Very slow and crashing after updating to 2022 version

After the auto update back in November, I went back to v 18.4 and for over three months I have been happily working. However, I recently had to update to the most recent version in order to acess the team project feature.  I had hoped that the recent updates would have solved the issues introduced with the 2022 version.  But no.  It is still impossible to preview in real time, and still frequently crashes while performing simple tasks.  

So back to 18.4 I go.  Unfortunately, the team project feature only works on the newest version, so I suppose I will have to waste valuable space by having two versions of After Effects living on my computer.

I have to say, I am very dissapointed.  This thread has been here for over three months with no solutions. 

I feel like our loyalty means nothing to them, we are just another subscriber, another dollar in their pocket. 

Yes, same problem here, powerful pc but AE using 90% memory for no reason.
I've been checking this thread since Nov and what makes me even more p***** is that the Adobe barely responding.
ADOBE PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY PAYING FOR YOUR SW. What the hell is this?...

How can you even release this BROKEN update? This big company, it's honestly crazy and should be used as an example how to NOT sell and develop product, joke SW, joke company.

2022.2 feels put together with tape, everything feels slow and clunky and it takes a minute to quit and often crashes on quit. MFR is a great addition though, I waited years for it, and is saving me a lot of time.

But how come when I use Cinema or Resolve, the software feels "solid" and responsive (despite the very occasional crash) and in AE I am panic saving every minute fearing crashes/lags/freezes?

I am experiencing the same lag with PS and AI, which I use all the time besides AE which is my main tool.

I don't want to complain, I know it's a complex (and old) piece of software and there's no magic, but I hope the dev team at will soon focus 100% on performance and stability instead of adding extra features, which are welcome but useless if the software at the root is unstable.

This is not only a personal opinion, I'm seeing every day plenty of professionals complaining online.

Source: I make a living working on AE several hours per day and I have a powerful workstation with bare minimum software installed (no games etc...).

Too slow for me too, the other versions were fast and excellent, I ended up migrating and I regretted it but I can't go back, it's too slow.

I have faced the same problem with this new version and keep using 21 version.

But i discover the Beta Version of AE is more stable than the regular version, i think that adobe already make a few corrections and soon the will deliver. For now i started using the Beta and works fine! no crashs, no slowing down, no super consuming of memory, etc. 

If anyone tried to used the Beta version, say what think about. 

Another tip for everyone, keep your preview area (work area) small when you want to play back a section you're working on. Otherwise it will try to process the entire area while playing back. ie don't have 2 minutes of work area when you want to just check 5 secs of animation.

Might seem obvious but it makes a big difference.

Based on what I have seen on my system. It seems to be a memory allocation issues not a memory use issue. 2022 Doesn't seem to allocate memory correctly. For example my error said 8 MegaBytes were not available causing to stop working while there was a full 10 Gigabytes available in RAM at the time. 

I have contacted support about this but the ordinary run around started where they told me to wipe settings, cache, uninstall. All of which did nothing as usual. So its back to 2021, which is disapointing because multiframe rendering would have been pretty helpful.

I have been experiencing freezing and crashing my display driver (for no discernable reason) since AE 2021, all of last year I worked in 2020 because of this. When the new and improved 2022 came out I hoped it would be fixed.... spoiler alert, still no. Earlier I walked to the kitchen for a coffee, came back and the display driver had crashed, my man was just chilling there. The severity varies, but everytime there is a hang up, then the screens go black and come back in various amounts afterwards. Preview is killed in AE, and also Premiere if that is open, and both require close. At least in this latest version, I am able to save and close after, vs before when it would just wait for me to try and save, then finish crashing right before my eyes... I followed all the guidelines to build this machine for AE.... Multiple nvme drives for assets and cache, Ryzen 3900x, 64GB ram, 2080 Super. Something changed between 2020 and 2021 and it has been torturing me slowely ever since.

The only solution so far: going back to 2021 and everything is fine. Same computer, same project, even more plug-ins.. the problem is obvious, isn't'it?

As a whole version 22 is hungrier for memory and cache than 21.

You can disable the green bar from preview rendering and filling up your cache so quickly which helps.

It also seemed to settle down after a re-start.

Multiframe rendering is indeed quicker when rendering direct from AE, but can take hours for the same project when sent to Media Encoder.