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nijat5D2C
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February 10, 2022
Question

Adobe After Effects painfully slow on a decent PC.

  • February 10, 2022
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Helloo All,

I have Adobe After effects installed on a fairly new PC. I have tested with the multiprocessing settings and GPU enabled instead of CPU but the thing that is very frustrating is that when I scrub through the timeline in a video it is very slow and stuttering. The quality also jumps back to 1/8 and gets pixelated.

Main Specs:

  • Intel Core i5 3570 / 3.4 GHz

  • Kingston HyperX blu 16GB DDR3

  • GeForce GTX 770 - 2 GB GDDR5

  • ASRock Z77 Extreme4 Mobo

  • Samsung 840 Pro Series SSD 120GB (OS Disk)

  • Kingston SSDNow V300 SSD 128 GB (Adobe Cache disk)

  • Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 1TB (Media Disk)

anyone has a suggestion what it can be?

Thanks

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
February 13, 2022

Agree with Mr. Jqke... The outdated GPU alone could cause all sorts of issues since NVidia stopped issuing fresh drivers for older models a while ago and a core5i system is perhaps a bit less than ideal for multiprocessing. On such a system I'd simply turn off MFR, as the benefits would be minor, if any at all.

 

Mylenium

    Jqke
    Jqke
    Legend
    February 12, 2022

    Sorry, but this PC isn't that good. It has some very VERY old parts.

     

    If you want it to run faster, empty your disk cache and make sure your memory is allocated to the most it can be. Also check out the fast preview section (the little lightning icon below the preview) and set everything to "faster".

     

    ~Jake

    ~Jake
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      nijat5D2CAuthor
      Participant
      February 17, 2022

      thank you jack! i apply this and the speed improved a little bit.

        nishu_kush
        nishu_kush
        Legend
        February 21, 2022

        Hi nijat5D2C,

         

        Agree with what the experts suggested. However, we can do some tests and see if we can make it work better on your computer. Please share the following details so that we can troubleshoot the issue better:

        • What's the exact version of After Effects you're using? Was the previous version working fine?
        • Is the playback/RAM Preview working as expected? If possible, please share a screen recording of the issue.
        • What happens if you disable Hardware Accelerated Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels in After Effects Preferences > Display?

        We're here to help, just need more info.

         

        Thanks,

        Nishu

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