Lack of performance from gaming PC

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deh-cheesekake

Bronze Level Poster
After buying a kick ass gaming machine from PCSpecialist about 2 weeks ago I have been able to do many more things than I previously could with my old Laptop (£400, 1.8GH processor, 256MB video RAM). It can handle Source games & Minecraft on full settings with 100+ FPS which is great. But outside the world of 3D gaming the PC acts like it is in super duper power saving mode (yes I have config'd the power option in the control panel). The odd thing is that my old laptop seems to perform better in this area although I am not sure why as my new PC is a heck of a lot more powerful than it in every aspect I can think of. Possibly the most annoying thing is the fact that video editing is virtually impossible. I use "Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11.0" to edit my recorded footage into youtube content and it is seemingly impossible! My machine fails to comprehend the prospect of letting my edit my videos without it crashing, lagging & stopping to what I can only think of as buffering. I have noticed that from some CPU-Z readouts that my graphics card has a seperate profiles for 3D applications of which its speeds are much higher and I think this is the most likely course of the problem. Below are my PC specs:

Processor: AMD BULLDOZER quad core 3.6GHz
RAM: 8GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz
Graphics: GTX 560 2GB video memory (non Ti)

Please can someone tell me what is going on with this and how I am able to fix this. I fail to understand how a PC that can run Portal 2 on max settings fine cannot animate text spinning in on my video editor without stopping to buffer itself
 
rickne

rickne

Master Poster
HAve you monitored performance in the task manager? Remember video editing is extremely cpu and memory draining.
 
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deh-cheesekake

Bronze Level Poster
When video editing the CPU usage maxes at about 40% and does not go any higher (normaly less than 20%). The problem here is that the video editing software seems to require more than that which is why it is crashing and lagging, my feeling is that the PC is purposely holding back on performance because it believes it it just another standard application such as a web browser or a text editor. The PC is not bottle necking, the application is because the PC is not giving it enough power
 
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Buzz

Buzz

Master
Have you tried to increase your system page file limit?

Control panel
System
Advanced system settings
Advanced tab
Performance settings
Advanced tab
Virtual memory

What HDD/SSD drives do you have. If your op system is on an SSD drive try changing the C:\ drive to custom pagefile of min 800 max 1024 and then allow system to manage the pagefile on your fastest HDD.

If you have just a HDD for everything check and make sure it is set to system managed.

Then try CFF explorer.

Download and install http://www.ntcore.com/files/ExplorerSuite.exe

Run it as admin by searching for cff explorer and right click, run as admin

Click open and link to your Vegas Movie Studio.exe file (in V10 it was called VegasMovieStudioPE100.exe may vary for V11)

Now go to "NT Header/File Header" and click "File Header". There you will find a button labeled "click here". Click it. And select the checkbox "App can handle> 2GB address space"

Now press the "ok"'s and when back on the main menu, click on the disk button and save the modified ".exe" file, overwrite the orginal one

*You should backup the .exe file you change prior to using cff.
 
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