The constant crashing of premiere

tylerindo

tylerindo

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So i'm running the 6.5 version of Premiere with my ATI Radeon 9800 video card, 1.5 GB ram, 7200RPM, PC2700 DDR-sdram, 2.16Ghz

off of this i have video files store on my main drive, 160GB, my 2nd drive, 250GB, and an external connected via USB at 200GB.

The power supply is low, at 250W.



I have constant crashes, and they come and go whether i'm clicking on an un-rendered part of the timeline, or trying to do a roll edit, stretch a clip, move a clip etc. Sometimes nothing.

Here's the thing, when I uninstall the ATI display driver, there is no crashing what-so-ever.
BUT--->>>the video display is of course hideous and hard to look at.


Whos the culprit? Power supply, video card, or both?
 
It is un advisable to have video files on the same drive as the application (eg the "main" system drive).

Try a new video card with the latest drivers seeing as how you have already diagnosed that as an issue.
 
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Sounds like the PSU may also be a bit underpowered too.
300-350W should be good for what you have in there at the moment - is your system overclocked at all?
(if you don't know what overclocking is... forget that last part :) )

Also, how old is your machine and what CPU do you have in there? - that may also be helpful :)
 
amd athlon 3000, I also uninstalled DivX. which was recommended apparently it clashes with premiere 6.5 and causes it to crash frequently, so far i've been pushing the hell out of system trying to force it to crash and it's handling it all a lot better. However i'm not getting my hopes up, i'll run it all day and see what happens, next i may just swap out video cards i dunno?

There has got to be a compatibility issue here or something, when the ati driver was taken off it didnt crash, but now with divX gone , the ati video card is doing okay.
 
a small power supply wouldnt' crash premiere though would it? The computers not shutting down, im only receiving errors in premiere forcing me to close it down.
 
it sounds perhaps like there is are some openGL/GPU features causing this. Try upgrading your driver fro the ATI card, and check your Memory/Caching and openGL setting in PP

as well, check the setting in your properties manager for your video card

BTW: I did notice you are on 6.5 versus the v1 or greater. The API in what started over as v1 was totally changed, the incremental v1.5, and now v2.o have stabilized many of the issues that plagued 6.5, just something to think about. Technology and Codecs have come along way since 6.5
 
I would really suggest an upgrade to a current (or at least near current) version. 6.5 is so far out of date now that it isn't even close. I run PPro 2 on a number of different machines and rarely (maybe once in 6 months) experience any problems.
 
I upped the power supply today from 250W to 460W, it still does its normal thing. If the ATi radeon 9800 driver is uninstalled I don't have the issues at all, however the machine becomes sluggish and makes the video really hard to look at. I've heard somewhere that I could pop in a $100 matrox video card and it should work fine??
 
Changed out the crappy ati 9800 for a 70 dollar geforce. Sorted it out. Unbelievable. Ive been trying to fix this for a long time now and it was a hella cheap fix
 
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