After Effects not recognising all RAM

I have just installed After Effects on a new PC with 6GB of RAM, however on the splash screen that appears when loading up AE it says x% of 4GB RAM being used.
Do I need to do something to make it see 6GB?
Thanks in advance.

> I have read all the posts and advice and still come out confused - I
have 8GB (on OS X) and just leave the multiprocessor options switched
off until someone comes up with a clear and concise walkthrough for
idiots like me !
from the post that I linked to:
"Let's take an example of a computer with eight processor cores and 8GB of RAM:
For HD, you want at least 2GB for each process; preferably more. And you almost always want to leave at least 2GB for other applications. That leads to some relatively simple math. For an eight-core system with 8GB of RAM, leaving 2GB for other applications gets you down to 6GB. That's enough RAM for three processes at 2GB each."
Is there something about that that you don't understand? Set Minimum Allocation Per CPU to 2GB. Set RAM To Leave For Other Applications to 2GB. You're done. After Effects will use three processes for rendering.

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> Also my after effects will not open and says it cannot be run of this version of OS X. Any suggestions?
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Hello
I use after effects cc 2014 on my macbook pro version 10.9.5 2.6GHz intel core i7. Memory 16G 1600 MHz DDR3. Nvidia GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB.
Recently, almost every time I try and do a Ram preview using the button in the preview panel, my computer pauses and appears to not register then when I move the mouse it beach balls. If I wait and watch it it, it suddenly shows green but doesn't play back. If I hit the button again it does it all again. If I hit space bar to play it doesn't play the audio. It does scrub fine. If I go on to another program while it is previewing it lets me know when it has done but isn't playing and if I hit the button to get it to play it does it again!! It does occasionally work but more often than not it doesn't.
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