I have a less-than-ideal setup for
VirtualDub, Windows 10 (latest build), no integrated graphics card, just an Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti, and multiple screens.
For the last few months I've ran into countless issues with trying to get
VirtualDub to capture properly from a Pinnacle USB Capture device. Most of the issues were VirtualDub capture starting with "Overlay" mode, with a scrambled picture, and switching it to the usable "Preview" mode, it would either work, or crash.
If it crashed, I had to reboot and try my luck again. Sometimes it would take 30+ reboots to get it to work. Once I got it working, I would leave it open for at least a few days.
I've tried every trick in the book on this forum, video help, and others.
Today this was happening again and by accident I had VirtualDub on one of my side screens, and BINGO, it worked! I tried a few more reboots to confirm my findings and they were consistent.
My side screen is running 1440x2560 via Display Port, and my primary screen is running 4k via HDMI 2.1.
I wanted to share this knowledge in case anyone else runs into the same problem down the road.