Slowdown in Simple Composition (screenshot included)

[Hanna Dean]

i have same specs as you with gtx 980 and antec psu my efter effects run fine even on full mode.

if you have 2 ssd assign 1ssd for writing file and other ssd for reading.
press caps and go to edit / purge all.
right click on composition and disable 3d ray traced.
go to preference and select gpu rather then cpu in display settings.

[James Roth]

Ray Tracing isn’t on, it’s on Classic 3D. I just purged the cache and set Ray Tracing to the GPU (unsupported) and it still basically freezes when I add the camera layer. I just barely managed to undo the action of adding the camera layer and once the camera layer is gone the comp runs fine.

To make a quick test I just created a new composition with a blank white solid, two lights, and a camera layer. I even animated the solid to move away on the z axis and rotated the camera around it while the two lights were shining. Everything worked fine.

What’s going on? :\

[Hanna Dean]

your camera layer what sort of camera is it and by the looks of it , it looks like its inlarged taking up alot of space.

can you go to your camera properties and copy and paste all these data here so i can just copy and past them into mine and se the effect of it.

[James Roth]

All I’m doing is adding a new camera layer at default settings.

I can’t add the camera layer without almost crashing AE so here are the settings before I add it in. I tried my experiment from before (the new composition with 2 lights, camera, and a solid) and added text to it. The comp ran fine, for some reason this comp freaks out.

[James Roth]

I backtracked by deleting both light layers, and disabling the Casts Shadows in Material Options. Left with just the background image and text (in 3D) I added a camera. No problems so far. I added the first and second lights, went to Light settings and entered the values. No problem so far. I enabled Casts Shadows. Again, no problems. With both lights shining, the camera in place, and all the settings enabled, I tuned the final value; camera position. I adjust the last value, the (z) axis of the light. The slowdown happened again, as soon as I adjusted the (z) axis of the first light, the key light.

The location I am moving it to is (x)955, (y)-102, (z)-2000 as per the book instructions. Entering the last value, (z)-2000, immediately creates extreme lag. Is it my hardware not being powerful enough to handle a light at (z)-2000, or is it a bug?

My CPU is maxing out at 4.13 GHz even though task manager reads that it’s working at 15% capacity. ??

[Hanna Dean]

do me one thing rar this project as it is and give it to me i will open it and test it here i have both after effects 2014/15 version.

i told you i have the same specs as you only my gpu and psu is better then yours. and i have 2 ssd.

[Hanna Dean]

so i have the i7 6700k also and in stock my cpu is at 4.0ghz.

my friend let me tell you something . did you over clock your cpu ? yours is at 4.13ghz .
if you over clocked it do u have a good cpu cooler, if not then this is were the problem coming from mate.

[Hanna Dean]

whats happening is your turnng up the value and its using the cpu to render it but since its overclocked and cpu getting heated fast without a good cooler your pc will hang this is the bottleneck double check your overclock settings.

[Hanna Dean]

if i was you il go back to stock 4.00ghz , mine is on that and i have no problems.

before you overclock you should have known the bad side off it ,

1: if not done correctly cpu life is shortened.
2: if cpu gets heated and freezez pc its a bad sign , to much of this and pc wil shut on you and not start again , cpu dead.
3: cpu compound not applied well + cpu cooler to handle your over clock setting + good psu.

[Hanna Dean]

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