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Will more RAM fix the “Power house” error message?
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In the meantime, is there any way to quickly find out which frame(s) were dropped? That’s my least favorite part about the error – not being able to find where it messed up.
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One can always check the timecode. 🙂
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No the powerhouse message is not coming from the amount of RAM you have. I have 24 Gb of RAM and I still get it to. Not only that, but I get it at startup without even a project running. I am on an new 8 core 2.4GHz Westmere. It arrives in both Lion and Snow Leopard. So to be honest it seems more like a software issue than a hardware one.
It seems that Vladimir (on another post here at the cow) found a solution for rendering:
“The only thing that helps me is throttling render to 2 FPS (maximum for me goes at about 4-5), so that it never bottlenecks.”
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Strangely, sometimes the error comes up with a timecode of where it went wrong, and other times, it does not. I honestly haven’t looked carefully enough to when’s what, but I think it depends on source/target render modes. So unfortunately, sometimes I’m left hunting it down manually.
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Let’s keep this thread dead until we know more about 8.1 and if that update will fix the issue.
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8.1 fixes it, you should be fine.
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