Been having terrible issues since installing Windows 8.1...

[Sayoria]

Okay, here's what's going on.

I got a new Asus laptop a little over a month ago... (12/29) and everything has been going peachy. Eventually, my editing program (Sony Vegas 12 Pro) started crashing once in a while, and since I save a lot, I thought nothing of it. Well, my laptop kept ragging on me about "updating to Windows 8.1" through the microsoft store.... so I did.

Big mistake.

Since then, I have had programs laggy as Hell, and to make matters worse, I have an AMV deadline coming up. Today, I tried booting up Vegas, and I got stopped at " " and down in the corner, a bubble popped up saying "Display Driver Intel HD graphics Drivers for Windows 8(R) stopped responding and has successfully recovered" .... I fixed it by rebooting, but Vegas is booting up slower than usual, and I'm afraid more problems are just going to arise, since I have things crashing more than normal. I have ran virus scans and malware scans (Webroot and MalwareBytes).... and nothing, so it's not that.

Anyone have any advise to get my conditions better here? I know nothing Windows 8 just yet (still only a month in on using it) so however I can make my program more compatible for the laptop would be fantastic.

[Pwolf]

What version of Vegas? Are all your programs laggy or specific ones? Are all your drivers up to day? What's the laptop model?

[Pwolf]

What version of Vegas? Are all your programs laggy or specific ones? Are all your drivers up to date? What's the laptop model?

[l33tmeatwad]

Updating the drivers or rolling them back to a previous version would be things to try and see if it fixes the issue. Disabling hardware acceleration in any application that allows you to do so would help prevent crashing. If these things do not fix it then your graphics chip is may be going bad unfortunately. You could try running a graphics card stress test to see if it is the hardware or if it's just that particular application. I've seen this error before and it is typically either the application or the hardware.