Posted by T.B. on 01/31/08 20:53

I recently bought Sony Vegas Studio 8 specifically because it's advertised
as being Windows Vista compatible, plus I have an older version of Vegas and
for the most part, really liked the software and had few if any problems
with it.

However, once I installed the software, it fails to initiallize, and crashes
as it's loading the "audio engine." I updated the software to the latest
version (8.0c) with no change in the problem. I spent much of a day earlier
this week going back and forth with a Sony tech trying to solve the problem,
doing things like uninstalling *all* Sony Creative software and installed
vegas first, disabling all but the most essential processes running in task
manager and disabling my sound card drivers. No effect.

FWIW, my pc is a HPm9040, 32 bit, running Vista Home Premium. I have the
latest version of Quicktime, my version of Vista is completly up to date,
there's no memory, hard drive, hardware or software or *any* other obvious
issues that would cause this sort of problem. It should also be mentioned
that the latest versions of Sony's Soundforge and DVD Architect seems to run
fine.

By reading many other threads on several a/v forums, I can see that my
problem of Vegas 8 crashing during application start-up under Windows Vista
is far from an isolated case. Some people with similar problems with Vegas 8
on Vista found that by "switching out" the "aviplug.dll," that solves the
problem but not in my case:

http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/876373

I specifically bought this new version of Vegas because it said on the box
it was Vista compatible. Obviously, it's not judging by the number of
customers with the same problem.

Does anyone have a solution for this issue yet?

T.B.

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