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April 23, 2015

P: Quick Develop VERY slow on my system (6 sec vs 1 sec in LR 5.7)

  • April 23, 2015
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Lightroom CC
Quick Develop
When I make any changes to a file (D800 NEF) in Quick Develop in Loupe view, I get a message "Loading" for about 4-6 seconds (forever) before the change is rendered. In LR 5.7, the same thing takes less than a second.
Fresh install of LR CC.
System Preferences reset to default, just to be sure.
"Use Graphics Processor" enabled (no difference when it is disabled)
MacBookPro 2014 fully loaded (i7,16GB,1TBssd) OSX 10.9.5
No other software running.
This makes "Quick Develop" largely unusable!
Please fix, ASAP.
Thanks.

The new GPU assisted speed in Develop module seems to be working fine, is appreciated, and is getting closer to how it should be.

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90 replies

Known Participant
May 27, 2015
Yeah, it's kind of a joke to find that the two major new features (face recognition and GPU acceleration) both have to be disabled to make LRCC usable at all.

It would be funny if it wasn't such a drag.
Inspiring
May 27, 2015
Disabling GPU helped with the keywords coming up. That's much faster now, but God forbid I hit the "O" key (facial recognition). That brings everything to a grinding halt. I upgraded to 6.0 primarily because of the facial recognition (I tag EVERY photo with who's in it). I have > 227,000 photos in my library, so, for me, this was a desirable feature. Here's hoping it gets MUCH better in the next point release.
Participating Frequently
May 27, 2015
Just to chime in here, I'm finding CC very sluggish

6 core MacPro, 24G ram, and SSD's throughout

Much slower than 5.7.1, I frequently get the spinning colourful wheel of death (which is does recover from but didn't get it with LR5)

Haven't seen much point in upgrading to CC so far, I hope Adobe issues some serious updates shortly
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Known Participant
May 27, 2015
Well, I hope adobe is working on a fix for this. Haven't heard much from employees on this thread.

The slowness of generating previews is absolutely horrible. In Print module, it's 5-10 seconds to resolve the image. I can't even use slideshow at all, as the image doesn't resolve before it moves on to the next image.

I have turned GPU off, and am using a lower resolution preview setting. (I'm on a 27" imac).

I appreciate the difficulty of putting out a new sw release. But LR5 was working fine. The number of problems introduced with LRCC is incredibly frustrating.
Inspiring
May 24, 2015
Victoria, yes, I understand. Thanks for all your work.
It ain't easy putting out a new release of software so complicated and sophisticated. Thanks for your efforts with this software to make our jobs "easier" (different) ;).
But for now, I'll have to step back while y'all develop, and I try to get my work done.
"You can recognize the pioneers -- they're the ones with the arrows in their backs!" ;)
Best regards.
Dave
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 23, 2015
Great to hear you were sensible David! Of course, they'll be busy trying to reproduce these problems, but lot of these issues will be specific to users systems and catalogs. There won't be a single wholesale fix, because that would have been found before release. There's lots of different elements involved here, so it's all about detective work at this stage. That's why specifics from users are so important at the moment.

For those who upgraded their working catalogs, optimizing the catalog, pausing sync, pausing face recognition, checking preview size in catalog settings, checking hard drive space especially on the boot driver, updating the graphics card driver and trying with and without the GPU preference are well worth a try.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Inspiring
May 23, 2015
Thanks, Victoria. Yes, for those who did not install v6 as a parallel trial "beta", that would be important.
Nevertheless, it seems to me that Adobe would test an unoptimized catalog vs a clean test catalog, and either respond that Adobe is working on fixing it, or that Richard should optimize his catalog because Adobe found in their testing that re-optimizing the catalog makes a big difference.
We have lots of feedback from customers, and almost none from Adobe. Not very equitable or forthright on Adobe's part.
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 23, 2015
There are some performance issues they're working on, but at this stage we have no way of knowing whether you're seeing the same issue or something different. Of course you're welcome to wait and see whether the fixes in the next dot release solve the problems you're having, but since there's not an easy downgrade option, it may be worth your time to try a couple of troubleshooting steps. Up to you.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Inspiring
May 23, 2015
Adobe now well knows of this slowness issue in LR 6. It is therefore up to Adobe (not the customers) to do the appropriate troubleshooting and development.
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 23, 2015
Have you optimized the catalog lately? Do you see the same issues with a clean test catalog?
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen