After Effects 2019 Running slow, almost unusable

[Guest]

Hi there, I very rarely need to post on forums as the answer has usually been found, but on this occassion, I'm stumped..

After effects 16..1.2 is pretty much unusable. Even simple things like nudging a text box takes a second or two.

I'm running on an HP workstation, Windows 10 pro, 32gb ram, 1tb ssd, 4gb vram, and a quadro p1000 graphic card. It absolutely breezes through most of my workload, 4k video, hi res images etc but after effects is awful. I have an old mac with an old cs which runs quicker!

I've adjusted every menu I can find regarding displays, performance, rendering, and previews but nothing makes a difference.

Even tried setting the the OS resolution to 1080p instead of 4k to see if the scaling was causing the problem... I'm out of options..Adobe please help!

[Abambo]

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garethb30036187  wrote

Adobe please help!

This is a user to user forum with some Adobe staff participation.

[Szalam]

What are your memory settings?

Screenshots of your preferences and what you've tweaked would help.

[Guest]

Memory settings are fine, 28gb reserved for ae with gdu processing enabled etc.

[OussK]

did you check your PC activity if there is anything run in the background?

[Martin_Ritter]

Are you running plugins, scripts or expressions?

*Martin

[Guest]

No, nothing at all. A fresh download

[Guest]

Yup, I checked that killed all non essential programs and no difference.

[Vishu_Aggarwal]

Try checking the graphics card drivers. Sometimes it causes issues with AE. Also, check the following checklist by Adobe - Improve performance in After Effects

You can even try resetting the preferences as follow -

• Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) while the application is starting.

[Guest]

Yeah I got the latest nvidia drivers before I installed ae.. Thanks for the link though I'll try the checklist ☺

[Niall5FFC]

Try changing your preview settings to 'third' or 'quarter' resolution and to either 'adaptive resolution' or 'fast draft'. You can also set the preview settings to 'skip frames' in order to make the preview caching go quicker.