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8gig octocore and clueless
I just set up an 8gig octocore and I’m not finding any impressive render speed improvements. I hope that I have it configured incorrectly, otherwise my boss with shoot me.
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Do you have multithreading enabled in the AE CS3 prefs? I don’t think it’s automatically switched on. I’m not lucky enough to have CS3, or a 8-core workstation alas. 🙁
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yep, you need to go to the multiprocessing preference in ae and enable it. it will tell you how many additional processors will be used with the current ram cache settings. if it doesn’t say 7 additional processors, then you can set your ram cache in the memory/cache settings preference, lowering the ram cache to 1gb or less (8gb / 8cores = 1gb).
if you want to check your performance against others, barefeats.com has a graph benchmarking various macs with multiprocessing on and off and a link to the old totalbenchmark project that has been used for benchmarking ae for a few years now. so you can compare directly with those results, and show your boss the difference between 8-cores multiprocessing versus the standard ae render engine.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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