AE7 crashes on new Mac Pro
by Nicolas Colangelo
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Mar 19, 2008 at 11:23:25 am
Last week the new machine, a MacPro 3,2GHz dual Quad core on OS 10.5.2 (Leopard) with 16 GB Ram and a NVIDIA 8800(512Mb) arrived. Since then the AE7 (wich worked wonderfull on the previous machine-a Mac dual Core 2GHz and 4GB Ram) don't work well anymore.
Take the example of a comp duration 30 secs and 10 layers. Previeuw is possible for only a few seconds, then i get the message "Could not create an image buffer (7::39) and the programm crashes. Same story for rendering a composition. It seems like some memory problem occurs every time. I checked all prefs and cannot find what's going wrong, please help. Thanks hereby, Nicolas.
Re: AE7 crashes on new Mac Pro by Ian Corey on Mar 19, 2008 at 3:09:33 pm
Upgrading to CS3 will fix this problem.
You understand the repercussions involved in running AE7 on a Mac, right? It's running under an emulator which eats all of your CPU and memory while it's running. You can't get ANYTHING done on that version.
Re: AE7 crashes on new Mac Pro by Darby Edelen on Mar 19, 2008 at 5:36:10 pm
[Ian Corey]"You understand the repercussions involved in running AE7 on a Mac, right? It's running under an emulator which eats all of your CPU and memory while it's running. You can't get ANYTHING done on that version."
Just to clarify, this is only the case on Intel Macs, which means any Macs younger than about 2 years. If you limit AE7 to use no more than 1GB of RAM then you should experience fewer problems, but your performance will still be limited by the binary emulation inherent in running a PowerPC application on an Intel architecture.
This is only a band-aid, you should really update to CS3, you won't be sorry!
There's an article on the COW that might help you:
