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    G73 on Premiere and After Effects CS4?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by AsILayDaing, Apr 26, 2011.

  1. AsILayDaing

    AsILayDaing Notebook Consultant

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    i'm currently using this laptop for gaming and multi-media stuff. right now i'm editing videos and i've been getting pretty slow responses considering this laptop has 8gb of ram. i feel that it's not utilizing the whole 8gb. are there any tweaks that i can do to have a better experience in Premiere and After Effects? also other programs like maya please :)
     
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    Well, it might be using your swap file instead of ram
     
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    The swap being too small or non-existent can cause problems too.
     
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    what's a swap file and how do i make it use the ram? :p
     
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    The Pagefile, can be adjusted in Control Panel -> System -> advanced settings -> Advanced -> Performance -> advanced -> virtual memory -> change

    It's suggested to keep a SWAP of between 1-2GB minimum. Some programs require it to work properly/fast. I don't experience any slowdown with a SWAP of 1GB in Photoshop/AFX.
     
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    so that's why. :p i saw one article that i needed to set my swap on 400mb min and max. checked back it dated 2004. lol :| i noticed it got worse. will be restarting soon and will check back to see if this setting is okay. :D
     
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    I use Premiere on the G73 and it performs much better when you give it a priority of "Above Normal" or higher via task manager.

    you could also be running out of hard drive space and make sure your scratch disk is set to a place with a lot of space, or you may need to defrag
     
    sirIsaacNewbton, Apr 27, 2011
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    ALSO, Premiere and After effects CS4 are NOT 64bit so they will only use up to around 3gb of ram.

    Time to update to CS5 if you want to use all your ram.

    ***and not to start a fight here, but with CS5 you can use Murcury with premiere CS5 and an Nvidia card and get a HUGE (500%) performance boost. Plus Nvidia has much better GL drivers for the adobe suite even on the geforce level. Thats why pros/devs never use ATI for anything other then playing games.
     
    apachehavok, Apr 27, 2011
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