Whenever I scrub through After Effects CC it freezes.

My specs and After Effect Memory Settings are below. The project I currently am working on has about 10 Comps and 50 pre comps. There are a lot of moving parts and to be honest I have not worked on any animations on this machine. Its older as you can see below. My guess is that it is a hardware issue. Not sure if older Mac Pros can run two graphics cards but I know I should have one dedicated GPU to AE. I am coming to the forums to see if there is a workaround until I have the money to buy better hardware or to see if that is even the issue? Help?
Here are my specs:
Here are my After Effect Memory Settings:

Thank you for your replies. A little more about the project:
My maximum resolution is 720p. I have expressions riddled throughout the project. Really it is just duplicated it a bunch of comps. Not sure this affects anything. I also have things animated objects moving up and down, nothing to fancy. I have minimal camera movements in various comps but thats about it.
Dave, I changed those settings and well it is unfortunate that the OS could further complicate this program.
As I have been writing this I have checked whether the settings had fixed the issue and it looks like it has! I guess the old mac doesn't like it when AE hogs up all of the CPUs. I am not entirely sure why they even give you the option. Anyway, thank you both for your replies.

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