rendering freeze

CubeAce wrote on 10/12/2021, 5:29 AM

Hi Andrea and welcome to the user to user forums.

Have you used the search function above on this forum to search for similar problems?

You will find a lot of the problems stem from the computer not normally meeting all of the required minimum specs.

Without the aid of one or more Graphics Processing units, the exports can be exceedingly slow if the processor is also not above the minimum specs.

Unfortunately under such circumstances the behaviour is normal.

A full rundown of your computer specs may help us to tell you if this is the case.

Normally updating or upgrading a program that is already showing signs of being slow effectively makes things worse as the new version invariably requires newer or higher specified components to work and deliver the gains seen in the advertising.

Ray.

Andrea-Vizzini wrote on 10/12/2021, 5:51 AM

Thanks Ray for your reply. I'm sure I have sufficient computer power as this computer is about a year old and was one the the better gaming PC's, see detail below

Processor: Ryzen 9 3950X 3.5GHz, 72MB Cache, 16x Cores, 4.7GHz
Memory: Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 3200MHz 64GB Gaming RAM
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 1650 Super OC Edition. 4GB GDDR6 Card
Sound Card: Integrated High Quality HD Sound Card
Primary Hard Drive: [NVMe] Hikvision E2000 2TB M.2 SSD
Fire Wire: 3 Port Fire Wire Card

CubeAce wrote on 10/12/2021, 6:30 AM

@Andrea-Vizzini

Hi Andrea.

The program settings on your machine should look like this before loading any projects.

As you can see I have the same nvidia card as yourself.

I will say that although the GPU is within the minimum specs I would advise a GTX 2080 or something newer (Turing or newer) with at least 6GB of ram if you are editing anything at 4K or higher as my card is beginning to struggle with more complex 4K projects.

Any attempt to change those settings with an active project normally results in the program crashing so avoid doing so. Do make sure the nvidia card driver is up to date and you do have the latest MEP 2022 patch which came out a few days ago that has helped with increasing the speed of exporting. At least on my system it has.

The CPU should be on tick-over using less than 7 to 10% with the nvidia card almost maxing out in places.

Use Windows Task Manager to keep a track of the systems performance.

Some effects such as noise reduction and some OFX based effects will slow down exports considerably and push CPU usage up to a point where overheating of the CPU can occur without an additional high performance heat dissipation system such as using a heat-pipe base CPU cooler. Keep an eye on such behaviour to see if that is causing a throttling back of CPU performance.

Ray.

[Edit] I do understand I am using MEP 2022 instead of VPX 13 but the screens are very similar. There may be an additional box not shown above.

CubeAce wrote on 10/12/2021, 6:36 AM

@Andrea-Vizzini

Nearly forgot.

For best performance don't have your project video files on your C: drive but another hard drive. Even on fast NVMe drives there is too much data flowing for the drive to keep up with. MVNe's are good at handling lots of small packets of information but slow considerably when handling large data chunks such as video files.

Ideally you need three drives. One for the operating system and program. One for the project files and project folders, and one to export to. That normally prevents data bottlenecks.

Ray.