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YesuSama
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July 18, 2023
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Low Memory WARNING!!!

  • July 18, 2023
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My computer is configured with 64G of memory, and 90% is allocated to Adobe AfterEffects.I'm using AfterEffects with nothing else open.

 

When I was compositing my project (3840*1920 @59.94 fps), it prompted me out of memory.In my project, there are only 4 shape layers, and there are no expressions, animations, 3D effects.

 

After the insufficient memory warning, my browser, social software crashed one after another, and the whole system also crashed. In the end, I had to restart the computer to solve it.

 

This problem has come up more than once, but this time is the most outrageous. I want to fix the out of memory issue, but I don't see the ‘Reduce cache size when system is low on memory’ button. in Preferences.

 

The AfterEffects version I tried is 23.5

Computer configuration is 12700K,RTX 3080,64G RAM,2T NVME SSD.

System version is Windows 11  Professional Edition 22621.1992

 

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    IkonikFilms
    Known Participant
    October 4, 2023

    Still having issues with this too. AE 2023 has been renamed Memory Leak 5000. Eats 123GB of RAM on render and then doesn't purge when done unless I hit it manually. LOL.

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      平次35517967iczi
      Participant
      February 17, 2024

      I met the same problem 64G  i713700k  rtx3080ti .

      ToolfarmJP
      Community Expert
      ToolfarmJPCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 18, 2023

      Would you open TaskManager and check what application and activity consume the physical memory?

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      YesuSamaAuthor
      Participant
      July 18, 2023

      Yes, I have opened TaskManager and Task Manager in Windows to check the specific memory usage. Apart from AfterEffects, there is no additional overhead.
      I encounter this problem often after AfterEffects is placed in the background for a period of time and then used.
      There may be a 15-second 4k composition, which contains only five shape layers, and a yellow reminder of "I hope I release it because of insufficient memory" will appear at the bottom of the preview page. This problem just happened. And I opened TaskManager and Task Manager, the memory usage is not even 50%.

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        Rick GerardCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        July 18, 2023

        Try opening Preferences/Memory and Performance. Shortcut: Alt/Option + Ctrl/Cmnd + ;

         

        Try setting memory for other applications to an even multiple of 4 GB. Try 4, 8, or even 12. The pipeline is about 4GB wide, and AE doesn't seem to like it when part of their processing is sent down part of a memory pipe. Evey if you close everything but AE, something is running in the background. 

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        YesuSamaAuthor
        Participant
        July 18, 2023

        Yes, that's how I set it up. My computer is 32G*2, memory 64G. I allocated 56G for AfterEffects and 8G for other applications.
        At first I thought it was because the resolution of my compositing was too high, and I planned to upgrade the memory to 128G, but when I was doing a sketch, a few simple shape layers also had a warning of insufficient memory, I thought it might be a software setting Something went wrong.

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