Re: Otherworld Memory

[James Roberts] "Should I notice an across the board performance boost in just about any app as soon as these are in?"

in most cases you won't see a huge performances increase... most applications are 32-bit so they will only use 3gb, however you can have more applications open, each grabbing 3gb, and see a lot less performance loss as applications are forced to write ram overflow to disk.

ae cs3 (and higher) with multiprocessing on, however, will grab up to 2gb of ram per core for rendering. so if you have an 8-core mac, cs3+ and enable multiprocessing, you can utilize all that ram and all your cores and should see a performance boost, particularly for any processor intensive effects/compositions, like 3d, particle systems, mesh warp, etc.

now, many of apple's pro apps are 64-bit, and will utilize all that ram and most of the cores (i think motion is still limited to 2 or 4 cores, but many of the others use all of them). so, for example, if you use compressor and do some hd encoding, you should some benefits.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW