Adobe After effects Out of Memory after 10 -20 mins working

[jay1234345]

Hi

i am really started getting angry about this i maybe dont have a 5000 Dollar workstation

but 32 gb Ram and 6 Cores should be engouth to work with that Software in HD right ?

here my system specs

Intel i7 4930K

GTX 1080

32GB RAM

C: 750 SSD EVO

so every time i working in AE or PR but specially AE after 10 -20 mins previewing the program crashes because its out of Memory.

Is there anyway to fix that ?  Sometimes i purge everything and it shows like 2 - 40gb of purging .

[Dave_LaRonde]

Thanks for all the helpful diagnostic information  -- almost none.

How big is your cache?  Are you telling us you only have a lousy 750 GB storage?  Cripes, I almost have that much on my flippin' phone!

[jay1234345]

Ofc not i have  the caching on a 4 TB hard drive

and how can i make that diagnostic information thing again

[jay1234345]

here of a screenshot what is happening . After i recorded four mp4 videos just re rendering mp4 !

[Szalam]

Can we please see a screenshot of your memory settings in the preferences?

Wait...what is that Wise Memory Optimizer thing? That...might cause problems.

[jay1234345]

Hi

that Wise Memory Programm helps sometimes to have not a AE crash

so here my settings

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi jay,

Sorry for this issue. Did you ever find a solution? Please let us know if you have or if you still need help.

Thanks,

Kevin

[jay1234345]

nope still the same problem

[speedy_1410]

hey.
i'm also having the same issue, i know i am extremely late lol. but it's really annoying, i've optimized every single ae setting set for the best perfomance, and my pc specs are about the same as yours.
did you find a solution?

[andz]

200 GB is too much if its from the OS drive.

Try to transfer the Disk Cache to other drive.

[tera_dragon]

I am also having an issue. I find it happens when I playback the composition.

I have 24GB RAM, which should be more than adequate. I am creating animation in 1080p at 24fps.

After playing about 20 seconds of footage.

After clicking export (and subsequent crash)

Error message.

[Dead Taco]

Sooooo, is Adobe working on a fix for this yet?  Still dead in the water after a month of waiting.

Adobe After Effects CC 2018, Photoshop CC 2018, and Illustrator 2018 ALL have this same "Out of Memory" issue.  We even tried loading it up on a system with 64gb of RAM.  Wanna know what happened?  Yup.  Out of memory.

Cripes, man.

[tera_dragon]

OK I think I have fixed my memory issue. I was changing preview quality in the preferences section, but this did nothing.

Instead, under the preview pane there is a small drop down box. I changed this to quarter and now I can preview without memory issues.

[ashh66966916]

I’ve the same problem , 32 gig ram , SSD cashed 240gb

quadro 4000 card .  Ever since I installed 2018,   systen Has been running fine for 4 years ....   all this stupid talk about file sizes and preview res , are adobie Saying  that 80 90 percent of people won’t be able to use this software as 8 or 16 gig is  of ram is pretty standard .  for professionals. 32 64  for sure but it makes no difference ...  tested it on a 128 gig still had the same prblems . It’s shit

[yamamotion]

exact same problem with 2019 AE, full memory and suspended / 16гб kingstone, Asrock pro 3

[arthurh48697603]

Hello Adobe - Same or similar issue with me. Just upgraded GPU to gtx1070 thinking that was it. I had spent several hours with support thinking they had solved the problem with clicking mercury transmit, but no.. started again. (then I bought the 1070) It sometimes crashes AE, other times crashes system. My error msges alter from "out of memory; requested.. etc" to "unexpected store" and others. I will click it shut and more windows pop up with new error msgs. No known action seems to create the problem. Doing relatively simple animation with photoshop files and Character Animator files. Sometimes can have many effects without error, and other times hardly any effects with error. It just happens when it wants to. Been going on for a month now. need to get work done.. please help.

i3-4130 cpu @ 3.40 GHz

GTX1070 8gb

200 gb cache SSD

32gb RAM

[aggressiveRussia]

Hi guys) Your problem is solved easy. In your system (wines 10) there is something that creates phantom employment in RAM. Standard values in AE work poorly!

Simply put change here:

Edit -> Preferences -> Memory

"Ram reserved for other applications" change for more. If you have 3Gb - change to 5 or more. After the changes you should have something like this

"Ram available for AE (Pr,PL and less) 5Gb.

Try to gradually increase. until the problem comes back again. And stop at the value you need, when there is no problem

From Russia with love. Goodluck

[estelkhait]

Hi aggressiveRussia,

Can't thank you enough for your advice, it worked perfectly.

16 Gb RAM, GeForce 940MX.
Set it up to 8/8 Gb for other applications/Ae.

Oddly enough, if your software asks for more - give it less and it performs better!)) 

[octavios67628338]

I love youuuuuuuu

[omarh18494839]

I've been getting the same crashes with the "requesting memory error" over and over. Suddenly, I got an additional error along these lines, "myprojectname requires too much memory to rasterize layers". It finally dawned on me that I had A LOT of layers with the 'continuously rasterize' box toggled on and that is what was sucking up all my RAM. I toggled it off, restarted AE, and my RAM usage went back to a clunky +90% again after a few minutes, BUT it went back down to a smooth and steady 60 - 70% after that. Perhaps AE first uses up all the allocated memory THEN starts offloading to my external hard drive cache? Perhaps it was bottlenecking on all those rasterized frames before? Who knows. It works much better for me now. Hope this helps someone else.

TL;DR If you have a lot of layers with this box (see screenshot below) toggled on, turn it off while you work and just re-toggle it before exporting if you need to.