HELP! - Playback gives Memory Usage Error

[MissouriTiger]

Hello friends,

Can someone please help me solve this issue? I've been using Maya for one week. I'm doing an Autodesk tutorial (see link below). Just a simple spaceship moving across the screen. When I try to play back the animation I get a memory full warning.

I am using a Lenovo Ideapad 330 laptop with 8 GB RAM, Intel UHD Graphics 620, Intel i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60 GHz.

I tried changing cached playback RAM to 90%. Still got the error. I had to reduce FPS to 16, and the best playback I can do right now is a 4 second clip at 16 FPS (48 Frames with only 3 keyframes).

This doesn't make sense. I notice the hardware requirements on the Animation Mentor school website says: 4GB RAM (8GB recommended) and 64-bit Intel or AMD multi-core processor. And they are doing very complicated 3D character animations. Have you seen their demo reels? And I can't even make a simple ship float across the screen?

I have 8GB RAM. So, why isn't it working?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help,

Greg

[MissouriTiger]

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I am running Windows 10, and that the 4 second animation I ran at 16 FPS used up 4GB RAM according to Task Manager. If I try to increase any variable, such as the length of the clip, or the frame-rate, I get the memory full error.