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Experiencing performance related issues in Lightroom 4.x

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March 6, 2012
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Anyone else notice that lightroom 4 is slow? Ligtroom 3 always ran fast on my system but Lightroom 4 seemlingly lags quite a bit.

My system is:

2.10 ghz Intel Core i3 Sandy Bridge

8 GB Ram

640 GB Hard Drive

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

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Correct answer Victoria Bampton LR Queen

It's now impossible to see the wood for the trees in this whopping 43-page long thread. Many of the original 4.0-4.2 performance issues have since been resolved, and it's impossible to figure out who is still having problems, and what they can try.

I've started a nice clean thread to continue this discussion for 4.3 and later. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1117506 Thanks to Bob_Peters for the suggestion. I'm locking this one, otherwise it'll continue to get increasingly unweidly, but please feel free to continue existing discussions on the new thread.

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piotrh01

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RC 2 - still slow response/lag.

Q9400

8GB RAM

64bit Windows 7 Professional

Ati Radeon HD 4800

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SF_Brit

Participant

I have a Dell XPS system with the following specs:

3.4 ghz Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge

16GB Ram

SSD HD for OS (180GB)

Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit

numerous USB2.0 and 3.0 HDD with all my photos

Lightroom 3 was magic. Great program fast and efficient. I got Ligthroom 4 and on the same day got the Canon 5D Mark III. Mark III wasnt supported so I went to LR4.1 RC1. The performance tanked. It is terrible. Sooo painful. Even on old catalogs with low res images. It is almost unusable with stalls ('not responding') of the program. Even just moving pic to pic is painstakingly slow. It seems many others have similar performance issues. I moved to RC2 and things have got better, but not to the point of the program being back to the old speeds I am used too and the stalls still occur now and again. I have upped the Caches to extremely large levels and monitoring my PC resources they never are more than 50-60% used. Any advice appreciated. I may try what terry275 is recommending

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NadavHavakook

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LR4 RC2 is very slow!

Guys please, we know its beta, please do not force us buying new computers by putting code on code, fix the code. My camera didnt change, and LR3.6 was working fine with the same files.

There's is definitely a memory leak too.

Using Free Memory app on Mac and I see how it behaves different on my computer. I am on LR since version one.

Geoff the kiwi

Community Expert

While I do understand your frustration appreciate that we are all frustrated. Meanwhile it could help if you give us some details on your system, etc such as these:

Mac 10.7.3

MBP 2012

i7 8gb ram

750Gb 7200 internal

12Tb Promise Raid external

Catalogs and cache on internal

Image files - some internal, some external

Files mainly Nikon D7000 converted to DNG.

I haven't seen the slow down at all.

nadavee wrote:
LR4 RC2 is very slow!
Guys please, we know its beta, please do not force us buying new computers by putting code on code, fix the code. My camera didnt change, and LR3.6 was working fine with the same files.
There's is definitely a memory leak too.
Using Free Memory app on Mac and I see how it behaves different on my computer. I am on LR since version one.

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NadavHavakook

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I am on:

Mac OS X 10.6.8

MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 6 MB

Memory: 4 GB

Bus Speed: 800 MHz

My photos and catalog are all on external drive, I wish I could work internal, I know its faster but I cant, not enough space on my laptop drive.

My catalog is 4.3GB and has about 250000 images in it.

My previews are set to High and Quality of1680.

I thought it might be the xmp auto right, so I unchecked it from the catalog settings but did not see any difference, I then re-checked the auto write xmp but now every time I quit LR, I get the msg that it did not finish writing XMP changes.

P.S.

that computer, with the same setup worked just fine on LR 3 (I understand its limitations and realize I can get a faster one these days) but on 4.1 RC2 it is very slow, and takes a lot of memory to operate.

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andreas603

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RC2 no diff for me...what P*SSES me off to no end is not being able to process my RAW images with 3.6...My fault for buying a new camera I guess (5D M III) very very irritated...

Geoff the kiwi

Community Expert

You can if you convert them to DNG with the free DNG converter 6.7 at Adobe Labs.

andreas603 wrote:
RC2 no diff for me...what P*SSES me off to no end is not being able to process my RAW images with 3.6...My fault for buying a new camera I guess (5D M III) very very irritated...

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beautiful_writer15A8

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Even though this is better than 4.0 or RC-1 it's still bad.

I have a pretty good machine and 3.6 worked great so I know it's possible to have good performance but alas...not in RC-2 yet.

With Clarity set to 0, the filmstrip not showing, and the process at 2010 I have less "max CPU" issues and less "not responding" issues but the problem is far from solved.

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PhilR99

Participant

My LR4 is extremely slow capturing photos and video. It took approx. 25 minutes to capture 71 RAW + jpg files. This is totally unacceptable.

System:

I7

16 gb RAM

356 gb SSD

1.5 tb drives for Data

LR 3 was much faster.........what can I do to improve performance?

Thx,

PhilR

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lauralobiancosword

Participant

I'm having the same problem. I have the trial version of 4 but am unable to load 4.1. The zip file just reloads 4.0 and won't install 4.1. I'm guessing it is b/c it is still the trial version. Of course, I don't want to buy 4 unless this is fixed. I'd be happy sticking with LR3 if I were able to use the LR4 catalog that I created. So it seems I either lose all the work I did in 4.0 or just buy 4.0, cross my fingers and hope they fixed it with 4.1?

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Anonymous

Hey everyone. Lightroom 4.1 RC2 just was released. They’ve got props on the release page with a special “thank you” to the users of the User-to-User forum (that’s us!) for providing insight into the issues that they have addressed in RC2.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4-1/

Check it out! Downloading now…

Geoff

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Madscape

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Thanks.. I just installed it ..will try it tomorrow ...Man I was hoping for a lens profile correction for my Tokina 11-16 in version 4 : (-

But I did try one thing ...I toggled to CS5 and the tablet brushes and controls seem to work ok ...

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Anonymous

OMG! I just tried to edit a small set of photos in LR4 and moving around is painfully slow indeed compared to LR3.6.

All I did was go into Develop, crop the image, press "2" to set the rating and press "G" to go back to Library. From the moment I pressed "2" followed by "G", it was more than 15 seconds to get to Library. In LR3, that was like 2 seconds.

WTH did Adobe do to slow it down so much for the same exact steps?

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Madscape

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Shame on me for not trying LR4 out , I just purchased the upgrade. Although I can see some nice new features. The lag time when using sliders or the adjustment brush is PAINFULLY slow...it renders this an unusable program to me. I also dont appreciate the fact that When I try to toggle over to CS5, I am prompted to download bridge 7.0 which isn't even available for download yet. This product WAS NOT ready for introduction yet . My computer absolutely Screams with any other photo editing task in LR3 CS5 or many others. If you haven't bought this yet DON'T till you read that things have been resolved. My guess is it won't be for a while ... what a shame ...

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steve@steveanchell.com

Participating Frequently

Whew! I thought it was me. Misery loves company so I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that is two days behind deadline on a client's project because LR4 is taking so long to render images, change from one image to another, apply a brush stroke, and crashing! At first I suspected it might be the new Seagate external hard drive I was using, so I moved the entire folder of images (3300 images) to a hard drive I know works well. Same thing. So then I moved the entire folder of images right onto the Mac under Pictures, to make certain it isn't an issue with external HDs in general (I don't normally keep images on the 1TB internal Mac drive; I am only using 1.6GB of space with all my programs and have 10GB RAM). Same problem. Photoshop, Word, Outlook, Acrobat, et al, are working normally. The images only bog down in LR4. I don't believe the LR4 images are backwards compatible with LR3 or I would dump the new program. Anybody else have any ideas?

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lauralobiancosword

Participant

I downloaded the trial version of LR4 and WILL NOT be purchasing it. It is PAINFULLY slow. I usually can upload a few hundred pictures in a few minutes with LR3.6. It has been over an hour now and my raw files are still not uploading. The develop module is unresponsive as well. Changes take a few seconds before they show up.

BKKDon

Inspiring

Hi, For a comparision I use a HP Pavillion DV-4 (3 years old) for my travelling machine and it has the following set up:

Lightroom version: 4.1 RC [820174]

Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, Version: 6.1 [7601]

Application/System architecture: x64

Physical processor count: 2 x 2.5 GHz (Dual Core Centrino 2)

Built-in memory: 4062.9 MB

Real memory available to Lightroom: 4062.9 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 458.0 MB (11.2%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 484.5 MB

Memory cache size: 276.3 MB

System DPI setting: 96 DPI

Desktop composition enabled: Yes

Displays: 1) 1280x800

Adapter NVIDIA GeoForce 9200M

Dedicated Video Memory 512 MB

Typically it will take up to 10 seconds to start-up Lightroom 4.1RC and the first time I switch to the develop module it may take up to 5 seconds. After that there doesn't seem to be any lag in either processing or using the sliders. The

My typical workflow is: 1) Import CR2 files; 2) scan and mark those for rejection; 3) delete rejected photos; 4) convert all that are left to DNG deleting the originals.

My desktop machine is a Sony Vaio VPCL-218FG with 2 x i7 quad core processors (8 physical processors) with 8GB ram, 1024MB video memory (NVIDIA GeoForce GT540M) and that is a lot faster.

Hope this gives you some idea of the configurations that seem to work.

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