After Effects CS5.5 - Performance very serious issues w/RAM Preview

My system: Windows 7 Professional, two-processor Intel Xeon X 5650, 12 GB of RAM and a NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800.

Problem: RAM Preview in CS5.5 give me less than 2 fps (Yes - two images per second). It's even with the simplest compositions. I created a project of 1080 p 23.976 with two solid layers simple and retouching position and scale values to one of them without other effects to be switched on. RAM Preview gives me 1.8 fps.

I still have AE CS5 installed and it gives me strong and predictable results with RAM Preview. When I create a similar test inside the CS5 project, it creates the RAM Preview almost instantly and displays good real-time (23.976 fps).

My settings for CS5 and CS5.5 are similar (and I tried many variations in my attempt to solve this problem).

PREVIEWS

Fast previews: Adaptive resolution limit 1/4

Compatible OpenGL and two sub-options for active OpenGL.

MEMORY and MULTIPROCESSING

Reserved for other applications of RAM: 4 GB

I tried different settings for multiprocessing, which translates the same less-than-2 fps previews RAM. Currently I have MP'ing activated with allocation of 1.5 GB per background CPU and real processor used is 4. Yet once, no matter what I set it to, I have the same problem of performance.

On my screen magnification ratio setting, I use 25% and my Resolution/Down sample is on the quarter. In my preview, I tried setting my default resolution to "Auto" to "Quarter" without any difference.

In short: on the same machine, RAM of AE CS5.5 preview offers terrible performance. Preview RAM CS5 offers excellent performance.

Well, I got my answer and all is well in the world.

After uninstalling all AJA (and even turn off my Kona card), I lived even horrible RAM previews. Then I Dove which was actually installed on my PC and here I found entries that refer to something as "Matrox Utils". I had not installed anything to do with Matrox. I'm not a big fan of the MXO2, but we have a few floating around the office and after asking around, I found my enemy - one of my co-workers used my machine when I was last week and it has installed and used the MXO2.

So now I guess I have to install my AJA stuff and everything is good. Thanks a lot Szalam and Todd (and everyone else) for pointing me in the right direction!

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