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October 22, 2020

P: Slow UI when using Mac and Custom Display Profile

  • October 22, 2020
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Hello,

 

Since upgrading to Lightroom Classic v10.0, all UI-related functionality is painfully slow. All editing functions are working correctly and quickly but scrolling through the catalogue or even scrolling a side panel is taking many long seconds to refresh. Unreasonably long.

 

Disabling GPU Accellaration has no affect on my Lightroom's performance.

 

macOS Mojave 10.14.6

Mac Pro (Late 2013)

3 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5

32 GB 1866 MHz DDR3

AMD FirePro D700 6 GB

 

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Inspiring
November 11, 2020

It’s a solution if color isn’t important but who uses Lightroom not caring about color?... for serious work not having access to color calibration renders Lightroom useless. I Hope this bug is fixed soon 🙏

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
November 11, 2020

@Bailey Mohr did you see and try what Tracy wrote?

Then found this thread. Changed monitor profile to SRGB.....Bingo! Joy of joys all good, for now.

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Participant
November 11, 2020

Same. Everything is painfully slow sometimes it takes over in a minute for me to click through from one photo to the next. I have done everything I know to optimize Lightroom. It seems to get worse the longer I use it.

Participant
November 11, 2020

Everything is painfully slow, sometimes it takes over a minute to 

click on the next photo. I have optimized everything possible, and it gets worse the longer I use it.

Inspiring
November 10, 2020

Lightroom Classic has been running so slowly that I can't use it. This seems to have occurred since my last update. What can I do to fix this problem?

Inspiring
November 10, 2020
I have an extremely frustrating problem. The environment :
  • Desktop Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.40 GHz (older generation)
  • 8 GB Dual-channel DDR3 @ 665 MHz (old, slow tech)
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (20H2 OS Build 1942.572)
  • 124 GB internal SSD (OS, apps, LR Cat)
  • Multiple external HDD's (JPEG, RAW, Video, General, ...)
  • Lightroom Classic 10.0 Release Camera Raw 13.0 (Build 202010011851-xxxxxxxx)
The thing is, Lightroom started running extremely slowly - to the point where it literally gets unworkable after a short while. A reboot restart helps, but soon afterwards the same story. I suspect it is after a recent upgrade of LR, possibly together with one / some of the recent multiple Windows updates.

The interesting thing is that I also run much the same configuration on an i7 laptop, and that performs very well.

On the desktop, I also run a version of PowerDirector video editing software, and if LR is not running, it performs extremely well. So does all the other programs.

I have done all the basic fault finding, and more. Cleaned all cache, optimized the catalog, checked
the various LR performance indicators, etc. But to no avail.

I've checked various forums to see if this is a common / known problem, with not success.

I don't want to spend money (e.g. more / faster RAM) and then find it was not the problem.

The exact same hardware configuration worked previously on Release 9.x with absolutely no degrading performance issues whatsoever.

Anybody on this forum who can throw a lifeline ? I am under severe pressure and stress to complete some urgent work on LR, but under circumstances I am more likely to use violence against the technology...
Inspiring
November 10, 2020

In ten years, I've never had so many issues with a version before!

Background: I just bought a brand new Macbook pro in May of this year, and everything on it is up to date.

Bugs that I have encountered so far with version 10 of LR classic:

 - Not compatible with my laptop's graphic processor (because that makes sense) so Adobe support made me turn off the graphics use in LR. It was causing 'ghosting' - the sharpening functioning from the previous image would be applied to the new image.

Now LR runs slower than molasses. On my new laptop. With no other programs running. And allowing as much memory use as possible. It worked better on my 12 year old imac, seriously.

- Can't move images from one collection to another within LR UNLESS all collections are ordered according to capture time. Because that makes sense.

(I will be adding to this list as new bugs rear their heads, I'm sure).

My question is - how do I get Adobe's attention to make them take these issues seriously? Their help pages are ridiculous and incredibly frustrating.

Inspiring
November 9, 2020

@Rikk

Hello Rikk, I have the same super slowness issue with an MacPro 2019 + Radeon Pro 580X_8GB and the Apple XDR 6k Display. If I use my DELL Monitor 34-Zoll (3440 x 1440) it's incredible fast. 
Then I tried resXtreme to lower the resolution on the XDR-Display just to FullHD, there is no change in performance. 
Only when I switch to the Apple color profile "Internet & Web (sRGB) and the full 6k resolution, the performance "normal-slow" is back (like before the LR10 update).
Please resolve this issue soon. If needed you can contact me.
Thank you in advance.

Regards
Ronald

Known Participant
November 9, 2020

Hi

Mac Pro mid-2010
2 CPU, 12 cores 3.46 GHz
96 Go RAM
Radeon RX580 8 Go

Professional usage as a photographer.

Slowness is unacceptable.


Asking professional photographers to change their Monitor Profile is just a joke. Do you know at Adobe that professional people make calibrations for their screens?

Nevertheless, I just tried to change the screen profile: absolutely non change in the slowness.

I will go back to previous version.

I am officially asking for, at least, a one month refund.

And one month refund is far for the time I have lost with 0 QA software where non regression tests when updating versions seem to be a non existing concept at Adobe's. 

Regards
Thierry

Inspiring
November 9, 2020

Have you tried the "monitor profile" fix? Change from any custom monitor color profile you've created to a "default" one, like Adobe RGB, Apple RGB, Generic RGB profile. This seems to clear the slowness. Adobe is working on a fix. System Prefs/Display/Color and pick one.

You could also try the "once over" to delete more caches and application states, it may not help but it can't hurt (and you'll gain hard drive space). Download the free Onyx (https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html), select the Onyx version for your OS, download, run it, reboot.

In Onyx run almost everything in the Maintenance tab, deselecting things you may not want deleted, like Launch Services. Hit the "Options" button across from "Internet" and check/deselect more stuff like Cookies & Other Site Data, Browser History, Form Values, (which are OFF by default), but make any other choices you want to keep. Don’t know what something is? Google it, or ask me, or don’t run it, then hit Run Tasks. After it's done it will ask for a reboot. You will see you've gained some hard drive space, but try to use it again.