CA nor responding or extremely long prepare times?

I am having a serious slow down in worktime due to every little change I make to a puppet or original file Animator comes to a grinding halt. 10-15 min prepare times or the program going non responsive. I have a fairly aggressive gaming rig, with 16 GB of Ram. I can run Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere simultaneously with no lag, but Character Animator sucks ram and works at a crawl. Anyone else having this issue?