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July 1, 2024

Massive memory leak on AE 24.5 (and before i think?)

  • July 1, 2024
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Hello! I've got myself an issue, been a while since I've needed to use ae but needed it recently... ae alone has nearly been crashing my pc, bit confused.

What happened?
Had ae on version 24.3 originally.
Ae sluggish... bit odd,  Checked in with task manager and my cache drives.
Memory peaks at 29,000 + ... odd
Figured I'd reconnect to my cache drive (ssd).
Cleaned cache drives, moved them around, no change - No change. 
Updated to version 24.5 - No change.
Memory leak or malware? - did a scan, nothing, started googling for results.
Found advice, turned off auto cache frames.

Unsure what else to do? - Specs below.

 

Windows 10, IntelR CoreTM i7-800k CPU @ 3.70GHz, 6 core
Installed memory, 32GB, x64 system.

Bit frustrating, can't seem to find any other solutions :c

thanks - Tex

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֑nubnubbud
Inspiring
July 6, 2024

a big part of it, is that After Effects is super slow and bad at rendering and pretty much none of its effects use multithreading or GPU, so they came up with this genius™ method of speeding things up called "throw everything in RAM, and spin up a copy of after effects on every core of the computer™"

Needless to say, this does not fix low GPU utilization, and massively inflates the RAM usage of the program, as well as wasted energy because of the duplicated rendering controllers for every CPU core, which limits the usefulness of CPU's with many small "efficiency" cores.

it's not you, it's adobe, don't forget that. you are breathtaking.

Participant
July 1, 2024

Half solved - navigate to memory & performance - I had an issue with my own memory and the program was taking up the full 32Gb

reduce it and disable multiframe rendering.

This seemed to really help.