My pc crashes when I use premiere, do I need a new video card?

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  • clickhappy
    Confirmed User
    • Mar 2004
    • 4027

    #1

    My pc crashes when I use premiere, do I need a new video card?

    I got 512 megs of memory and a pentium 4 processor and tong of hd space. but when i use premiere it crashes often.

    will a new video card fix this? I dont know what I have for a video card but it came with the system so it probably sucks
  • Rantan
    Confirmed User
    • Aug 2004
    • 714

    #2
    could be alot of things... id say your MB, not enough HD space, it's prolly not your video card... try messing with the config in premiere.
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    • contentjunky
      Confirmed User
      • May 2004
      • 377

      #3
      512 ram in my opinion is not enough to run the OS and Premiere. Premiere is a huge memory hog. Photoshop alone has trouble running big applications on 512 with XP. Now take that same 512 mb ram and run a 4 Gig AVI file through that shit. Not going to work. Just a thought. Probably need 2 gigs of ram but I dont know how big your files are that your working with. Just a thought anyways.
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      • mule
        Confirmed User
        • Jan 2002
        • 6085

        #4
        It could be a hell of a lot of things, but for starters make sure you use a dedicated scratch disk, that it's HUGE and fast, and defrag it regularly.
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        • mule
          Confirmed User
          • Jan 2002
          • 6085

          #5
          Originally posted by contentjunky
          Probably need 2 gigs of ram
          Not really, depends on how your system is configured....I made a 30-minute movie (720X540) on a pre-pentium system with 128 MB of ram, running Win2K. Took a couple of days to render though
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          • gwilkins
            Confirmed User
            • Feb 2004
            • 744

            #6
            If your install of Premiere is OK it's most likely a codec or plugin problem. Are you working with mpeg or mpeg2?

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