Running Vegas on a 2.66 ghz processor???

[Keithly]

Has anyone has success running R6 Vegas (the first, not the second) on a 2.66 ghz system? My system meets the rest of the minimum requirements, just not the processor speed. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Keithly]

Has anyone has success running R6 Vegas (the first, not the second) on a 2.66 ghz system? My system meets the rest of the minimum requirements, just not the processor speed. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[funkmunky80]

Depends... is your CPU Intel or AMD? I've had it running fine on a 2.2Ghz CPU, that was an AMD 3500+.

The main requirements to worry about are RAM and of course Graphics. Even if your CPU is an intel you might get away with it if everything else is up to scratch... Give it a go and see what happens.

Check out the legal tweaks under the USEFUL LINKS (http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/3571084024/m/1711024656) thread to optimize the games performance.

If you still can't get it to run, as a last resort you could overclock your CPU, but get advice from someone who knows what they're talking about first...

[Want2Snipe]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Keithly:
Has anyone has success running R6 Vegas (the first, not the second) on a 2.66 ghz system? My system meets the rest of the minimum requirements, just not the processor speed. Any help would be greatly appreciated! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

If you have purchased the game already, might as well try it, if not and depending on your other system specs, you'll be lucky to run it at 800 x600 and possibly at lower FPs's as well if below 1Gb of Ram. Not that it matters much since the graphics were krappy even at higher resolutions.

If you are planning to go play online, then your graphics will suffer even more and again, if you don't have a good video card and 2GB's of Ram with a good broadband, you will lag from here to china.

[Lethal1940]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Keithly:
Has anyone has success running R6 Vegas (the first, not the second) on a 2.66 ghz system? My system meets the rest of the minimum requirements, just not the processor speed. Any help would be greatly appreciated! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

You don't list your system specs. but if that is a core 2 duo CPU, it will run fine.
I have seen both Vegas and Vegas 2 run on slower CPU's that yours, but it depends on the CPU.

I actually ran Vegas 1 on a laptop with a core 2 duo 1.8 GHz, but it has an 8700M GT video card.
It runs fine at fairly high settings.

Try it and see what happens.
The resolution and other settings will depend mainly on your graphics card!

[Rick_Randy]

Sorry for bringing this old topic up.

I just got vegas1 on pc (although I bought vegas1 on xbox360 awhile back)

This is what I got that runs it fine on 640X 480
or 800x600 on low detail.

The only problem is after awhile the screen either turns blank (but i can still hear everything work) or has multicolored vertical lines as it crashes.

This happens now with any other 3d game I have on my system (excluding starship trooper which runs on a p3),I suspect the video card needs more power, could anyone figure out what is wrong and how to fix it?

this is my rig running vegas1

Operating System :win xp sp2
CPU: Athlon 3200 (running at 2.6 ghz)
GPU:Radeon 9800 512MB(I just got to run vegas)
Sound Card:creative wdm live
Motherboard:ga-vt600
RAM: 3 GB.
PSU: 400 Watts
cd rom:creative 52x
cd burner: Lite on 52x
floppy drive:samsung
HDD1:80 gb maxtor (os only to run faster)
HDD2:80 gb seagate barracuda (I shove my games here)

Now I never had a video card before that needed
a berg connection and my last video card had no problems what so ever. (but i could not run vegas, it was an asus a9500 )

when I installed the new video card with the default cd, a message saying update the driver is preffered, but not sure if that is revelant becasue the game does not crash at the title screen, only when i start playing and the in game action starts heating up.

The new card has a small fan and heat sink that has the power cable hooked up to the card itself for power but that should not be the problem.

So far the crash start happening several seconds after either the mouse or keyboard stops responding when the in game action heats up. I tried removing the floppy and just connecting the video card.

It takes it longer to crash, about five minutes into the game.

so what happens? need more power? perhaps a better heat sink???

I only get max 10 minutes of fun before the keyboard does not respond or the mouse then it crashes. When I restart the computer, there are no error messages.

please let me know what is happening.

[Lethal1940]

The PSU is marginal!
It depends more on amps on the 12 volt rail than the watts.
If you have around 18 to 20 amps, you should be okay, but you really do need a better PSU to prevent damage!

This really sounds like a graphics issue.
I would download a program like Riva Tuner to see what your GPU temperature is.
Then turn the fan up to 100%.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163

I had an 8800GT hitting 91c under load and this dropped temps to mid 60's.

You can also try updating Directx drivers, but don't do it throught Microsoft's web based site.
Download the Redistributable.
Extract to a folder and run this file:...DXSETUP.exe
There will be a ton of files so make sure you get the right one!

http://www.microsoft.com/downl...d1a91&DisplayLang=en (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=740ac79a-5b72-447d-84f9-ee6407ed1a91&DisplayLang=en)