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Tips on how to improve systems proformance
Hey guys,
I’ve just recently got my pc together…I’m mostly using AE and i wanna see if I’m using it to it’s full capability. Here’s what I got..
Quad core 6600
8 gig ram
3x 250 gig raid 0 (drive F)
500 raid 1 (drive E)
80 gig (drive C)
Quadro fx 540
XP 64
AE CS3Now something is wrong here because it seems that this system is only slightly faster than my old computer that only had 512 ram and wasn’t even dual core…
Now my drive F has the source footage and I use it for the cache. I save my project on drive E. OS amd AE run of drive C. Is this right? Should i have my source footage on drive E instead? Would that speed up the raid 0 on drive F. I was told to have AE on the same drive as the OS. Would it run better if I had it running on the E drive?
I should mention that I have NP 2 running. I think that this is a cool plugin but I need to iron out some creases. Now AE says when it starts up that i only have 4 gig of ram. Is that right? I can’t tell if NP sees it all but I’m guessing it does. Any way to tell. I haven’t got quicktime installed. Is that a problem? There’s a way around it but I haven’t got to that yet.
For example. I’ve got some mini dv footage. As soon as I add a MB look suite effect on. I’m getting 3.2 frames per second. Is this standard? As I had no idea of what to expect but I was hoping for something a bit beefer than my last system.
Are there any obvious things that I have missed here. I can understand that with NP you can do heaps of background stuff and I’ll get into the swing of that soon.
Also I’m going to overclock the quad from 2.4 to 3.0 but I’m waiting till everything is running smoothly.
Any help would wonderful..Maybe this could be a helpful guide to noobs like myself to help get their systems running more efficiently.
Cheers
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Thomas,
Did you ever figure this out??? I have the exact same problem as you, but the really lousy performance is even more embarrasing because I have:
New Dell T7400 running WinXP 64 bit
32 GB of 800MHz FBDIMM RAM (Yes, that’s true!)
4 SAS 15K drives in Dual RAID 0 configurations
Dual Quad Core 3.2 GHz processors.Just like you, I have a much slower system (a Dell Vostro with a dual core at 2.16 GHz and 4 GB RAM) that can do about 18 fps on the exact same footage that I do about 3.2 fps with on this incredibly fast system!
So I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong (I’ve only had the system for a day now).
There are three things I can think of:
1) Make sure the video driver really is up to date (mine definitely isn’t so I’ll be upgrading it once I get home today – yes, that’s my home system!)
2) Try changing the number of cores that AE works with since there have been some issues when you go over 4 cores. There is info about this I believe in the readme that comes with it. I might try making it see only 4 cores or 6 maximum instead of 8 since the potential problem can happen when going over 6 cores
3) Use Adaptive Resolution in the preferences
These are the things I’m going to try tonight.
A few other points: I noticed with this setup that AE was barely using any of the other cores even when multi-processing was turned on (checked using Windows Task Manager under Processes). Also, (and this would definitely be a problem), each AE process was only using anywhere from 200 – 400 MB when I should have been doing as much as 3 GB each! (8 cores * 3 GB per process = 24 GB RAM out of a total of 32 GB)
When I downloaded the trial of Nucleo Pro 2 and did a Fast Render it rendered far faster and each process consumed a full 2 GB. However, the speed was only about 2.31 times faster than my dual core 2.16 GHz system so it still doesn’t seem right.
Anyway, that’s all for now.
Again, have you found out anything else?
Thanks!
Brendan
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