AE bugs out from "running out of memory"

So I reset my PC a few weeks ago and I freshly installed AE as well as my other softwares. Now while working AE randomly just runs out of memory and black screens my monitor for a few seconds, then gives me the whole error message shtick. I'm literally working with simple text layers and shape layers. No heavy VFX (although this shouldn't happen with that either). Changing the amount of memory AE can use in the settings doesn't help anything, nor does setting the AfterFX.exe task in task managers' priority to Low, as I intitally thought was helping. I'm running 32 GB RAM, 5800x3D, 3060 ti. What could i do to fix this?