9b strange bug?

[Neil Randall]

Thought I'd shift this to a more prominent place...

Using 9B with some short test pieces I found on Scarlet user. They integrate fine (drop 'n' drag) but, occasionally, one of the media bin thumbs turns bright red (255/0/0!) when I double-click to shift it to the trimmer. Drop it to the TL and the same happens to the thumbs there. Once it occurs, the rest soon follow suit and I just get black on the preview window. Needs a restart from there...

Some kind of random or known bug?

Ta,

NR.

[Nicholas Costaras]

Sounds like you are running short on memory. If your'e using xp this will happen. And if not are you using the 64bit version? I found the problem dissapeared once i ungraded to 64bit.

[Neil Randall]

Thanks for reply.

Doesn't surprise me - the spec is pretty shitty:

Intel Core 2 T5300 @ 1.73 GHz
1 GB RAM
Win XP Pro SP 3 (pretty sure it ain't 64Bit / virtual memory up to 1,500 MB)
Vegas 9b

Would low memory cause this kind of crash?

Ta,

NR.

[Nicholas Costaras]

Ya... bad spec. You need at least 4 gigs to run well and be able to crop without it freaking out. And obviously need either vista or windows 7 ultimate.

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[Neil Randall]

Why do I 'need' Vista or Win 7? If it runs fine on XP 64 Bit, I ain't touching another OS.

[A. Bastaki]

i'm on xp 64 bit... very happy with it.. it performs way better than any of the new os's microsoft have made... vista IS winxp with a lot of hiss and piss. Win 7... same..

I still don't see the vista or win 7 advantage.

[Nicholas Costaras]

I'm running windows 7 64bit. From xp it really performs well and is more like xp and not crappy vista. I avoided vista but I am getting better render results so far out of win 7.