Cores, how many are supported by After FX CS3 on win vista? : Adobe After Effects

Hi folks,
do you know how many cores are supported by after fx CS3?

I am able to use a dual xeon quadcore workstation with 8 cores and 24 GB Ram for my diploma, but I don't know if this hardware is supported by CS3?

It is the Xeon 5355 Quad Core 2,67 Ghz on dual 771 socket mainboard from Tyan. The OS is Win Vista Premium 64bit.

Does anyone of you have further information if this is doable?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Roman

but I don't know if this hardware is supported by CS3?




It is by using the "Render multiple frames simultanously" option (or using Nucleo Pro as an alternative). Please search this forum for more detailed answers on the benefits and downsides and how and why the limitations apply to AE as an 32bit application.

Mylenium

Each instance of AE can only access a maximum of 4 GB of RAM (on Vista64). With the "Render multiple frames simultaneously" option in the preferences, AE CS3 and later can start several hidden copies of itself in the background, which can each address that maxmium amount of RAM, so your machine would ideally use 5 processor cores (5 x 4 = 20 GB and leave 4 GB for the OS.)

In CS4 you can set the number of cores to use, in CS3 you have to do it via a text file, detailed in this post: <http://generalspecialist.com/2007/02/troubleshooting-after-effects-7.asp> (look for "MaxNumberOfProcesses")

PS. On OS X, each instance can address 3.5 GB and on Windows XP and Windows Vista 2 GB (or 3 GB if you are adventurous: <http://generalspecialist.com/2006/05/using-more-than-2gb-of-ram-in-after.asp> )

- Jonas Hummelstrand
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