After Effects CC Terrible RAM Usage

[sorryboi]

Greetings. I am sorry if this isn't the right place or forum to put this, but I'm going to go on forward. I had been using After effects CC for years, and everything has been fine. Now these last few days AE is ram preview rendering much slower and allowing only a portion to render at once. If i want to render more, I need to scrap what is rendered so far. I can tell that this is a problem with my RAM. I currently have installed 12 GB of DDR3 Ram, 1x 8GB stick and 1x 4GB stick. I always clear my disk cache and purge all memory and restart the program but it never helps. I also use a RAM cleaner tool now. I also clean my %temp% files. Nothing seems to help and the program is nearly unusable since I can't seem to work with just a split second of work. Thanks, Mark.

 

[iamacow]

Those ram cleaning tools are pointless. The second a program closes it should dump whatever is in the ram. Only if a program have a memory leak would those tools be useful.

Having an odd amount of ram shouldn't cause many problems besides running slow. You can also download Memtest86 and run it to see if you memory have errors.

 

[sorryboi]

Those ram cleaning tools are pointless. The second a program closes it should dump whatever is in the ram. Only if a program have a memory leak would those tools be useful.

Having an odd amount of ram shouldn't cause many problems besides running slow. You can also download Memtest86 and run it to see if you memory have errors.

Memtest86 is only for CD Drives and USB sticks if im aware.

 

[k1114]

Memtest = memory test. Memory = ram. It's run off of a cd or usb stick as the os cannot be running to test all ram. But I'm thinking some amount is not right so that won't help. Plus checking amounts is quicker and easier.

Check usable ram in task manager. Check how much ram is being used without ae running and how much ae uses when not rendering. Check ae settings for usable ram amount and then check to see if ram does get used up during rendering. Normally it should fill the ram.

 

[iamacow]

Those ram cleaning tools are pointless. The second a program closes it should dump whatever is in the ram. Only if a program have a memory leak would those tools be useful.

Having an odd amount of ram shouldn't cause many problems besides running slow. You can also download Memtest86 and run it to see if you memory have errors.

Memtest86 is only for CD Drives and USB sticks if im aware.

Yep memtest86 is a boot and go program but that would be the only to truly test the ram. though I don't think thats the problem. Bad ram would cause major issues besides a slow program.

Honestly, if it just started and i'm 99% sure you don't have a ram problem. Either another program running has a memory leak or your hard drive is having read issues causing AE to stop and go a bunch. Also make sure hardware acceleration is on in AE preference and you have the newest video drivers installed.

 

[sorryboi]

Those ram cleaning tools are pointless. The second a program closes it should dump whatever is in the ram. Only if a program have a memory leak would those tools be useful.

Having an odd amount of ram shouldn't cause many problems besides running slow. You can also download Memtest86 and run it to see if you memory have errors.

Memtest86 is only for CD Drives and USB sticks if im aware.

Yep memtest86 is a boot and go program but that would be the only to truly test the ram. though I don't think thats the problem. Bad ram would cause major issues besides a slow program.

Honestly, if it just started and i'm 99% sure you don't have a ram problem. Either another program running has a memory leak or your hard drive is having read issues causing AE to stop and go a bunch. Also make sure hardware acceleration is on in AE preference and you have the newest video drivers installed.

I do not have any USBs and the dvd reader in my pc does not work. Yesterday when AE was under heavy load and i set it to 11GB Ram usage it was only using about 25% of my ram, definately don't think that's enough. I frequently checked task manager and nothing else was using a good amount of ram besides chrome which was using 400MB but I closed that down... didn't seem to help much.