Low Memory

OhMyGosh wrote on 8/27/2012, 11:14 AM

I have 35 minutes of HD footage. Went to render as 720x480 mpg2 for a DVD. Got a not enough memory message right off the bat. Found that to be true, as my temp folder was on the C drive which is solid state and never big enough (don't ever buy one like that) so I made a new folder on the D drive which has over 310 Gigs available. Rendered for just over an hour, with minutes to go I got the low memory message again and the 'new' red screen of death in the preview window (anyone else get that red screen?). I have 6 Gigs of RAM and a second generation i7. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Cin
PS. I had no other programs running.

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/27/2012, 11:29 AM

How much free, defragmented space is on your C drive?

It could be that, even with your directing scratch disc space to your D drive, the program is choking trying to downsample that HD video to standard def.

OhMyGosh wrote on 8/27/2012, 11:44 AM

Thank you for your reply Steve. I have 2.61 Gigs on the C drive. That's why it wouldn't even let me begin before, so I changed the temp folder to the D drive, but it gave up the ghost right at the end......... Cin

Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/27/2012, 1:29 PM

Even if you have your scratch discs or paging files set to another drive, your programs need room to open up on your C drive.

My guess is that if you can clear off at least 20 gigs of space on your C drive, you'll see improved performance all around.

There are few things that can muck up a computer's performance like a nearly full hard drive.

OhMyGosh wrote on 8/28/2012, 9:00 AM

Thanks again for the reply Steve. I've tried to clear the C drive before and jacked up my computer. Don't even want to tell you of all the error messages I get when I boot up.............. broken links, missing programs, faceless icons, etc. I will create a restore point (which I didn't do before) and hack around some more to see what I can do, but having those two drives with the primary C sooo much smaller than the D has been nothing but one huge pain in the rear! Some day if I ever have any spare time, I will have to probably try and reinstall Windows, but with all my progams, it usually takes about a week to get it all back up to date. Thanks again, and I'll let you know if it works. Cin