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  • Steve Roberts

    April 4, 2005 at 10:40 pm

    Got Norton Utilities/Antivirus? If so, try switching off auto-protect.

    Steve

  • Annaël Beauchemin

    April 5, 2005 at 3:49 am

    Go in System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Options -> Processor Speed and set it to highest. It won’t increase the render speed, but it increases the “snapiness” a bit.

    As to why the update can’t find AE… did you reinstall all your apps from scratch when you switched to your G5 ? Something is wrong in the AE installation for sure.

    The stall when you render could be hardware. I had this happen when my hard drive gone bad. If you get system hang here and there when acessing the hard drive, run Disk Utility and check the SMART status to see if the drive has a problem. In my experience (not with the G5 tho), RAM problems does either kernel panics or unexpected application quits, not application hangs. But if you purchased non-Apple ram, make sure it was either made for G5s or that it has a latency of 3 (CAS 3).

    You might also reduce the AE image cache a bit. Often, when it’s set to 100%, it goes into VM and performance drops alot. When this happens, you can hear the system drive work like crazy.

  • Martti Ekstrand

    April 5, 2005 at 2:15 pm

    [Steve Roberts] “Got Norton Utilities/Antivirus? If so, try switching off auto-protect”

    Better yet, delete Norton altogether. Symantec hasn’t gotten a grip on how to code for OSX yet. Their stuff creates far more problems than it supposedly solves.

    The problem could also involve your ram sticks. OSX is more sensitive to ram defects than OS9 and nowhere is it more noticeable than in After Effects as it really crams the memory with data. Try removing pairs one at the time and see if you get any changes. Also don’t give AE more than max 75% of available ram and never more than 2 gig as it can’t use more anyway until OSX is 64bit all through.

    cheers

  • Alisa Placas

    April 5, 2005 at 2:39 pm

    I managed to install the 6.5.1 by creating a new administrative user and doing it under that log in.
    And everything seems to be working MUCH better now.
    The animations that were stalling all rendered clear through last night.

    It is frustrating working alone and being THE tech person when you aren’t a tech person at all.
    This forum has been a sanity saver for me many times.
    Thank you all so much for the help!

    Alisa Placas
    Lucid Animation
    Cambridge, MA

  • Michael Del rossi

    April 5, 2005 at 2:41 pm

    glad you got it working
    mdr

  • Miller

    April 6, 2005 at 9:41 am

    I don’t recall now how the slots are numbered in my G5, but I do remember the pairs need tobe physically located from inside out or outside in…so your config should be…

    256
    256
    512
    512
    256
    256

    or

    512
    256
    256
    256
    256
    512

    starting from the innermost slots and moving outward.

    If your RAM is in a row as you’ve indicated, this certainly could manifest in some strange behavior…

    Just my thoughts…

    Chris

  • Miller

    April 6, 2005 at 9:45 am

    Threw Norton off my G5 in matter of hours after installing…worthless in OSX. Immediately started having difficulties never seen before…

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