Zippy, Did you ever get the freezing fixed

DataMeister wrote on 9/24/2003, 11:54 AM
Zippy,
I was wondering if you ever solved the problem with freezing that you were having when playing certain CPU intensive clips. That thread was back in August.

I seem to be having the same problem. It only occures on full res previews which I didn't used to use because I couldn't fit it on the monitor. I haven't decided yet if it is a CPU overload problem or a HD overload problem. Maybe it's an IDE buss mastering problem. I don't know.

I do know that on my old system I could run full res and it would just slow the preview down to 1 or 2 fps. Not freeze the interface. This system is 3 times faster and shouldn't be freezing simply from lack of power.

JBJones

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DataMeister wrote on 9/24/2003, 10:25 PM
Just a little bump up the list

JBJones
ZippyGaloo wrote on 9/25/2003, 12:00 AM
Nope. Still freezing! I've given up on trying to get it to work correctly without freezing. I know it probably has something to do with the processing power required for non-rendered material, because once it's rendered it plays smoothly (as expected).
DataMeister wrote on 9/26/2003, 11:08 PM
Ok Zippy,

I finaly solved the freezing problem on my computer. It is in the Motherboard drivers. I'm not sure which exact ones (sound, IDE, etc.) But somehow it has to do with "older" drivers corupting the newer ones.

I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe which has the same nForce2 chipset as your MSI K7N2G-ILSR. There is a lot of varied information on nForcershq.com about the recent driver problems from nVidias May (2.41 and 2.42) release.

After some reasoning and deducing I decided it must be related to either the IDE drivers or memory managers or perhaps the graphics drivers. nVidia has some instructions (which I forgot about during my ordeal) on their web site for removing the bad drivers located here. http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/nForce/Recovery_instructions.zip

So I uninstalled everything related to nVidia and tried Vegas again after a reboot and using the default Microsoft drivers and a basic VGA driver. However it still had the same problem. But then I noticed that some kind of Audio driver had reinstalled it self in the boot process. So I uninstalled it again and rebooted.

The same thing happened twice and once again the audio drivers were installed again. That became very irritating so I tried removing the audio drivers and reinstalling the newest nVidia files (2.45) before rebooting. This fixed the problem with Vegas, except for the fact that some of the driver files didn't load properly and I ended up with corupt video drivers that wouldn't reinstall for anything.

I ended up having to do a System Restore to put everything back to normal. I went through this whole process twice trying to figure out different ways to get the drivers to load back up properly, but with no sucess.

Finally I decided to uninstall all nVidia drivers and run a reinstall of Windows to repair any damaged files. This seemed to do the trick although I needed to install the official newest nForce2 and graphic card drivers. Plus do a few Windows Updates again.

I don't know if you would end up with this same hassle upon deinstall/reinstall since you have an MSI and I have a ASUS. But everthing runs basicly clean at the moment.

The process was definitely a pain in the rear (so so speak) but things are much nicer now.

JBJones
DataMeister wrote on 9/30/2003, 4:03 PM
I made that last post over the weekend so I just wanted to bump it up in case Zippy wanted to see it and didn't get a chance. It was all the way on page 3 at number 85. Whew. Lot of activity the last few days.

JBJones
Jsnkc wrote on 9/30/2003, 4:07 PM
Just when it was getting nice and Zippy-free in here you had to go and ask him a question to bring him back :)
ZippyGaloo wrote on 10/1/2003, 4:34 AM
Didn't work. Bogus solution!! VEGAS IS STILL JUNK!!!