Posted by Mike Kujbida on 02/01/08 01:22

T.B. wrote:
> "Richard Crowley" wrote:
>
>> "T.B." wrote ...
>>> 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."
>> ....
>>> 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.
>> ....
>>> 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?
>>
>> We have already conducted several "intervetions" and saved
>> friends who had become "Vista Victims". Dunno if Vista will
>> ever be production-worthy at this rate.
>
> Tell me about it. I'm a graphic artist and buying a new pc with Vista
> pre-installed has wound up costing me a lot of extra money and
> aggravation dealing with upgrading costly programs like QuarkXPress that
> will run on and supposedly be supported by the new OS.
>
> T.B.


Here's one "possible" solution from the Sony Vegas forum.
HTH.

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The cause for this failure was a messed up installation of the
"Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable" on my system. For some
reason, that will remain a mystery to all of us, a run-time component of
that installation was missing. Vegas and DVDA rely on that one for their
installation and subsequent execution.

The fix was a complete uninstall of the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
Redistribution" component. That allows the Vegas and/or DVDA
installation kit to re-install it completely.
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Mike

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