With 2GB of RAM I would stick to Windows XP32 and V9 or V10.

What version of Windows are you using?
You do know that 32 bit Windows can only use 3 gig, don't you? Writing more is useless until you give us enough info to work with.

Pls note that Vegas 12 is 64 bit software only - requiring a 64 bit machine (2 GB?? ) and a 64 bit Windows Vista or 7 or 8.

As others have pointed out, if your computer only supports 2G of memory it is probably ancient enough that it isn't 64 bit, so it will not run Vegas 12. You need Win 7 (or Vista if you want to) to run Vegas 12, and it has to be 64 bits.

Right. I bought it future proofed as a 64 bit system but didn't notice it maxed at 2gig, and just last night installed Win7 64bit. Vegas 12 is next. We'll see how it does. I know a few tricks ;)

If you're limited to 2 GB by your current system, don't have the time and/or money to replace it, but plan to replace it in the future, buy an SSD, now.

You can reuse the SSD on your next system. When you're current system is "paging" and "swapping", at least the I/O will be a little faster.

It works! As is right out of the install. And I haven't even done any optimizing. Granted, it doesn't run IDEALLY or any better than VP11, but it feels the same and DOES WORK on a machine with only 2GB of ram. I might even try the SSD route also.

I bought 2, 4 gig pieces of DDR3 RAM (8 Gig total) last month for $60.
You're not going to get a Solid State Drive anywhere near that price. The 80 gig SSD I bought to use as a swap file (virtual RAM) cost me $165.

It doesn't matter what you know, plain old common sense should come into play here. The Compaq desktop I bought my grand kids to keep them away from my computer came with Windows 7 (home edition) and 2 gig of RAM. Win 7 64 bit installed OK but it certainly wasn't useful.

I re-formatted the drive and installed Win XP Pro (32 bit) on it and it is quite usable now. I certainly wouldn't try to render even a wedding video on it, much less edit one and put FX transitions into it.

My experience (40 years of it) tells me whatever the minimum hardware specifications are... Double them and then some to have trouble free usage.

I agree with all that. My old MotherBoard here simply does not handle anything more than 2gig ram. It is old and was cheap and I NEVER anticipated trying to edit HD video on it!! :D But Vegas makes it totally functional - as opposed to other, bigger editors I tried. NewE has SSD for around $100 which seems reasonable enough. But I feel I'd rather just live with this for now and use any moneys for a complete system replacement that is needed.
So far, VP12 64 feels like it is running exactly like VP11 32 did, which I can live with. Gets a lil chunky at times, but usable. :)

I say, save your money for a motherboard & mem upgrade, as you
will need that very soon once you start to work with V12.

Ted

>> bit system but didn't notice it maxed at 2gig

Sorry, what? I am sure this must be wrong. Why do you think your system maxes out at 2G? I would be surprised if there was a computer built on a 64bit chip that can only accept 2G of memory.

it was a bottom feeding (super cheap) system way back when I bought it to just play some games and internet.
http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=NF61S%20Micro%20AM2%20SE

2GB max Ram. It's crazy, but it's old. Yet, I'm editing HD video on it! :D I've got a 2 gig video card that probably helps, and my system is VERY optimised. Works for now. I was hoping it wouldn't so I would be forced to upgrade, but, no such luck yet. :D

Now, I have NOT tried shoving bigger ram into it's two slots since everything points to it being its max - seemed like a waste of money to buy and have it fail.

Kingston and Crucial have online memory configurators. See what they say about your PC.

yes, I've done Crucial before. Today it told me I have a NFORCE system with 4 slots. I can see that is physically wrong... only two slots. Kingstons says 2 gig max.

Only, I did some deeper searches and found a video where a guy DID put 4GB in and claims the system sees it. Never saw it boot windows though. I MIGHT risk the cost of eating shipping and restocking fees

It's likely that when that motherboard was built 1GB dimms were state of the art and anything larger was exotic and fabulously expensive. As such, they didn't bother to test it, and after the product started shipping they saw no need to do more testing or update the specs since they'd probably moved on to new motherboards.

Now, you *could* buy a pair of 2GB dimms for that board on the speculation that they'd work. I'd check on the specs for the motherboard's chipset since that will include the memory controller. I'd also look at the release notes for this motherboard's BIOS updates to see if it says anything about increased memory support.

Realistically, this is an pretty old motherboard. The memory you buy for it won't work in anything current. You'd be well served to get something new. On the other hand, if what you've got is working then just stand pat.

Rob