Vegas 5 Crash with XP Home

DavidPJ wrote on 6/11/2004, 6:12 PM
I've put off posting this because I thought it would likely just "go away" by itself or I would determine the cause outside of Vegas 5. After all, Vegas 4 was rock solid under both my previous Win98se and my current XP Home Edition. Certainly Vegas could not be at fault.

However, I'm no longer confident that V5 isn't the cause of the crashes. I know there are many factors that could cause instability, but nothing has really changed on my PC since installing Vegas 5a. No other apps crash on the PC. It seems like Vegas 5 might be much more resource intensive because most of the crashes seem to occur when I have IE open with 1-3 browser sessions. These crashes aren't too bothersome because XP comes right back and I continue where I left off.

Today my system crashed with an exception error in module ntdll.dll. No other apps were open at the time. All I tried to do was delete an audio event from the timeline. This crash led to this posting.

Is anyone else experiencing random but frequent crashes with V5a with XP Home? I'm running Microsoft Service Pack 1. Thanks.

Comments

kentwolf wrote on 6/11/2004, 7:21 PM
For what it's worth:

ntdll.dll.definitely sounds like a system/OS issue. Even though it's XP. they still use the phrase "NT" here and there seeing XP is essentially thier latest version of actually WIndows NT.
dvdude wrote on 6/11/2004, 8:02 PM
I might be able to confirm that it's not an inherrent XP Home issue as I use 5.0a and XP home and I'm glad to say my environment is blissfully crash free. Do you have any old hardware with non-certified drivers?
AFW wrote on 6/12/2004, 3:27 AM
dvdude is right -- it's not WinXP or Vegas. It's running stably on thousands of machines.
You must have a duff driver somewhere, or perhaps a bad install. Start by checking video and audio drivers and then work your way through others (in Device Manager).
DavidPJ wrote on 6/12/2004, 3:28 AM
I'm glad to hear other users are not experiencing crashes. My PC is ancient by today's standards. It's a P3, 866Mhz, 512K. Please don't laugh to hard. It's been a great system. The drivers are up to date and certified in most cases. Sony still shows low system requirements of 500 MHz processor and 128 MB RAM for Vegas 5+DVD.

Perhaps it's just coincidental that my problems began with the installation of Vegas 5. If the problem continues I'll begin disabling startup items to try to isolate.
Ruchir wrote on 6/12/2004, 4:36 AM
Possibly an overheating CPU.
Double check your CPU temperature?

Certain processor intensive apps can cause random crashes like this - I had this problem a while back when my CPU was overheating.
Caruso wrote on 6/12/2004, 4:47 AM
Well, whatever you do, you needn't apologize for or be suspect of your system for its "meager" power. I run an AMD 900Mhz with only 384 mb of system ram. Until I ran into some unexplained low memory problems (in hindsight, that was probably some sort of virus), I only had 128 mb of ram.

Vegas 4 and 5 always have run smoothly on my system. V4 never ever crashed. V5 was crashing but that was because my system drive had filled itself almost to capacity with goofy internet related nonesense. A good scrubbing with Norton Anti-virus cured that problem, and she's been rock solid ever since.

Hey, just a though, have you checked free space on your system drive lately?

Just a thought. Worked for me.

Good luck.

Caruso
stran94945 wrote on 1/1/2005, 2:48 PM
I'm using Vegas 4 and thinking of upgrade to Vegas 5 + DVD ... My Vegas 4 recently crashed left and right when I edited this movie made with clips shot on our ski trip. My OS is XP Pro Service pack 2 and so far this never happened before until now . I tried this approach and it did stop the frequent crashes (i.e sudden disappearance) by reducing the Preview port size to 320X240 and increase the dynamic RAM size (16MB by default). It's not a bad idea to check on the virtual memory allocation as well!

Hope this helps