After Effects not detecting dual cores

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After Effects not detecting dual cores

Posted by Wes Obeirne on June 21, 2008 at 5:22 am

Hi all,

Im sorry if this has been discussed before, but i dont think it has becuase its a question specific to my machine (i think).

I went to go render a video clip in regular NTSC as an AVI uncompressed, and the render times that were estimated were rediculas. For a 3.5 minute clip, it was estimating 19 hours.

This lead me to look for ways to speed up the render times so i looked into the OpenGL and multiprocessing options in AECS3. The openGL worked better, but still was giving me 17 hours for the 3.5 minute clip. Heres where it gets really funny. When i went to enable the multiprocessing, the option was not available (it was there, just not available to click on). The description at the bottom of the screen said that i had (0) extra processors available, but 2 PC’s available for use.

Just to make sure, i checked and sure enough my computer has a dual core pentium four processor. Here are my specs:

Pentium 4 dual core 3.06GHz processor
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI graphics card (i know…overkill. But avid needed it, and i got it for a really, really good price)
2GB RAM
500GB internal hard drive + a 250GB internal hard drive
After Effects CS3

Any help or ideas would be very much appreciated!

Thanks alot

Mohammad Taghi karimi replied 17 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Mohammad Taghi karimi
June 21, 2008 at 9:47 am

did u reinstall ur windows?
sorry for my poor poor English typing
first answer
1-press ctrl+alt+delet on ur keyboard then
2-go to performance
3-there have a CPU usage history , OK ( its a box with green wave or something
4-if u see a box in this field ur os had not match with ur cpu
if u have a dual core CPU it must be 2 box
if u have quad CPU it must be 4 box
do u get what I’m saying or?
if not please reinstall ur windows
sec answer
1-go and try grid iron plugin
there answer
1-first very very slowly go and buy a shutgun ( if dont want u can watch shutgun podcast )
2-walk around ur pc very slowly then blowup ur pc

sorry i dont know more than these

Just Try To Best Until You Death
Wes Obeirne
June 21, 2008 at 1:05 pm

thanks for the reply,

When i go into the taks manager, its picking up both cores (there are two boxes with line graphs). Ill give gridiron a download a trial version of nucleao and see if that helps. if it doesnt, im seriously contemplating you shotgun idea.

Any other ideas are more than welcome

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Jan Sherlink
June 22, 2008 at 8:53 am

Are you sure you have a dual-core ?
Pentium 4’s are singlecores with hyperthreading ( looks like dualcore but doesn’t give a performance boost)
If I remember correctly, Pentium D’s were the first dual-cores.
Do you have Raid ? if you’re Media and Output are located on the same disk, you harddisk may choke your system with uncompressed avi’s.
try rendering to another phisical drive or use compression.

cya,

Jan
Tom Scott
June 22, 2008 at 11:00 am

Have U tried re-installing AE?
Wes Obeirne
June 22, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Thanks for all of your responses,

I turns out the it is hyperthreaded, not a dual core. Sorry about that. I think i many need to invest in better CPU.

Thanks again!!!

A defenseman speaking about his recent concussion:
I should fully recover…If i dont, I can always come back as a forward!
Mohammad Taghi karimi
June 22, 2008 at 4:46 pm

then what you want man , that not a shut gun for your pc
for your self ( juz kidding )
ok
if u need any help for choosing hardware post your question and i’ll answer that what you buy is better for any thing something like ae or maya or playing game ( some times ) 😀
bye now

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