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laurencec
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June 9, 2010
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Experiencing performance related issues in Lightroom 3.x

  • June 9, 2010
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Hi

I just upgraded from lightroom 2.7 to lightroom 3. I then proceeded to import my old catalog. this all went fine but lightroom is so slow, the thumbnail previews take forever to load if I manage to have the patience to wait  for them.

is there a quick solution?? How can it be sped up?

thanks

Laurence

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    Correct answer Tom Hogarty

    Keith - that is part of the problem everyone is trying to figure out - why does LR3 work well for some and lousy for others. as MANY of us have posted - we have the SAME EXACT HARDWARE setup from 2.7 to 3.3 with VASTLY different results. If the only thing changing is the software then Lightroom IS the problem to be diagnosed...

    If it is so offending then unsubscribe from the forum.

    David - you clearly don't get the issue confronting those of us posting here.

    LR 2.7 did everything we needed it to. The Beta was wonderful, and the ads for 3.0 certainly made it appear it would continue to be a set in the right direction. Your solution is for us to now go but other software? Hardly a reasonable one when 2.7 was great and we had every expectation that the new version would be an improvement.

    If both of you are happy with the way it's running, then that is great but you are not at all helping discover why others are having legitimate issues.

    If it's like groundhog day then why are you bothering to come back?


    FYI, I need to lock this thread and start a new thread because I fear that customers will attempt to share valuable feedback in this discussion and it has become extremely difficult for the Lightroom team to follow the lengthy and increasingly chatty conversation.  Please use the following forum topic to discuss the specifics of your feedback on Lightroom 3.3.

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/760245?tstart=0

    Regards,

    Tom Hogarty

    Lightroom Product Manager

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    kobajaszi777
    Participant
    June 9, 2010

    speed test:

    winxp 3,25gb    L2.7  raw --> jpg 85%   100 photos =time 5,30 min

    win7 x64 8gb    L3.0  raw --> jpg 85%   100 photos =       6,16 min

    hardware is the same phenom x4 9750 (100 the same photos)


    why slower... !!??

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    Lee_Jay-0I6no4
    Participating Frequently
    June 9, 2010

    kobajaszi777 wrote:

    speed test:

    winxp 3,25gb    L2.7  raw --> jpg 85%   100 photos =time 5,30 min

    win7 x64 8gb    L3.0  raw --> jpg 85%   100 photos =       6,16 min

    hardware is the same phenom x4 9750 (100 the same photos)


    why slower... !!??

    That's rendering.  Completely separate issue.  The new, improved rendering algorithms also require more processing cycles to complete.  It's the price you pay for improved image quality.

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    Lee_Jay-0I6no4
    Participating Frequently
    June 9, 2010

    More information.  Slow loading thumbs when?  On what OS?  On what machine?  How many images in your catalog?  How many in your source?

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    laurencecAuthor
    Participant
    June 9, 2010

    It is slow loading thumbnails in the grid view of the library.

    I am running windows 7 home premium on an ASUS N61Vn with intel core 2 duo 2.53GHz, 4GB of ram and an nvidia geforce gt 220m 1GB graphics card.

    there are 16661 images in my catalog.mainly JPEGs.

    I open the program and see grey boxes ( some other colours where they have had a label in Lr 2.7) where the images should be in the grid view, I click one and a bunch appear, but when I go to click on some more blanks, the program does nothing but show me the images number in the catalog. This does change for a long time.

    I attached an image so you can see what it looks like. (use a 16in monitor and a 14in)

    Hope this helps.

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    Lee_Jay-0I6no4
    Participating Frequently
    June 9, 2010

    Okay, try this.  Open the application and just wait for all the thumbs to load and all hard drive activity to stop.  This could take a while in some cases (minutes).  Once that happens, exit the application and re-load it.  My guess is that it will be spectacularly faster on the second attempt.

    If so, close all your folders using alt-click which will close the folder and all of its subfolders.  Select a source that doesn't have any images and exit.  Reboot and relaunch.  Once the app is open, try selecting a source with some images and let me know what happens.

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