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I can pretty reliably freeze/crash live while using video and multiple screens on my new laptop. This could be caused by faulty graphics drivers, but quicktime player itself as well as other players show no such problems. The only solution so far is to completely disable DirectX in quicktime preferences (use safe mode/GDI only), and even that is not 100% reliable.

Here are typical scenarios:

Open a set on screen 1, video window playing on screen 2, move video window to screen 1 --> video playback freezes. move back -- still frozen. Move the video file under the cursor in the arrange -> seems to fix this. Sometimes Live crashes during this.

Open a set on screen 1, video window playing on screen 2, move another window (e.g. windows explorer) to screen 2 --> Live crashes.

am runnig XP Spp2, latest Live and quicktime, graphics drivers are patched laptopVideo2Go for Nvidia (again, no problems with other video software, including quicktime player itself). The graphics card is Nvidia 8600GS with DDR2 memory. Tested with both DVI and VGA external monitors. My older laptop (ATI mobility Radeon) has no such problems.

Hi,

I can't reproduce that. Are you using 6.0.10? Also, if your former laptop would not behave the same, I'd investigate in the direction of your video card.

Regards,
Amaury

Amaury wrote:Hi,

I can't reproduce that. Are you using 6.0.10? Also, if your former laptop would not behave the same, I'd investigate in the direction of your video card.

Regards,
Amaury

Yes, 6.0.10 and all previous versions do this.

I am investigating, but what exactly can I do? I can't switch video cards in my laptop. I've tried a bunch of different drivers to no avail. Live is the only software that crashes on video playback like that -- as I said, quicktime player works fine by itself. If you guys have one of the latest Santa Rosa PCs with dedicated video cards or one of the newest macbooks booting into XP, you are likely to have a similar graphics chipset (Nvidia GeForce 8600M series). Maybe you can test it on that.

Thanks.