So, we have FCP 7 running on a 12-core, 2.93 GHz machine with 24GB of RAM.
I've read a lot of posts on this forum about other 12-cores not getting along with FCP, but I figured it would worth posting our issue.
Basically, FCP launches quickly and works fine when you just start it up. But over the course of about 20 minutes, it gradually gets more and more sluggish until every keystroke takes 3-5 seconds to register. So, we re-start, everything is fine, then we get another 10-20 minutes of good working.
From some of the other 12-core threads on here we thought it might be memory, so we upgraded to 24GB (so cheap from crucial!), but we are still left with the issue.
When it was new it had a ton of problems and went back to the store twice to get evaluated but none of the diagnostics can find anything wrong; they also completely switched out all the RAM to see if maybe we had bad RAM. However, that was a year ago, maybe our RAM have gone bad since then?
This machine runs everything else screaming fast; we use Da Vinci on it daily and love it's performance. It's just an FCP thing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Is there a way (aside from the native OS X diagnostic tools) to test for bad ram? Any other great theories on why this is happening?
Charles Haine
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