAM and 10GB avail HD space. Soundcard is Yahama DS-XG.

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mbmjk wrote on 10/14/2001, 11:59 AM

I just got a new Gateway with XP, and low and behold, I can't do squat with Vegas. Let me know if you hear of any fixes.

Rednroll wrote on 10/14/2001, 12:39 PM

I believe the latest update of Vegas is supported under XP. I've heard of other users using it also on XP systems. You need to download v2.0h from the downloads update section of this website.

Regards,
Brian Franz

SydneyV wrote on 10/14/2001, 7:24 PM

I've just installed the 2.0h update and it made no difference, recording is still stuttering.

On this same machine under Win98 I've been able to playback 20 tracks with multiple effects busses and yet still record new tracks without problems. Now under XP, even projects with only 2 tracks and no effects can not record new tracks! Surely there MUST be something that can be tweaked??

FadeToBlack wrote on 10/14/2001, 7:36 PM

billybk wrote on 10/14/2001, 8:00 PM

You say you have had similar problems running W2K
as well as XP. Did you also upgrade your sound card
drivers to W2K/XP as well as the OS. If your sound card
drivers are not W2K/XP compliant you are probably out
of luck. Can you get any other audio programs working
in W2K/XP with your sound card?

Billy Buck

Chienworks wrote on 10/14/2001, 9:12 PM

Speaking as a computer systems manager, i wouldn't be concerned
with whether Vegas works with XP or not. My concern is how well Vegas
runs under Linux with Windows emulation.

After following closely all of Microsoft's new licensing and upgrade plans
(or should i say lack of upgrade), my company has made the executive
decision to never move to XP. We will continue using 98SE until such
time as we simply can't function anymore, and then move to Linux. In
quite a few cases we're already running Linux, and we have several
totally Microsoft free computers with very happy users.

I could go on for many kilobytes about the horrific evils of XP, but i'll
just direct you all to http://www.infoworld.com/printlinks where you can
read about it all for yourselves. Hopefully most software companies will
be releasing native code for Linux soon. Hopefully SonicFoundry will be
among them!

Rednroll wrote on 10/14/2001, 9:46 PM

Yeah, that's a tough road to take. I've heard that Linux is a very good stable system. Just like Beta is better than VHS, but we all know that story. I wouldn't expect too many software companies to invest resources in developing something that they may only sell 1 or 2 copies on. I think the ball is really in Linux's hands. Do some marketing. I don't see anywhere you can buy a PC pre-loaded with Linux at Best Buy or Circuit City. I think it's up to Linux to push and prove to everyone that they have the superior OS and get some people to invest in them, so they can market their product. That's a pretty tough task with the Microsoft empire built up to where it is. I wish them luck though.

SydneyV wrote on 10/14/2001, 10:13 PM

The sound card drivers are native to XP, likewise my Win2000 drivers. Audio DOES playback and record perfectly in my other applications, such as Sound Forge.

SydneyV wrote on 10/14/2001, 11:23 PM

I checked the XP device manager and my BIOS and everything seems correct. XP has installed native ATAPI drivers and it's reporting that my current transfer mode is UltraDMA Mode 2. I tried turning off write-caching, though that made no difference.

But here's something really weird I just noticed - in one project when recording under XP the stuttering occurs exactly at every second starting at 4 seconds in - the meter pauses at "4.0000", "5.0000", "6.0000" etc. What might this indicate?

SydneyV wrote on 10/17/2001, 5:15 AM

It appears this thread is dead, but anyhow, in case this happens to someone else, here's how I solved my problem. I switched off the "show waveform while recording" and now Vegas 2.0h will record under XP without stuttering every one second. Of course now I can't preview the waveform as I record, but it will have to do. Can anyone explain why doing THIS solved the problem?

RickZ wrote on 10/17/2001, 8:17 AM

>>>
UltraDMA Mode 2 . .
If you have newer ATA-66 or ATA-100, this should be UltraDMA Mode 4.
Also, double check drivers for disk and video to make sure they are up to date for XP.

I recently added W2K SP2 as second OS to WinME, and had to get new drivers for everything. But after doing so, W2K really cooks. SF5 and VA2.0 run great.

Regards,
Rick Z

Jdodge wrote on 10/17/2001, 3:45 PM

Hello SydneyV,

Turning that feature off affects the processing by the display adapter. Often times, when you get glitching on playback or recording the fault can be traced back to your video card. Make sure you have updated the display adapter as well. You can also test this by setting up the record, begin your session, minimize Vegas so its just sitting in the taskbar, and record. Not getting the glitching? Then it probably has to do with the display adapter...

Hope this helps.