Render error- Timeout when waiting for frame

I see this a older issue in past versions that were fixed-- is it now back? I am having this issue-- I recently updated to Davinci Resolve 16.2.0.054 that was released in the last week.

When rendering (at various times) will get a pop-up error, "Timeout when waiting for frame xxx for recording, frame dropped". Davinci Resolve will then appear to freeze (my render timer starts increasing) if you exit it crashes to background & you must open task manager to end task.

Is this a issue that others are having & may be it be fixed in a update? I recently bought a new laptop with 16 gb (from 8 gb that had many crashes with DV) so I am frustrated to now have this problem. I did run it before the update & had a couple good complete renders before this stared around when I updated to the new version.

My computer stats:
MD Ryzen 7 (AMD 2nd Generation Ryzen 7, 3700U)
16GB Memory
AMD Radeon RX Vega 10
1TB HDD

Thanks in advance for any assist/s!!!

Get the newest release (55). If it persist, try to render to Cineform or DNxHR and tell us if you get through, in case you rendered to H.264 now.

Hey there, I am having the same issues, did you find a solution? I am using version 16.2.0.055 already, never had this issues before this update.

I'm trying the suggestion with Cineon FORMAT and only option I get it RGB 10 bits CODEC.

Will let you know if that works. Have you manage to fix the issue?

With the previous setting mentioned in my previous post it was going take over 15hours to render, so I cancelled it, as that time is not acceptable, I ran it for awhile and the time was not coming down to quickly and it was rendering frame to a single file, which isn't acceptable.

The solution I ended up doing was going back to a previous version of Davinci Resolve 16.1.2.026

I had this issue as well at random points while rendering. I downgraded to version 16.1.2.026 and then it rendered fine for me. Thanks BlackHat!

I'm having the same problem. Running OpenCL for AMD.

Same problem trying to render a 1h30 home video. Managed to finish the rendering 2 times (out of dozens). It seems to be an issue with Ryzen CPUs.

Tryed to render with speed set to 50, didn't got the error, but my PC completely froze at some point and I had to force restart. Tryed again and, success.

Can't say if this wil solve the problem for good, but at least I managed to finish a export.

My System specs are:

CPU : Ryzen 2700X
Mobo: AsRock B450M Pro4
RAM : 2x Adata XPG Z1 8GB DDR4 2666MHz
GPU : MSI Radeon RX580
SSD: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
HDD: Seagate ST2000DM008-2FR102
HDD: Seagate ST31500341AS

Hi there!

The same problem trying to render a 1h video.
Tried several times, nothing helps (render speed, preferences-user-stop when ..., etc.)
No way to render the video.
During the rendering was GPU at 99 % and CPU cca 25 % in Task manager

CPU: Ryzen 5600X
MB: AsRock B550M-ITX
RAM: 2x Corsair 32GB DDR4 3000MHz
GPU: MSI Geforce GT 1030
SSD: Crucial MX500
Windows 10 Pro
Davinci Resolve Studio 17.1.1



After hours I went back to my older notebook and the same video with the same Resolve Studio was rendered without any problem (just so slow).

Notebook is HP 6TP79EA (i7-8565U + 32 GB RAM)
During the rendering was GPU at 10-20 % and CPU cca 75+ % in Task manager.