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Paula283065392aat
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November 25, 2023
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8GB RAM for Installed RAM only!

  • November 25, 2023
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Hi all, hoping someone can help. I have an issue whereby my 'installed RAM' for Premiere is only 8GB. I'm assuming that is shared by other applications from Adobe. I have a new laptop and it's not lacking in memory, so I'm wondering how so many people have 16GB of installed RAM in the first place? How do I change this so that all my Adobe products have a bigger RAM pool? 8GB of RAM essentially means I can't do anything, video lags even with proxies!

 

I know that you can go to Preferences-->Memory and scale down the RAM reserved for other applications but this does nothing if the installed RAM is only 8GB! I'm not 100% sure how to change this, but I could do with at least allocating 16GB for Adobe.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Paula.

 

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    RjL190365
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    November 25, 2023

    In addition to what Ann stated, does your system have a discrete GPU at all? Or does it rely solely on integrated graphics?

     

    If it's the latter, then keep in mind that all integrated graphics steal a lot of system RAM for itself, and thus that amount of RAM becomes completely unavailable for apps to use due to Windows memory management shortcomings.

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    Paula283065392aatAuthor
    Participant
    November 25, 2023

    Looks like integrated. I'll have to look at adding RAM, cheers!

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 25, 2023

    If you want more RAM, you need to physically install more ram into your computer.

    As of now, you have only 8 gig. You cannot magically assign more ram if your computer does not have it.

    Post a screenshot of your computer specs. (system).

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      Paula283065392aatAuthor
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      November 25, 2023

      Ok, that's fine. That's all I needed to know. I don't expect to magic any RAM in. If I need to get more, I need to get more. That's all I needed to know. Thanks.

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