VS8 Crashes during edit

[IronMike778]

Update.
After setting the min and max file size to 3072Mb which is 2x the actual memory, the memory leak seemed to stop, and the VS8 is now stable.

Thanks for the help

Can you elaborate on this a bit. I just upgraded my memory to 1 gig and it did help a bit, but I still have some issues. If I'm trying to edit a movie and the source movie clip is 10 minutes or so, it makes the project unworkable. I have to use clips of 2 minutes or so to draw from in order to edit smoothly in the storyboard. It's a real pain.

I'm in the virtual memory part of "My Computer" Performance, and this is what I see:
minimum total paging file sizes allowed for all drives: 2 mb
recommended:1533mb
currently allocated:768mb

Should I change anything?
I have two 40 gig drives I store my video files on.

[maddrummer3301]

wlittle,

You added 1 gig of memory to the main board.
Therefore the existing memory was 512.
Was the existing memory 1 chip of 512 or 2-256 chips.

The reason I'm asking is the chips should be used in matched pairs
in order to run in dual channel mode.
If 2 chips are installed in Bank1 they will run dual-channel.
1 chip only in bank one is single channel.
Not good to mix these and some motherboards won't even boot up
with 3 chips only.
So if you have 1 lone 512 chip in it's own bank which would be a
total of 3 chips then remove the lone chip to enable dual channel mode.
Matching pairs (the 2 - 512k chips should be installed in bank 1).

Other hardware issues:
Wrong Bios settings.
Defective memory(just because the computer counts the memory on
bootup doesn't mean the memory is good).

Also the memory leak really showed up when "Unchecking"
"Perform non-square pixel rendering" (something like that).
Under Preferences is that setting checked or unchecked.
Do you have instant preview enabled?

Hope this helps,

MD

[saroga]

Update.
After working on several aspects of the vurtual memory I discovered that the Norton Antivirus was resetting the VM file size during the boot process. By removing the start with windows boot from NAV the desired file size can be retained.

what u mean by this, just disable the nav not to start during boot? if yes how to disable this in windows xp?

After setting the min and max file size to 3072Mb which is 2x the actual memory, the memory leak seemed to stop, and the VS8 is now stable.

i have 1024 ram, can I also use this?

hope to hear u, because I also have this freezing probem, greetings

[wlittle]

Sorry for not getting back sooner.
Update
Am still having some VS8 aborts but as long as I rember to save the project at every few min then it is workable. I will still try and trace the problem.

IronMike778 & saroga

Several posters on a varity of web sites recomended setting the VM to 2x the actual physical memory, so if you have 1Gb then the setting would be 2048 for both the min and max.

maddrummer3301

Thanks for the tip, my memory is configured in matched pairs and running in dual channel mode.

saroga

to disable NAV from loading during system boot, in the NAV configuration window under "system" click on Auto-Protect, then Advanced, then uncheck the "Load Auto-protect during system boot".
If you still want it to run after boot, then check "Start Auto-Protect when Windows starts up" on the main configuration window.

Thanks

[saroga]

thanks for the information wlittle.

[mjward]

I get similar problem. Once I create a DVD video and attempt new project, VS8 crashes after a short period. It worked fine for awhile but now it either locks up or crashes.