VS9 Started Crashing

gordonwd · Post by **gordonwd** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:55 pm

I used VS9 for the first time yesterday, creating a complete video, successfully rendering it to an ISO file and burning a DVD. Today I reopened the project and tried to edit some of the titles, and it just crashes randomly with the"referenced memory at xxxx" type error.

I tried it a couple of times, then rebooted and tried again. No luck. Is this a common issue with VS9? My system is generally very stable, and I've had no trouble with extensive use of VS8.

Should I give up on this, or is there something else to try? I do have the patch from the August timeframe installed.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:14 am

Don't know what is the matter but we are getting increasing reports of such behaviour. It could be worthwhile to reinstall the program but not the update patch. I am a great believer in 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. I have been using VS9 since soon after it first came on the market and have not applied any of the patches. No problems so far. After the schemozzle of the patches of VS8, I think you only should apply patches if your computer actually demonstrates the sort of problem the patch is designed to fix.

gordonwd · Post by **gordonwd** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:33 pm

Actually I did a "repair" reinstall and the reapplied the patch, and so far it has been working OK. I was able to resume editing on my project and finished that successfully.

I am also usually in the "if it ain't broke camp", but I don't think that they always tell you *everything* that is fixed in a particular patch, so usually just go ahead and apply them. This one's been out since August, so I figured if there was anything wrong with it, it would have been found & fixed by now.