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Memory filling up too fast?
Hey all, Hope I am posting this in the right section and hope I can get some feedback. I'm not even sure if this is a windows problem, but it is a good place to start. See my system info for my system specs but the main point of this post is regarding my RAM. This system is the first time I've had 4 GBs of ram, and also the first time I'm using a 64-bit OS. My problem relates to the programs of the Adobe CS3 (That's CS3 and not CS4). I've been doing alot of editing in Premiere Pro, which itself isn't the problem. MY project in PPro is fairly complex, but only about 20 minutes long and nothing out of the oridinary. The problem begins when I open up any other app to do some related work, like After Effects, my RAM fills up very quickly and I can't understand why. I look at my Sidebar RAM indicator and it shows I'm using nearly all 4 Gigs of my RAM and the system performance suffers. Why is this? Often After Effects will have basically a small clip open, nothing compared to what Premiere has open but just those 2 apps will be nearly maxing out my RAM, where as PPro alone maybe takes up 2 to 2.3GBs or so. By contrast when I was on XP 32bit with 2 Gigs of RAM, on the same system I might add, I could have those 2 programs open, plus something like Maya, an IE instance, and so on and it wouldn't even phase the system. Do I have something set wrong? -- ZeonStar |
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Memory filling up too fast?
Hi Zeonstar, only thing I would suggest is due to the new Superfetch in vista it could be the new normal. Have you ever actually had a low memory warning? what is your RAM usage at idle? I Know that vista will "use" anything up to 40% of my RAM when I've nothing running except the system. It loads what it thinks you need next into free RAM which if needed It will release back to any application that requests it -- barman58 Regards, *Nigel* the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.,- frank herbert |
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Memory filling up too fast?
By idle you mean with like Vista loaded only right? It usually takes up about 1400/4000. I forget the percentage, sorry. No I don't actually get the Low Memory Error, which is odd. But when the RAM appears maxed out via my monitor sidebar, stuff is visibly slowing down. My windows pagefile is system managed and I have it on a storage drive that is independent of the drive windows is on and independant of the drive my applications are on...if that matters at all. -- ZeonStar |
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Memory filling up too fast?
Hi zeonstar, Thinking further about this Superfetch should not be Maxing out your RAM if it's working correctly. Are you running the CS2 applications in compatibility mode for XP SP2 as I think there have been a few problems with their vista compatibility. as for the swap file the best thing is to locate it as you have done as long as that drive is of a similar speed to your system disk. -- barman58 Regards, *Nigel* the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.,- frank herbert |
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Memory filling up too fast?
I have 3 physical drives (with many partitions but they are all 7200 RPM standard Fare. I'm using CS3, nor 2. I got CS3 right around the time I got Vista. I don't think I ever even tried CS2 with Vista. But No I've not actually tried the compatibility mode. I just right click the exe and choose compatibility mode correct? I don't think I've ever used any of Windows Compatibility modes in my life, in any verion of Windows. Eh! Thanks for that idea though. I can try when I get home. -- ZeonStar |
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Memory filling up too fast?
Sorry about the mix up with the versions as I understand it CS2 should definitely run in compatibility mode, and CS3 sometimes needs it, As you say it's an easy option to trial just the right click as you say, so may be worth a try, and it can be reversed easily if it doesn't help. -- barman58 Regards, *Nigel* the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.,- frank herbert |
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Memory filling up too fast?
What about that Vista SuperFetch thing that I admit I know very little about? Can/could it be disabled? Also I been considering getting more RAM because I have to admit having my system maxed with 8 GB of RAM would be kind of cool (Read: I spend too much money.) But would my system start showing all 8 GB of THAT used if I was to get more Memory? -- ZeonStar |
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Memory filling up too fast?
Hi ZeonStar, If you want to disable Superfetch have a look at Shawn's tutorial for step by step .. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72...refetcher.html as you are running x64 you will be able to use all the 8 Gigabytes you could also check the Adobe site for any vista related patches - especially relating to x64 -- barman58 Regards, *Nigel* the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.,- frank herbert |
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Memory filling up too fast?
What I meant was if I get 8 GBs am I going to have the same problem with it "Filling up" like it seems to be doing with 4 Gbs right now? Because I seriously doubt 2 Adobe apps are maxing out my RAM. That's what I'm trying to solve. I wonder if CS4 is any better... -- ZeonStar |
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Memory filling up too fast?
all I can say about CS4 is that is does have a Native 64 bit design so it should run well, it's a bit new at he moment so not sure if it is more memory efficient. -- barman58 Regards, *Nigel* the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.,- frank herbert |
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