My pc crashes when I use premiere, do I need a new video card? - GoFuckYourself.com

clickhappy · 08-31-2004, 12:58 AM

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 · 08-31-2004, 01:30 AM

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.

contentjunky · 08-31-2004, 01:33 AM

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.

mule · 08-31-2004, 01:33 AM

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.

mule · 08-31-2004, 01:38 AM

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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

gwilkins · 08-31-2004, 01:44 AM

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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clickhappy Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 4,027	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

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08-31-2004, 01:33 AM	#4
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08-31-2004, 01:44 AM	#6
gwilkins Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 744	If your install of Premiere is OK it's most likely a codec or plugin problem. Are you working with mpeg or mpeg2?