PC crashing/hardlocking with certain application

[Muhammad Reza]

My PC works normal with anything I throw at it, however for some reason, Sony Vegas Pro likes to crash on me after 3 seconds of rendering (with any video/settings/projects) and 3DMark Time Spy makes my PC either freeze to death or reset while or after loading at some cases. CPU/GPU/RAM usages and temperatures are fine (I have never seen my hottest part, my GPU, go over 67c). Latest BIOS and AMD driver are installed. CineBench, Unigine Valley and Memtest all pass succesfully. Everything else works great, even Firestrike, I don't know what else to do...

My specs are:

• Windows 10 64bit
• MSI Z77A-GD55 (Latest BIOS)
• Intel i5 3450 (stock, locked)
• 2x Kingston HyperX 4GB 1600MHz RAM + 1x Corsair ValueRAM 4GB 1600MHz (12GB Total)
• Sapphire R9 290 (stock, modded with Arctic Accelero Extreme IV cooler)
• Kingston SUV400S37120 120GB SSD
• WD Blue 1TB HDD
• Corsair VS450 (450w + 80 PLUS)

 

(Sorry if my English isn't good)

[Stroal]

Did you attempt to turn off multi core rendering and GPU acceleration of video processing? I haven't used Vegas pro (adobe FTW) in a while, but I'm pretty sure if you hold shift+control and click preferences, that is where the setting should be. 

[Muhammad Reza]

Rendering with "Automatic (Recommended)" or "CPU only" preset is slow but stable, only when I enable GPU acceleration in the rendering tab it makes the entire application crash few seconds after the start of rendering. Kinda odd to see the GPU failing in Vegas Pro while stability being rock-solid in Furmark and games I play.

The GPU temps are also perfectly fine never reaching 70 degrees Celsius (158F) considering AMD saying the R9 290(x) being fine around 95c (203F).

[Stroal]

You might try rolling back your GPU drivers. I'm not sure which version, but that might be the source of the issue. 

[Muhammad Reza]

I will give it a shot tomorrow since downloading drivers take as long as some older games nowadays.

Does my GPU also correspond to my weird freeze/restarts when starting 3DMark Time Spy benchmark?

[Muhammad Reza]

I tried rolling back to Adrenalin-18.3.2 and Crimson-16.12.2, both did not change anything in regard to stability in 3DMark Time Spy. Also, it seems that Vegas Pro does not detect my GPU supporting OpenCL any longer after the driver update, even when forcing GPU acceleration in the rendering tab. It does not show up in preferences.

I can't go any lower than Crimson drivers because I need AMD ReLive which was implemented in Crimson+ (NVIDIA equivalent of Shadowplay).

Wondering if I can also have a power issue, considering i5 3450 has 77w TDP and R9 290 around 300w TDP plus the other things connected to my motherboard bringing total power consumption rather close to 400-450w.