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Marsdy 05-24-2017 02:53 PM
Re: Physical RAM is running Low error
 
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Originally Posted by notedmusic (Post 2432105)
Thanks man,

I'm glad to know this is a problem in PT 12 as well. We need a fix for both versions, I shouldn't have to pay another $1000 for an HD upgrade for something that never worked when I bought it!
I've always had either "out of CPU" or "out of memory" errors and I've tried several trips to the apple store and every "usual" fix I can think of.

Interestingly enough, when I use non-HD interfaces, it seems to work a little bit better... however, there are still significant problems with larger sessions well below the maximum ram.

Do you have an active support? Can you reach out to AVID tech and see what is going on?
I was considering getting the non-hd upgrade to PT 12 *if* it would fix this problem, but apparently this is not a PT 11 specific problem. And if it was I'd be seriously upset that the thousands of dollars I've already paid haven't produced a working-as-advertised product. I initially thought it was a problem with the PLAY engine being incompatible, but now after many trial-and-error sessions and patchs I think the issue is with PRO TOOLS.

Any other ideas?
Anyone else with this problem should not pay for the upgrade, it will not fix your issue...
My initial reaction to your OP was that the problem was probably Play or an incompatibility between Play and Kontakt. Have you tried uninstalling Play, (the engine not the samples,) and running similarly sized session with just Kontakt. Personally I've long since given up on Play as a bad loss. It's always been far more trouble than it's worth IMO.

reichman 05-24-2017 03:32 PM
Re: Physical RAM is running Low error
 
Just to be clear, let's separate the problems. I get the memory message when I boot Pro Tools, but after I click through it, PT 12.7.1 is totally rocking. No serious problems at all, PT uses all the memory I give it. Avid just needs to get rid of the warning message.

notedmusic 05-24-2017 08:28 PM
Re: Physical RAM is running Low error
 
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Originally Posted by Marsdy (Post 2432123)
My initial reaction to your OP was that the problem was probably Play or an incompatibility between Play and Kontakt. Have you tried uninstalling Play, (the engine not the samples,) and running similarly sized session with just Kontakt. Personally I've long since given up on Play as a bad loss. It's always been far more trouble than it's worth IMO.
Not unless AVID gives me a refund or a free upgrade to PT 12 if it gets fixed.

They advertised it as compatible with each other, if it is not then they owe me for false advertisement/non-working product.
And yes I have everything documented and would gladly start a lawsuit because I've spent thousands of dollars and never had a stable session with these products together.

Running play alone has this memory issue and cpu crashing.

I'm always updating them and trying different things, but they've never worked well together. However, I paid for multiple support codes with AVID where they assured me that these are compatible and refused to do anything to help me situation.

First they claimed it was my hardware ( so I bought expensive hardware) - didn't fix the issue.
I got all SSDs and changed everything up. Every time they close my case before they fix anything and give a long list of usual suspects to do, all with no effect.

notedmusic 05-24-2017 08:31 PM
Re: Physical RAM is running Low error
 
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Originally Posted by reichman (Post 2432127)
Just to be clear, let's separate the problems. I get the memory message when I boot Pro Tools, but after I click through it, PT 12.7.1 is totally rocking. No serious problems at all, PT uses all the memory I give it. Avid just needs to get rid of the warning message.
The message keeps appearing as I work.
Also, this is pointing to a major issue that PT DAW is refusing to access all for the RAM available.
So even if the message disappears the root cause of hte problem is still there.
This is a major programming problem, unless someone can tell me what I've overlooked?


BTY, have changed and fiddled with PLAY's settings and I still have the problem no matter which buffers I use.

Marsdy 05-25-2017 12:35 AM
Re: Physical RAM is running Low error
 
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Originally Posted by notedmusic (Post 2432161)
Not unless AVID gives me a refund or a free upgrade to PT 12 if it gets fixed.

They advertised it as compatible with each other, if it is not then they owe me for false advertisement/non-working product.
And yes I have everything documented and would gladly start a lawsuit because I've spent thousands of dollars and never had a stable session with these products together.

Running play alone has this memory issue and cpu crashing.

I'm always updating them and trying different things, but they've never worked well together. However, I paid for multiple support codes with AVID where they assured me that these are compatible and refused to do anything to help me situation.

First they claimed it was my hardware ( so I bought expensive hardware) - didn't fix the issue.
I got all SSDs and changed everything up. Every time they close my case before they fix anything and give a long list of usual suspects to do, all with no effect.
Does running Kontakt alone in Pro Tools cause the memory error? It never did here and I absolutely hammered it in Pro Tools. It worked so well I ended up with over 40 instances of Kontakt in Pro Tools in my template instead of VE Pro. The last update to PT11 and OSX10.10.5 were a golden combination IMO. Super-stable. However, Play has always caused me problems of one kind or another when hosted in Pro Tools. If I did need to use a Play library I hosted it in VE Pro were it works much better in my experience.

panamajack 05-25-2017 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by notedmusic (Post 2432098)
Already created a new admin user (part of optimized list)

What do you mean by "get rid" of it? Disable it in startup? Is this a known conflict?
I meant run your computer without it installed. Do a search, Adobe forums say it is a CPU hog.

Here are screen shots of my Mac Pro tower with PT 11.3.2 running with no session..., followed with PT11.3.2 and the PT11 demo loaded. Says I have 27 GB of mem available.

Your screen shot shows protools is using 8GB, mine shows about 1GB. Can you describe how many tracks you have loaded?

rws 03-15-2018 01:38 PM
Re: Physical RAM is running Low error
 
Hello. I have exactly the same problem. My machine is not as strong as yours but i have 9gb of free memory an Pro Tools momory indicator goes to 100 and gives me a "not enough memory space" message. I also run the Play Plugin (a piano...). The same things has no problems on Logic and Ableton Live (i tried there 10 times the plugin and no problems at all.). But Pro Tools seems to be unable to handle it.

Is there more information about this issue at this point of time???

I am new to Pro Tools and did not expect this kind of Problems.

Greetings Roman

NickFLZ 06-25-2019 01:36 PM
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I am having this issue as well. I have 64GB of RAM in a six core MacPro and get memory errors - it's telling me my memory is at 100% yet when I look at my system meters it's telling me I have over 32GB free. This never happened to me on 2018.12 only when I moved up to 2019.5 (HD, ultimate). What is the point of having a lot of RAM if ProTools doesn't know how to use it properly?

I gave ProTools 25GB to use before it resorts to Disk Cache but it would appear that PT immediately hoards the 25GB then complains it's out of memory. I literally have ONE inst track with ONE instance of Serum on it, ONE aux with ONE ModDelay and ONE master with an EQ7 on it. NO WAY that should require the 25GB of RAM that ProTools is hoarding.

I submitted a help request with Avid - who wants to place a bet if they'll ask me to delete preferences and databases with no result, as usual. Gives me flashbacks of calling the cable company when the internet is down, "have you tried rebooting?"

reichman 06-25-2019 02:48 PM
Re: Physical RAM is running Low error
 
I know this is not a lot of help, but I have 64GB in a 6,1 Mac Pro with 2019.5. No problems. I'm allowing a 32GB cache. My guess is that a 3rd-party plug-in is having a memory leak. Good luck!

sondelux 01-14-2022 02:53 AM
Re: Physical RAM is running Low error
 
Hi everyone!

I have same problem here.

I upgraded from PT12.7.1 to Ultimate and started to have this issue.
I´ve tried every way you guys mentioned but problem persist.

First I Installed PT Ultimate 2020.12 on my OSX10.13.6 opened a mix session including video (dnx-hd).
System usage shows 100% RAM.

Same session running PT12.7.1 on OSX10.12.6
64% RAM usage.:confused:

Later i´ve install PT Ultimate 2019.6 and RAM usage went down to 95% not showing warning but still very tight.

I gess it is a cuestion of finding right convination of PT version and OS.

I´ll try with an earlier version of PT (2018.7) today to see if i can reach the 64% i had with PT12.7.1.

Anyway, any clue is very wellcome.


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