Recently, my computer has decided it's doing too much work, or something, and now it takes forever to do things that used to take...well, still a long time, but significantly less so.
Encoding a video in Adobe Media Encoder that previously took around two hours can now take as many as eight or nine. I also get error messages in Firefox about a script that's stopped running whenever I try to encode video with Firefox open, which used to happen only rarely. After Effects encodes are taking five minutes instead of one. RAM previews are taking absolutely forever to load.
I'm trying to edit video in Premiere Pro at the moment, and it won't even play properly. The audio works fine, but I'm getting only intermittent freeze-frames of the video and whenever I try to click on anything, it stops responding for half a second or so, but the clicking doesn't actually do anything even after it starts responding again. So the only way to get the video to stop is to kill Premiere through Task Manager.
Shutdown and boot-up times are ridiculously long. Trying to encode video with AME or VirtualDub makes the computer absolutely useless for anything else, where I used to be able to do low-intensity things if needed, albeit slower than usual. Programs seem to take significantly longer to open than previously.
I'm fairly sure it's not an issue with the Adobe software (I'm running CS6, if it matters): it happens elsewhere, it's just that CS is where I do most of my work, so that's where most of the examples come from.
System specs:
Vista Home Premium SP2
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz 2.66GHz
16GB RAM
64-bit OS
Encoding a video in Adobe Media Encoder that previously took around two hours can now take as many as eight or nine. I also get error messages in Firefox about a script that's stopped running whenever I try to encode video with Firefox open, which used to happen only rarely. After Effects encodes are taking five minutes instead of one. RAM previews are taking absolutely forever to load.
I'm trying to edit video in Premiere Pro at the moment, and it won't even play properly. The audio works fine, but I'm getting only intermittent freeze-frames of the video and whenever I try to click on anything, it stops responding for half a second or so, but the clicking doesn't actually do anything even after it starts responding again. So the only way to get the video to stop is to kill Premiere through Task Manager.
Shutdown and boot-up times are ridiculously long. Trying to encode video with AME or VirtualDub makes the computer absolutely useless for anything else, where I used to be able to do low-intensity things if needed, albeit slower than usual. Programs seem to take significantly longer to open than previously.
I'm fairly sure it's not an issue with the Adobe software (I'm running CS6, if it matters): it happens elsewhere, it's just that CS is where I do most of my work, so that's where most of the examples come from.
System specs:
Vista Home Premium SP2
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz 2.66GHz
16GB RAM
64-bit OS