My Adobe After Effects uses 100% of my memory after rendering 1 video

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March 17, 2020
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I play this game, I have videos that I import and as soon as I click on one of them and play the video my Memory ZOOMS up to 100% to the point where it either crashes or I don't have enough memory so it asks for more.. if someone can help me it would actually mean alot.. my pc runs every game really well its a good running pc, brand new too be honest and I have 16gb of ram

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richieb96495211

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I have the same only 20 gigs of ram. As little as importing a 2 min clip is all it can take. anything after that like clicking the effects menu will take it too 100% of memory. Ive been using After Effects 2018 for a couple years and all was well, as a matter of fact it worked rather fast on my machine. Now its almost impossible to edit anything and if I do take 4 hours for a small edit I havnt a clue how to render it without the good ,MOV codec so I end up with a 10 gig file that looks washed out. I guess my only choice is to downgrade back to the older version without the new content aware fill and new sensi masking thing. Any Help?

thanks, Richie

Mylenium

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Well, as Martin already said, gaming PCs don't necessarily make for great graphics workstations. That aside, the behavior you are seeing is most definitely not normal and indicates a driver misconfiguration or memory leak. That being the case, you may need to spend some time digging into configurations and possibly update some of the drivers. Also things like overclocking or messing with your graphics card's virtual buffers and memory don't go down well with AE and other professional desktop apps. The keyword of the day is to keep things "conservative" and stable rather than trying to squeeze out every last bit of performance with experimental switches, Registry hacks, optimization tools and what have you. Also, if you are recording/ streaming your games you may want to check your system's CoDecs and the associated capture tools. Some of that stuff is not compatible with AE since it usurps the GPU buffers and messes with hardware acceleration stuff. You may need to turn it off or even uninstall some of that.

Mylenium

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BlakeHortonAuthor

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I just realized I tottaly typed it wrong at the start, I meant that im recording clips and Im trying to import them and they do import its just that as soon as I start to watch the clip like play it after importing it my memory will shoot up all the way too 100%, Here is a picture: of my ram and I will leave the video of my memory going up: