@CubeAce

Hi Ray,

Thank you, I have just downloaded the UHD 750 driver.

Nobody gets notifications, when new updates available?

What is the difference between Getforce game ready and studio drivers?

How to obtain the studio's one?

Gabriel

@profilaxagm

Hi Gabriel.

The latest game ready driver from NVidia is 512.15 released on March 22 this year. (I have the GeForce 1660 Ti, so almost identical to yours.) If you have "GeForce Experience" installed you should be able to use it to update your drivers.

As to the debate about "Studio" versus "Game Ready" drivers, I chose to run the latter simply because they are what Magix developers and technicians do and what they apparently recommend. This page lists all the latest drivers for your card.

HTH

Jeff
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@emmrecs

Hi,

It seems that program doesn't crash, but not responding awhile (sometimes a minute or two), then it revives.

The performance monitor shows extra disk usage, when I move the cursor in a 10 minutes video from the end

to the beginning for example. - despite I have 64 GB RAM.

Is it any way to reduce the disk's operation, apart from not moving the cursor?

What did I set wrong?

@profilaxagm

How much free space is there on drive G:\? Have you run any recent test to ensure it is running properly?

Jeff

@emmrecs​​​​​​

This HDD is fairly old, 5400 rpm, 4TB HDD, 1 TB free space, I tested it long time ago.

@profilaxagm

Free space should not be a problem but I wonder whether 5400rpm might be, especially if, as you say, this drive is now fairly old. It might be well worth your while to run at least basic tests on it and its current performance.

Jeff

@emmrecs

If I want to move the whole project to a NVMe drive, how can I modify the project file to be recognised by the project's components?

@profilaxagm

Can you define what you mean by the whole project?

If you mean only the .mvp project file then simply opening that file will also automatically open all the source video and audio files since they will still be exactly where they were previously.

If you mean you want to move ALL the files (video, audio, images, etc., etc.) and the .mvp project file to the new drive I would recommend you do the following:

1. Create a folder on the NVMe drive for all the files from your project to be saved. Give it any name you wish.
2. In VPX go to File>Back up copy>Copy project and media into folder and in the screen you see, choose the folder you have just created.
3. OK your selection.
4. Once the folder with all its content is created, you can then close the project in VPX.
5. Either, click on the .mvp file in the new folder and open the project, or in VPX use File>Open and navigate to where the .mvp file is now saved and open it.
6. Once you are happy the project is recreated properly resave it to the new drive, perhaps with a new name. That way, VPX will know where to find it when you next want to open it.

HTH

Jeff

@profilaxagm

Hi Gabriel.

I would definitely be blaming that drive if it quite old. Not only is it a slow speed drive but the chances are, being old, that the drives' cache memory is not so large. The continuous read the task manager is showing seems to bear that out.

Other things that can slow down the machine is not having enough space on the C: drive for the temp files created by VPX during use. As far as I can work out, only audio gets fully sent to ram, video may get sent to vram on the graphics card, of that I'm not sure, but people with larger amounts of vram on their graphics cards seem to suffer much less than people with 4GB of vram or less. A lot will depend on the bit rate of the video files, the video resolution the frame rate in use as well as the complexity of the codec and how much compression is having to be decoded. The exception seems to be when there is no graphics card involved at all and everything is done at a CPU level using the software encoders only. Then the system may just freeze for undefined periods or slow down.

You know when you have a system that copes well when you press the stop button. Everything showing use within the Task Master drops almost instantly to much lower levels of a PC at idle. That can change depending on the project content and amount of plugins in use or the type of plugin in use.

Eventually any project in theory could crash the system, hardware depending vs the amount of processing needed at any one moment within the project. I would love to know of anyone out there editing at 8K.

Ray.

@CubeAce, @emmrecs

Thank you.

I copied the project to the NVMe, and everything is OK until now.

It seems, the old HDD is usable only for backup purposes.

@profilaxagm

Thank you for the feedback.

It's all I use old disks for.

I'm glad it was a relatively easy fix for you. Always good to have one dedicated program drive.

The speed of a mechanical drive can be quite slow as long as it has a very large inboard cache size. I'm sure @johnebaker uses such drives on one of his machines.

Ray.

@profilaxagm

Hi

@CubeAce is correct I do use 5200 RPM hard drives one 2GB for the OS and programs, and a 4GB for data files.

They both have a larger buffer/cache size and outperform the previous 7200 RPM drives, with smaller buffer/cache sizes, they replaced.

I work with 4K UHD 60MB/s video files and in terms of data transfer rate neither drive SATA buses get saturated - they usually peak at 10%, and they are as fast as an SSD drive when it comes to playback and rendering, both reading and writing the data faster then is required for processing or encoding/rendering - SSD drives tend to spend more time idling than a HDD does - I see this on my laptop which has a SSD drive.

HTH

John EB

@CubeAce

Unfortunately it was to good to be true.

I backed up the project, as you proposed, and resaved it on NVMe. 

If I double click the project file, it loaded from the NVMe, but when I would save it, it tries to save to the HDD, and the program freezes, as before.

It seems, the project file doesn't save the new path.

It is evidenced by the fact, that if I look at the "Last opened project's" references, all of them hint to the old HDD's path.

@browj2

Thank You, this is the solution.

@profilaxagm

Hi,

Let's hope so. There seem to be many hidden bad features in VPX13.

John CB

Hi,

When I try to edit the scene put in project folder in the source window, the application crashes as a rule.

VPX13 (19.02.150)
Win11 pro, i7-11700K, 64GB RAM Nvidia Getforce 1660 super
GetForce driver: 30.015.1215
UHD750 driver: 30.0101.1404

I experience a lot of problems, since installed the new graphic drivers.

Gabriel

@browj2​​​​​​, @CubeAce​​​​​​, @emmrecs​​​​​​, @johnebaker

Hi,

After I copied to the NVMe the project, and set the default dictionaries to it, everything works fine, but the before mentioned basic problem remains.

Is there anybody who edits the scene's put into the project folder on source monitor before sending it to the project window?

In my case the program always crashes.

@profilaxagm

Hi,

Yes, but not a lot. Mostly, I do some trimming but have stopped going directly to the Project Folder because there is a bug (reported to Magix) in that the start point is ignored and the clip is imported from the beginning to the Out point (not In to Out).

I have a couple of objects that I use repeatedly that have the size effect that I have in the Project Folder and use many times in my tutorials. I have not had any problem with crashing.

I have had crashing problems with a couple of source files that I had to run through Handbrake. That is all.

You problem may be related to the source material.

What is the source of material? Maybe post the Media Info here.

Are you putting any effects on the clips before putting them in the Project Folder?

John CB

@browj2

I use the project folder intensively to structure the source material for larger projects.

I trim the material on the source monitor before putting it in the project folder, but the project folder only remembers this edit when I drag the recording, but not when I use the button in the project window or scene's icon.

The program crashes at the moment when I try to set the marker in the source monitor to a file from a project folder.

I am using Gopro's footage, I will post the media info soon.

Gabriel