After Effects CS5.5

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I just got After Effects CS5.5 as a trial version and it seems to be eating up my laptop...

I have a Core i7 2630qm
Geforce 555M (2GB)
4GB RAM
500GB HD

When previewing videos I only get around 18fps. Yesterday, when editing and experimenting with text effects my system completely froze (couldn't even move the mouse) and had to hold the power button to shut down.
Today I was monitoring my RAM usage and 80%+ was being used when only using After Effects, which I think is normal. Just now my GPU crashed when using After Effects, restarted, After Effects became unresponsive and my RAM usage was 98% :nervous:?

I exceed the system requirements for After Effects so what could be the problem?
 
Most of the time mobile video cards aren't technically supported by applications and games, and they certainly aren't optimized for that kind of work. Either way thats some pretty crazy RAM usage.
 
I would open task manager and check how many processes and RAM you use normally without after effects. I would look for processes you don't recognize and check each one on google to see what they do. I'm thinking you got a program that is eating all of your RAM.

By the way, the GPU would be able to run this program fine. This program requires at least 2GB of RAM so it could mean that you need to upgrade the RAM on the laptop if there are no bad viruses or bad program eating the RAM. I would also check for what programs that you have set to start every time. They would just end up taking extra RAM if you don't use them.
 
My RAM is at ~40% usage when computer is at idle.
Steam might be an issue? In task manager it shows that steam uses 80k memory. 5 processes are in 40k-10k memory usage and others are less than 10k.

Just found out that I can install the latest GPU driver... I'll see if it works after that.
 
I usually use 33% of RAM when I'm browsing the internet. My computer would be more like 20-30% idle when booted up. You can set steam to not load when you boot the computer up since that takes a good portion of the RAM use. It's also best to keep the amount of processes down to under 50.
 

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