Element 3D is crashing After Effects?

[Ethan_Tramel]

Hello everybody!

I recently purchased Video Co-Pilot's plugin for Adobe After Effects, Element 3D, but much to my amiss, it does not work. The first time I tried to open the scene setup, it said, "Element 3D has encountered an unrecoverable error."

I closed After Effects, and opened it back in hopes of trying again. But this time, when I apply Element 3D to a solid, it tells me "After Effects has stopped working" and I am forced to close the program.

Nothing has changed yet, every time I try to add Element 3D to a solid it crashes After Effects. I updated my graphics driver, re-installed Element 3D, everything I can think of, but to no avail.

If anyone could offer some speculance as to what's happening, that would be amazing.

My system specs:

Acer Aspire 5349

2 GB RAM

250 GB HDD

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

DirectX 11

Intel HD Graphics

[Andrew Yoole · Accepted solution]

You've told us little about your graphics card (GPU) other than it's brand.  This is almost certainly the problem.  Element 3D requires quite high-specced graphics cards as all the processing is done by the GPU.

More information can be obtained from the Video Copilot support pages.

[karanm49784127]

Hello sir . I have also the same problem . When i start adobe acter effect and click on element . Then they show that "Element failed to initialize OpenGl" and after that when i click on scene setup they show a debud error " Element has encounted an unrecoverable error" .Please reply the answer .

[karanm49784127]

Hello sir . I have also the same problem . When i start adobe acter effect and click on element . Then they show that "Element failed to initialize OpenGl" and after that when i click on scene setup they show a debud error " Element has encounted an unrecoverable error" .Please reply the answer .

[Todd_Kopriva]

> 2 GB RAM

That is far below the minimum system requirements for After Effects.

Also, as Andrew says, the GPU requirements of Element 3D are quite stringent.

[Mylenium]

As the others said, your system has barely enough juice to run AE itself, much less run a plug-in that is entirely dependent on OpenGL GPU features. This will never work if all you have is a measly intel onboard chipset...

Mylenium

[Ethan_Tramel]

Thank you so much for responding!

After Effects actually runs very well on my PC, considering I do have the minimum requirements. I am able to run Optical Flares, as well as Trapcode Particular perfectly.

I'm fairly young, so I apologize, but how can I update my graphics card to meet Element 3D's requirements?

Thank you all for you help.

My Graphics specs. Not sure if this will help, but I thought I'd post anyway.