Motion Crash on RAM Preview

Using Motion 3.0.2 & 10.6.7 16GB DDR3
Today whilst working on a project I'm getting spinning beachball when trying to do a ram preview of the project. There is nothing taxing at all just a TGA and a Livetype text layer.

Thanks for the reply. I've been getting fewer problems by simply pacing myself before I RAM preview, but they have not entirely gone away. Here are my settings as of now.
Footage layers are hand drawn scans animated in 3-D space, but all on the same z plane (virtual animation stand - Reference Still Below). Very few effects. A lot of blending modes.
2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
12 GB RAM
OS X V 10.6.3
AE Memory Settings:
     Installed RAM: 12 GB
     RAM for other Apps: 3 GB
     Render Multiple Frames Simult: ON
     Installed CPUs: 8
     CPUs reserved for other Apps: 0
     RAM per Background CPU 2 GB
     Actual CPUs used: 3
Media & Disk Cache Settings:
     Enable Disk Cache ON
     Max Disk Cache Size: 2000 MB
     Write XMP IDs ON
     Create Layer Markers ON

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