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  • performance gradually decreases during session (purge doesn’t fix)

    Posted by Adam O’hern on June 9, 2015 at 7:15 pm

    Hi All,

    My performance drops gradually over the course of a session to the point that it’s unusable after half an hour or so. Restarting AE fixes it every time.

    I’ve tried Edit > Purge > All Memory & Disk Cache, but to no avail.

    Other suggestions?

    Many thanks!

    Michael Szalapski replied 10 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    June 9, 2015 at 9:22 pm

    What are your computer specs? What is the full version number of AE? What effects are you using in your compositions? Are your compositions set to the standard renderer?

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  • Adam O’hern

    June 9, 2015 at 10:20 pm

    You mean you can’t use your mind powers to download my computer specs?

    (facepalm)

    I was having the problem in AE 2014.0. Just updated to 2014.2, so we’ll see if that helps (haven’t tried yet).

    Model Name: iMac
    Model Identifier: iMac14,2
    Processor Name: Intel Core i7
    Processor Speed: 3.5 GHz
    Number of Processors: 1
    Total Number of Cores: 4
    L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
    L3 Cache: 8 MB
    Memory: 32 GB

    Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
    VRAM (Total): 4096 MB

  • Walter Soyka

    June 10, 2015 at 1:06 am

    [Adam O'Hern] “I was having the problem in AE 2014.0.”

    Ae 13.0 (CC 2014.0) had a memory leak when scrubbing audio [link].

    Walter Soyka
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  • Adam O’hern

    June 10, 2015 at 1:37 am

    Ahhhh that would have been it, since I was indeed scrubbing audio. Assuming it’s fixed then. Fantastic! Thanks!

  • Michael Szalapski

    June 10, 2015 at 1:26 pm

    Huzzah!

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