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AE 6.5 slow on Dual Xeon!
I’m still having problems with AE’s performance on my 3.0GHz Dual Xeon PC w/ 2GB RAM. The hourglass seems to appear every five minutes or so, and will stay on the screen for 2-3 minutes!
It’s gotten to the point where I’m purging the RAM constantly. I just can’t believe this is really necessary on a Dual Xeon!
Is there anything I should double check as far as my settings are concerned? Under Preferences > Memory & Cache I have the Max Memory Usage set to 100% and the Max RAM Cache Size set to 65%. I believe these are the only settings I’ve tweaked.
My OS is Win XP Pro.
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Did you try the free upgrade to 6.5.1 from Adobe?
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I reinstalled 6.5 roughly four weeks ago, hoping that would help, so I currently have 6.5.0.97 installed. I can’t remember if I had the 6.5.1 upgrade installed prior to reinstalling 6.5.
Is 6.5.1 supposed to have speed improvements?
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Well, it was supposed to alleviate the 6.5 Beach Ball of Death (BBOD) on Macs, so maybe it cures stalling on Windows. Couldn’t hurt …
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Im having the same exact problem as you and I have 5 gigs of RAM. It should be really fast. Very disappointed here.
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5 GB, and still slow? Now that’s depressing.
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Just a technical note:
Large amounts of RAM does not speed up renders to disk. It makes some renders possible by allowing large images and layers to be loaded into RAM before rendering to disk.
With AE, the processor has the most effect on renders to disk. Renders in general, in fact.
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And AE accept only a max. of 3GB when you tweak your System and AE a little.
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Well, I don’t see the 6.5.1 upgrade for PC on Adobe’s web site. They have the Mac upgrade, but no PC upgrade.
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Googling “after effects” and “6.5.1” led to this link.
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Honestly, I Googled it myself, but I never found that page! Thanks!
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