Congratulations Adobe, once again.

[P.M.B]

I'd like to congratulate Adobe and the AE team for their latest release of After Effects which cannot playback audio or simple text/shape animations in real time even at third resolution and fully cached.  Puff out your chests, pat yourselves on the back & keep up the great work 🙂 

[P.M.B]

I literally cannot express my frustration.  I'm trying to edit a word out of the audio.  The workspace set a 5 second loop.  On a quarter resolution (which doesn;t matter because i turned off every other layer) and AE cannot play the audio the same way twice.  It pre-loads, drops frames.  What kind of garbage cannot play back 5 seconds of audio the same way twice even when fully "cached"?  Jessus H!   The pre-load was there in previous versions but it's gotten x100 worse since you all "improved it".  What a joke.  Pathetic!

[Dave_LaRonde]

I feel your pain.  But as one who has been around the block a few times, you're probably aware of the standard responses: update your drivers, make sure you have the most current version, wave a dead chicken over your head under the light of the full moon, etc......

...and as one who has been artound the block a few times, the most important one:  never, EVER get rtid of the previous version until you're damn sure the new version is going to work.

I'm just now getting around to working with CC 2019.  I don't like it.  They did away with features I used all the time in previous versions.

[P.M.B · Accepted solution]

Thanks Dave,

My apologies to Adobe and the AE team, once again. 

Boy is my face red.  Turns out it was a conflict with my audio drivers all along.  I'm just glad I never posted my original response to your response and the evisceration of Adobe that it was, instead deciding to test my audio drivers first. :).

So, so sowwy.  I can be a little moody 🙂