Yay now I have a reason to play TM for more than 5 minutes now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM&feature=related

Your Video Card only has DDR2 memory. Try finding one that is 512MB DDR3 if you can because quality over quantity when it comes to VRAM. Also that power supply is WAY too big for what you got try finding something around 500 watts, but make sure its a quality power supply with 2 12v rails  with at least 18 amps on each rail and not some cheap plastic crap box.

Getting both those things should save you money and give you better performance.


I recommend these if you are able to find them.

GIGABYTE GV-N95TD3-512I GeForce 9500 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3

APEVIA WIN-500XSPX 500W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply

GIGABYTE and APEVIA are two very reliable companies and they usually have well priced products.

Heres a nifty little tutorial for all you computards who use Vegas.


First off Sony Vegas 8.0 only uses 1 core to render media, what this tutorial will do is show you how to give Vegas permission to utilize multiple CPU cores.

Here is what a 256kbps 48000k hz 16-bit audio file looks like when it renders using only 1 core and a Normal priority.




Now heres what that same file looks but this time Vegas is rendering with 2 cores and a High priority.





Not a very big difference but still its something. Keep in mind the more cores Vegas uses while rendering the more the render time will decrease.


So now here is how you improve the render time of any media file.


1. Open Task Manager then select the "Processes" tab.

2. find vegas80.exe (versions vary) in the processes list and right click it.

Now you should see a list with several things on it. The two things we want to work with are the Priority and the Affinity.

So click on the Priority option and you should see something like this.



Make sure the Priority is set to High. ( I highly suggest you do not use Realtime as it may cause problems with your PC)


Now click the Affinity option and you should get something like this.



This is where you can select the processor cores Sony Vegas will use. As you can see Vegas is only uses Core number 2 (CPU 1).
You may have more boxes available depending on how many cores your processor has.

Now simply check the remaining boxes so all cores will be utilized by Vegas.




Easy isn't it?


Well now that Vegas is using multiple cores and a High priority lets try rendering a 1 minute 640x480 MP4 video with Vegas default settings.



As you can see both CPU cores are being utilized and are both maxing out.



Now lets try that same video but using only 1 core and Normal priority.



Now only the second cores is maxing out while the first core is doing absolutely nothing.



The render time using only 1 core and a normal priority was nearly a minute longer than with 2 cores and High priority.


I was even able to watch a DVD quality movie while I rendered the original audio file and only added a very short time to the render but it still rendered faster than 1 core and Normal priority did.




REMEMBER you MUST repeat this process EVERY time you open Sony Vegas otherwise it will revert to using 1 core!!

Have you ban evaded since being banned?

I would advise telling the truth here, because I can find out.

Actually if I remember correctly MrBrooks said he banned Raising for ban evading once.