Vegas 7.0c locking up using 2 videocards

smithy

smithy

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I just recently upgraded my computer for HDV editing. I pulled out my old ATI 9700pro card and installed a nvidia quadro fx560 with breakout box and a nvidia 6200LE AGP card for use as a 3-monitor setup. I updated to the latest drivers from nvidia and deleted all my old ATI drivers. Now when I bring in M2T footage from my canon xha1 into my 1440x1080i 24p timeline it works fine for a couple of passes but it seems when my system is down to about 1150 ram it starts to jitter and eventually lockup the system. Any help would be great.

Amd x2 3800, XP SP2, 2gigs 3200ram Patriot. Cache is set at 3220.
 
Just dropped all the ati drivers and run only the nvidia drivers from their site. Could it be just that agp and pci-express x16 slots conflict? Is there any settings need to be changed in services settings under my computer/manage?
 
Vegas doesn't use the video card (or cards) at all, so they shouldn't affect its performance. If all you did for HDV editing was upgrade your video cards , then you didn't do anything which will really help (processor, processor, processor . . . and RAID) -- which is why I asked what else you might have done. Could be any number of things going on here.

You might try using Cineform intermediates for editing.
 
It could be the drivers for the card though. I updated my drivers on my old fx5200 card, and it screwed capturing with Vegas. I was getting dropped frames like nobody's business.

I went back to the old drivers, and it worked fine. It is strange that video card drivers would have an impact since Vegas, like other NLE's doesn't really use video cards for editing.
 
Which version of drivers did you find success? I current am using 93.71 nforce drivers. Also I am using DVrack HD 2.0 capturing into my system vs HDV-tape capturing. Could it be that? It is M2T file at AVI-T2. And which cineform intermediate would I use?
 
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I haven't updated for a while (it's a PITA); I'm using 77.76. Never had a problem with any nVidia drivers, though.
 
I try using that 77.76 version and see if that helps.

EDIT: After multiple tries I've decided to reinstall xp but not sp2 and installed 7.0c and so far it seems to run smoother. With cpu usage only to about 50% dual core. Maybe a glitch somewhere but I seemed to have got rid of it when i cleaned out the partition. Will try to run with SP1 only since this machine is not ever used on the internet but purely as a workstation.
 
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