[Kevin Crowley]

I have a QuadCore2 with 4GB Ram using Windows XP. When I load AE it only recognizes 2GB of RAM (I know about the 3GB switch – not using it). When I turn my memory & cache to say, 900MB and enable Multiprocessing it says one more processor will be used, which is fine. But the end result with RAM preview is slower than not using multiprocessing. Before it even starts rendering, it takes about 30 seconds (I realize this is the other instance being launched) but even when it is rendering, each frame renders slower than without multiprocessing. Also, from what I understand that initial 30 second delay should only happen the first time you preview, but it happens every time.

Does this sound right? Is it just my ram that is the bottleneck?

Thanks.