• Adobe After Effects

  RAM question

  Posted by Rob Frenette on January 19, 2009 at 4:59 am

  I just installed 2 new gigs of RAM (had 3 gigs, now have 5). When I go to the Memory and Cache preferences, my Maximum Memory Usage is still only 3.0 GB… is after effects not recognizing the new RAM? Is there any way I can check to make sure all 5 gigs are being utilized?

  Jan Sherlink replied 17 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Roy Messinger

  January 19, 2009 at 6:08 am

  Do you have 32bit or 64bit computer?
  If you have only 32 bit this may be the problem.
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  Rob Frenette

  January 19, 2009 at 6:53 am

  hmm… I’m not quite sure actually. Is 32-bit or 64-bit referring to the graphics card? I’m working on a Mac Pro dual core 2.66 GHz intel machine.
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  Jan Sherlink

  January 19, 2009 at 3:40 pm

  64bit refers to the processor; your’s is 64 bit
  and refers to the OS; OSX is 64 bit

  OSX can only address 3 GB/core,
  So AE can use 3 GB for it’s main program and 3 GB/core for extra rendering power.

  cya,

  Jan

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