VLC Crashes Sporadically
Posted: 31 Aug 2015 02:55
VLC has been misbehaving as of late after a major overhaul to my gaming rig.
IMPORTANT: The OS, Storage Drives* and Graphics Card remained consistent after the upgrade.
*WD30EFRX Drives (x3) are new, but are unmounted as of yet.
VLC will operate properly for up to 10 minutes. After that, taking it out of full screen, adjusting the volume, pausing (with the space bar, usually) or selecting another window or program will cause VLC to freeze frame with sound continuing or crash out-right or its display will malfunction (causing odd visual behavior like; missing menu or top bar, duplicating the function bar at the bottom of the screen or other similar effects).
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/p7pk ... hsjPlGlwLS
Things I have done so far:
Reset preferences. [x]
Remove VLC and Reinstall. [x]
Remove Nvidia drivers/software and Remove VLC, Reinstall. [x]
Drank a beer. [x]
Altered Nvidia Control Panel settings to force Nvidia to have dominant control of graphics properties over individual applications. [x]
Installed VLC 32bit version for S&G. [x]
Complained loudly to a friend. [x]
Posted on VLC forums. [ ]
Problem persists across multiple media types.
It's fairly obvious this has to do with the hardware change. Is it possible VLC is not yet DDR4-friendly?
Possibly it has something to do with a PCIE 2.0 card in a PCIE 3.0 slot? I know they're backwards compatible but B.C. doesn't mean "trouble-free". Backwards compatibility rears its ugly head somewhere and it isn't always obvious.
IMPORTANT: The OS, Storage Drives* and Graphics Card remained consistent after the upgrade.
*WD30EFRX Drives (x3) are new, but are unmounted as of yet.
VLC will operate properly for up to 10 minutes. After that, taking it out of full screen, adjusting the volume, pausing (with the space bar, usually) or selecting another window or program will cause VLC to freeze frame with sound continuing or crash out-right or its display will malfunction (causing odd visual behavior like; missing menu or top bar, duplicating the function bar at the bottom of the screen or other similar effects).
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/p7pk ... hsjPlGlwLS
Things I have done so far:
Reset preferences. [x]
Remove VLC and Reinstall. [x]
Remove Nvidia drivers/software and Remove VLC, Reinstall. [x]
Drank a beer. [x]
Altered Nvidia Control Panel settings to force Nvidia to have dominant control of graphics properties over individual applications. [x]
Installed VLC 32bit version for S&G. [x]
Complained loudly to a friend. [x]
Posted on VLC forums. [ ]
Problem persists across multiple media types.
It's fairly obvious this has to do with the hardware change. Is it possible VLC is not yet DDR4-friendly?
Possibly it has something to do with a PCIE 2.0 card in a PCIE 3.0 slot? I know they're backwards compatible but B.C. doesn't mean "trouble-free". Backwards compatibility rears its ugly head somewhere and it isn't always obvious.
