After Effects CC not saving ram preview when switching to different tab.

Okay so just recently upgraded to CC and have been experiencing some ram preview problems.
What happens is I will do a ram preview, watch it, then switch to a different window (Chrome, word, etc)
and when I go back to AE and do a ram preview it does it all over again even though i haven't changed anything in the comp.
I dont believe this was a problem in CS5.
Any help on what settings i should check or if its a coding problem would be appreciated.
Some specs:
16gb ddr3 ram
AMD FX-6300
Radeon R7 250
Everything Program/Cache is on SSD and the project file/video files are on Ext HDD

Okay it's kind of fixed. (it isnt deleting it like it used too)
i cleared my cache which was about 30gb, but I still had about 20gb of free space when i cleared it
but Now I am getting some crashes and other stuff (colored bars, i already read thats getting fixed though)
Do you think lowering the CPUs used to 3 will help?
Ill update if it does it again when the cache is getting close to full

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