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Stimpy
07-31-2008, 08:44 AM
anyone have any experience with this ? i'm on win xp using cs3, and its been working fine for a month or so. these days though, as soon as after effects is using 1.4 - 1.5 gig of mem it just freezes up.
before it used to tell me that the ram was full or start deleting old frames out of its cache, these days it just stops.

anyone have experienced something similiar ?
Mylenium
07-31-2008, 11:13 AM
Is the cache full? If so, clean it out via the prefs. Also look into the media cache in case you are usiung media that needs to be conformed (HDV and MPEG mostly). This, too, could cause any number of oddities. Besides that, the same old gag: trash the prefs.

Mylenium
DecWest
07-31-2008, 11:22 AM
Have you created a storage overflow folder? This always helps. As a top tip I ALWAYS 'Purge' my buffers prior to a render. It just seems to stop any stupid crashes (on CS2)
Stimpy
07-31-2008, 02:39 PM
its fine when rendering actually.. rendered 4000 frames at HD res and no problems there. just when normally working with it, doing a preview, scrubbing the timeline, as soon as it hits the 1.5 gig mark it will just die.
beaker
08-01-2008, 12:13 AM
turn on the /3gb switch in windows.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%2F3gb+switch&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
erilaz
08-01-2008, 01:44 AM
turn on the /3gb switch in windows.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%2F3gb+switch&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I actually found performance/stability was worse after turning this feature on.
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