P4600 and after effects ... poor performance ?

Hi,
I have bought a HP Z1 G2 Workstation which contains a INTEL HD Graphics P4600 card.
(64 bit - Windows 7 - 16 GB RAM).
When I work in after effects, the performance is really slow, especially when creating a simple animation. Changing a keyframe and have the impact updated on the display takes seconds. Which makes the system basically impossible to do video editing work in after effects (which is why I have bought the system). When I do this on my laptop with a K4100, the animations is capable of following my keyframe updates promptly.
P4600 Driver version updated to v10.18.14.4080 (date: 05/01/2015)
At the startup it mentions something about GPU but I don't think that is relevant for Intel graphic cards, isn't it ?
The version of After Effects is CC2014 (latest version - fresh install since last week).
And while reading ADOBE information, my attention is drawn back to this sentence:
Enable hardware acceleration of previews, which uses the GPU to assist in drawing previews to the screen.
This is probably the problem. Doesn't Intel have something like GPU to enable acceleration of preview ? Or can this be done differently on Intel Graphic cards ?
Thanks for any advice that can make my system usable for video editing work.
Kris

Ray Traced acceleration can only be done with approved Nvidia cards... that is, if you even want to. The newest AE versions have abandoned ray tracing for the more efficient C4D Lite... which is easier and faster.

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Any tips?

graphik wizard wrote:
So heres my problem. A week ago my gtx 295 died. So I got a new gtx 780 and new ram. After installing my new card and installing the latest drivers premier and after effects cs6 crash on the splash screen. Whats wierd is these are the only programs that crash. After effects cs4 works fine along with all my maya stuff. I reinstalled premier and it still crashes for some reason.
I'm running vista ultimate 64bit with the cs6 production suite. I do have some plugins on after effects including the trapcode suite amd optical flares.
Any tips?
graphik wizard,
The only thing I can think of is that Windows Vista is not one of the supported operating systems for Premiere Pro CS6. Only Windows 7 is listed. Is it possible to upgrade your OS?
Thanks,
Kevin

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