Help setting memory for a x64bit OS.

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Help setting memory for a x64bit OS.

Posted by Mark Dalzell on May 6, 2008 at 3:08 pm

Hi Guys,

I recently upgraded to Windows XP Pro x64bit. I noticed that when AE CS3 boots up, it’s still only using 2Gbs of memory.

I read on a GridIron forum that: “Although After Effects is a 32-bit application and is limited to the amount of memory that it can access (2 GB on 32-bit Windows, 3 GB on Mac OS X and 4 GB on 64-bit Windows)”…

Can someone please tell me how to get AE to see 4GB of memory?
I have Nucleo Pro 2 installed but there are times when I really don’t need to use it (for short renders). I would like to have AE use the 4GB availble on my x64bit machine.

Thanks very much.

Regards.

Mark Dalzell

PC Specs:
VisionDAW 4U 8-Core Xeon Workstation
2 Intel QUAD-Core Xeon 5365-3.0GHz, 8MB, 1333MHz Processors
16GB 667MHz Fully Buffered Server Memory Modules (2x2GB)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
WDC 250GB, Ultra ATA100, 7200 rpm, 8MG Buffer Main OS HD
MOTU 24 I/O (main) / MOTU 2408mk3 (slave)
2 WDC 750GB, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 16MG Buffer HD (Samples)
Plexor PX-800A 18X Dbl. Layer DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
Front Panel USB Acess
Integrated FireWire (1394a) interface
Thermaltake Toughpower 850W Power Supply
Dual ESATA Bracket
2 WWDC 750GB, SATA II, 7200 RPM, 16MB Buffer HD (Raid 0)
3xUAD1 Universal Audio Cards
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT, 512MB,
PCI-Express, DUAL-DVI Video Card
Dual 25.5″ Samsung 2693HM LCD HD Monitors

Mark Dalzell replied 17 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Mark Dalzell
May 6, 2008 at 9:50 pm

Disregard. I got it.
Pat Jaeger
May 7, 2008 at 6:47 am

you do know that you can get after efftecs to use all 16GB of your RAM by enabling multiprocessing dont you? If not then you can set after effects to use a certain amount of RAM per core (usually 2GB per core i think) and it will render multiple frames simultaneously.
Mark Dalzell
May 7, 2008 at 2:33 pm

Pat,

Thanks for taking time to reply. Yeah, I’m hip to the Mulitprocessor in AE. I have Nucleo Pro 2, therefore I’m not
engaging this feature at the moment.

Best.

Mark
Don Logan
July 18, 2008 at 3:35 am

you can get AE to see and use 16GB RAM? Please do tell? I thought it was still a 32 bit application.

Thanks

Don
Mark Dalzell
July 18, 2008 at 8:56 pm

Don,

Under preferences, multiprocessing tab, give you a description about
this. I have Nucleo Pro 2 installed. This runs as a plugin inside
After Effects. I utilized all of your CPU and RAM. It’s not cheap but
if you’re a power user, you may want to check it out.

I’m not sure exactly if AE utilizes all the systems resources like NP2 does. But I have Dual Quad Core Zeon 3Gb Processors and 16GB of Ram installed. NP2 uses all of it.

Hope this helps.

Mark

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