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AE7 has lead to a 75% decrease in productivity due to poor performance! Help!
Hi
I’ve used AE for some years now, but since installing v7, productivity has slowed to a crawl.
My machine is a Windows machine, running XP SP2, AMD Dual Core 4200, 3 gig RAM, 600 gig RAID array, Nvidia 6800 graphics card driving two monitors.
I consider this an ok machine to be running AE, but I have to always work at 1/4 resolution even when simply positioning elements as there’s a delay of several seconds while it updates the comp view which just causes frustration (there’s no chance it’ll let me just drag something around and let it go when I’m happy with it – AE seems to like to stall a bit and thereby drop the item on its own as it’s using so much CPU time that the mouse driver no longer registers that I’m still holding the button down!).
I was wondering whether it might be because I’m driving two monitors from the one graphics card, but these issues do seem to have become apparent since upgrading to v7. I’ve got all relevant updates for AE, and the graphics card drivers are the very latest.
If anyone can offer any advice at all it’d be gratefully received.
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5 Replies
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I have a similar setup but AE 7 is fine and faster than AE 6.5.
I can only suggest it may have something to do with OpenGL or your video drivers.
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You could try turning OFF the OpenGL preview. You can switch between OpenGL and Software in the preferences. I’ve had issues with OpenGL and only use software. For simple comps OpenGL seems ok, for more advanced comps OpenGL seems to get “swoped” quite quickly.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I thought it might be something to do with open GL – whether I try it with open GL on or off it makes no difference to performance at all.
I’ve also noticed problems with complex comps with it on that it doesn’t render transfer modes properly at all, which is a pain!
I should also have mentioned that it seems extremely slow to render also.
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I was having similar problems and after reading another post in which someone else was having an issue, I turned my Maximum RAM Cache size up to 100% and AE 7 is very fast now. Not sure if this will help you or not but definately check it out. I think that by default it is set to 60% or something like that.
The setting is found in Edit/preferences/memory & cache/Maximum RAM Cache Size
Good Luck
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Thanks for that – it seems to have done the trick! Things are moving fast now, even in 3D. Really appreciate everyone’s advice.
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