• Adobe After Effects

  RAM limit?

  Posted by Dean Modino on December 18, 2005 at 8:57 pm

  I Have a MAC G5 using OS 10.4.
  I just bought 2GB of RAM now I have 4.5GB
  although the RAM is available in other apps,
  AE says that only 2GB are available.
  Is there a limit to the amount of RAMAE can use?
  thanks, Dean

  Tim Kurkoski replied 20 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tim Kurkoski

  December 19, 2005 at 11:28 pm

  It’s not a limit of AE, but a limit of the OS. OS X is limited to allocating 2 GB of RAM to any single application (Windows also, though there’s a hack you can use to get up to 3 GB). My understanding is that this doesn’t prevent the RAM from trying to address past that 2 GB, it’s just a matter of how much the OS reserves for the application.

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