Memory Issues on a CPU with 8GB RAM


  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
       #1

    Memory Issues on a CPU with 8GB RAM


    Hi,

    I recently re-installed Windows 7 and would like to re-install Sony Vegas Pro 12. I did so and after editing some videos for around 5 minutes, I received a pop-up warning: Close programs to prevent information loss: Sony Vegas.

    I don't understand how having 8GB of RAM on an i7 2600k on a hard drive with 200GB of space could have any problem running this program. To add on, it was the only program running. I checked to make sure. I've rebooted, ran memory diagnostics, tried changing the virtual memory allocated to each drive, yet still nothing. I get the same error every time after just 5 minutes of running this program.

    Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?
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  2. Posts : 5,092
    Windows 7 32 bit
       #2

    This is back a couple of versions but it seems related:
    Sony Creative Software - Forums - Vegas Movie Studio Messages

    What is your min/max setting on the page file.. just out of curiosity.
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  3. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I have it checked on the automatic mode. I've tried other things but no difference at all.
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  4. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #4

    How did you do this?

    From post #1
    I've rebooted, ran memory diagnostics, tried changing the virtual memory allocated to each drive
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  5. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Layback Bear said:
    How did you do this?

    From post #1
    I've rebooted, ran memory diagnostics, tried changing the virtual memory allocated to each drive
    I went into System and then went to Advanced System Settings, and then clicked settings under Performance. Then went to the Advanced tab, and hit Change under Virtual Memory. I then unchecked the automatic setting at the top, and checked custom setting. I then made the minimum 400 and the maximum 12000, which is 1.5x my physical memory.
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  6. Posts : 5,092
    Windows 7 32 bit
       #6
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  7. Posts : 687
    Microsoft Windows 10 Professional / Windows 7 Professional
       #7

    Make sure the pagefile is set to "windows managed size" or something like that.
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  8. Posts : 5,092
    Windows 7 32 bit
       #8

    OldMX said:
    Make sure the pagefile is set to "windows managed size" or something like that.
    On home premium that's not always the best policy. MS themselves often set the minimum to more than a GB on Professional and higher editions. I think on home the min size can be as low as 16 MB (with an 'M'.) That's asking for page file fragmentation.

    I'm a believer in min max being the same unless you need open ended page file size(such as you are serving up a large database.) Used to be you could set the minimum and leave the max open. Maybe you still can. But min = max works fine for me. Once the disk is defragged turn paging on with min = max and you can go for years without seeing a fragmented pagefile.sys.
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