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casw59149904
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March 15, 2018
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After Effects taking up 90% of my memory and slowing down my pc

  • March 15, 2018
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Hi everybody,

My After Effects slows down my pc for the last 2 days out of nowhere. When I playback the video it renders 1 frame at the time. I think it is because it takes no matter what I do 90% of my memory, without doing anything special on it. I've tried most solutions on this forum yet no change. I was always able to play it back in 'full' and now it has a hard time playing a third. Obviously very annoying. even when writing this and AE in the backstory it is lagging. I have this problem 2 days now and I'm at an internship so it really sucks.

my spec:

1050TI 2gb

8GB Ram

Windows 10 64bit

i7 7700hq 2.80ghz

-Cas

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    David Arbor
    Inspiring
    March 15, 2018

    There's not much information to go on here, but if you were working at Full resolution with no problem previously, then it probably wasn't a very heavy comp. Are you working on a different comp that's more processor intensive?

    Things that would be helpful to troubleshooting this:

    1) Hardware setup, in addition to what you already provided: Do you have a separate drive for caching, and is it an SSD or HDD? What is your app running off of, and what are your project files running off of?

    2) Is your cache drive full?

    3) Full screenshots of the comp you're trying to render. Screen recordings are also helpful.

    4) Are you working in 3D? If so, do you accidentally (or intentionally) have the Cinema 4D renderer selected, rather than the Classic 3D one? This can slow things down greatly.

    After Effects doesn't handily play back much in real time and in full res, so you need to provide much more info. A project file could help too.

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      casw59149904Author
      Participant
      March 15, 2018

      Thank you for you response.

      1) Adobe is completely on my 250Gb ssd with ~30gb free, Adobe has 15Gb cache assigned from me. It is AE 2018 latest update. The save files are on my hdd.

      2)^

      3) It is literally just a comp with a video in it. it does it with every project, heavy or not, so I feel like it has to do something with the settings. The video is 15 seconds long with a 1920x1080 res.

      4) It's not a 3d project, just 2d. Just classic 3d renderer.

      Screenshots:

      Hope this gives a little more insight on it. Thanks

      Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
      Community Manager
      Kevin J. Monahan Jr.Community Manager
      Community Manager
      March 20, 2018

      it seems to be much much better, but it still takes 50% of my memory and some like 30% disk usage. So it still makes my pc lagg sometimes. Not sure if there's anything that you would know of that could help?


      Is your issue solved now, casw? Did our experts help you solve it?

      Thanks,

      Kevin

      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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