Comments on: After Effects & RAM 101

By: graymachine

graymachine — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:30:20 +0000

It will only help with OpenGL interaction or OpenGL rendering. Most of what we do in AE is all CPU based, which is why you don’t seem much effect. However, some newer plug-ins coming out are really taking advantage of the GPU, like Shapeshifter from Mettle or VideoCopilot’s upcoming element.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:23:21 +0000

Does the ram in your graphics card effect ram preview at all? I was looking at a graphics card with 2gigs of ram (I already have 12 gigs of regular ram in my Mac quad core) and was wondering if the better graphics card will increase performance?

Thanks for the wonderful info!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:10:37 +0000

There’s really no help I can offer. I know very little about diagnosing Windows problems.

By: richard ziegler

richard ziegler — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:13:18 +0000

um i have a problem… i followed the instructions in the link to the video on getting more ram to work in after effects and now it stuffed up my screen, it says my drivers were written for a previous version of windows yet it hasn’t changed. please help im stuck at 4bit graphics with 800×600 rez! its a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT

By: rob vz

rob vz — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:23:33 +0000

Couldn’t understand why AE CS3 was taking ages to start up a RAM preview.

Multiprocessing check box was the problem.

Thanks for the great advice.

By: J

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:56:30 +0000

I’m still a bit confused. Must be my age.

Just to clarify, when stating “You should have more than 4Gb RAM in your computer” – that doesn’t apply to Win XP 32-bit systems does it? Because as far as I understand, any more than 4Gb is not addressable by WinXP 32-bit, so After Effects wouldn’t see it either.

Or am I wrong? We have AE running on a WinXP 32bit system with 2 x Dual Core Xeon processors and 4Gb RAM. No point in increasing the RAM as far as I can see. Better to get a 64bit system.

By: Lavona Scipio

Lavona Scipio — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:14:53 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:02:12 +0000

Universal “speed” is probably not the right way to look at it. RAM previews and renders will increase in speed, as those are the processes that use multiple processors & more RAM. Interaction with the application will mostly be the same until it moves to CS5 and 64 bit.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:23:39 +0000

This is probably a dumb question, since the article pretty much explains everything. But just make things sure: so all I need to do is get a large RAM, like 12GB and then change that option in AE? That’s all and my speed will increase?

By: James Kamotho

James Kamotho — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:22:16 +0000

Thanks man for the great tips I have a 2GB and will definitely try and get to 4GB soon because this software if giving me such a headache. Does it help when you add a graphics card?