After Effects RAM Problem

[macuser154]

While rendering in After Effects on my MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM, After Effects reports it as only having 3GB of RAM. How can I tell it to use 4GB?

By the way I am using After Effects CS4 on 10.5.6.

 

[kornyboy]

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It sounds like After Effects doesn't like one of the RAM Modules. Check andale sure OS X still thinks you have 4 GB. If your OS thinks there is 4, I don't know enough about After Effects to tell you how to fix it from that end.

 

[macuser154]

Yeah OSX knows I have 4GB. And After Effects must be using both chips because they are 2GB each and After Effects is using 3GB.

 

[filman408]

AE is only 32-bit, so it can access only 3GB.
Also, you dont want a program to access ALL the memory in the machine, there would be none left for the overhead operations/OS.

This is literally a non-issue.