After Effects CC crash when RAM preview

Hello,
I have project im working for 2 weeks. It was all good till yesterday. Today I opened and tried to Ram preview it, but either it crash and close or if I click the space bar to watch in the midle of ram preview it opens a warning window, with nothing inside (see attach) and I can not close it or do anything else.
Im running a Windows 8 in a IntelCore i7 4770 3.4GHz 3.4GHz, RAM installed 16GB - Video - NVIDIA GFORCE GTX 660
I just can not work this way, I need to finish this program and I can not find a good explanation for this crashes.
Thank you.
Edit: insert attachment

Hello Mylenium,
First I apologise for my poor english, see it is not my native language.
Now, I have tried that and it didn´t do me any good.
I have backups, however Im not sure if "save incrementally" means the same thing.
Plus, I have managed to RAM preview going by parts, however I don´t feel like that must be the only way to do it.
Thank you,
Eduardo

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