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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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snapdance

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After installing LR 4.1 RC, found that everything that was terribly slow is a little less slow. In Debelop, adjustments to eith Noise sliders cause LR to hang up for 3-5 seconds. The great respionsioveness of all the sliders I'm accustomed to in LR 3.x is gone. On importing RAW, thumbnail previews appear very slowly; exports take longer. Copyu and paste settings takes longer. We've gone backwards. Help! This is my livelihood. Thanks.

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terry275

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Not sure if this is the place to raise this one but when sychronising in the develop module only the exposure setting for say 100 images only the first 6-12 are changed. When synchronising CHECK ALL is used then the exposure is changed on all the images?

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piotrh01

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Lr 4.1 RC

Still something is not right - changing module from library to develop for the first time after starting program loading a picture takes 25 seconds. Same machine with Lr 3.6 only 2-3 seconds. Wierd...

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Anonymous

Upgraded to LR 4.1RC. Speed seems to be improved. Slider responsiveness is very acceptable now. Switching between modules is a bit slow on the first access but after that very acceptable. Did have to reboot because I ran in the problem of CS5 blowing up on start after installing LR4.1 RC1. System in Xeon 3GHz, 8GB ram Win7 Pro. I'll update other original issues in the appropriate threads.

Overall a pretty good update for a RC1.

Tony...

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mizzified

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updated to 4.1

(strictly Develop Moduly speaking)

i see quite obvious improvements in slider slug.... on my single monitor i7 macbookpro, very useable on a daily basis. Great software. Really great. Absolutely love the changes.

However... On my win 7 64 bit quad home machine (my workhorse, my studio, my lifeblood), 12 gigs ram, esata and usb3 external drives, 1 gig video, with dual monitor running in loupe mode, still very painstakingly and frustratingly slow.... redraws and sliders that don't respond for seconds.... but dare I say, more useable than the version I paid 150 bucks for and didn't use. I see a bunch of people saying 4.1 fixed it for them. I'm feeling kinda bummed out. I don't mind a couple millisecond delays... but i'm huffin and puffin at anything over a second, sometimes much more, depending on NR and adjustment brush use. Obviously, I guess, the more I work on an image to dial it in.... the more and more it starts to lag. I suspect it's just to much computing with dual monitor on.

PS. photoshop cs6 beta RAW 7 is like lightning on both machines. I mean LIGHTNING fast. Now this software is responsive. Not sure if lightroom 4 will ever achieve this speed, but this responsiveness is what I'm after in my workflow.

Dream, think, act, do, done. Move on to next photo.

Hoping for a consistent dual monitor responsiveness in 4.1 official release, but thinking I might have to wait till 4.2 or even 4.3.

Thanks to everyone on this site. Great to read everyone's thoughts about this issue. Thanks for the quick 4.1 adobe.

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joshnl77

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Hi Mizzified,

My understanding is that you still experience the slow sliders problem on your Windows machine while using two monitors - is that right? Have you tried actually turning off the second monitor - not just in LR, but in the graphics card settings? Just wondering, since I'm also still experiencing the slow sliders with my two-monitor setup; but in my case, I don't use LR on both monitors, even though I keep both monitors activated. I haven't tried completely deactivating the other monitor yet to see if it improves the situation, but wondering if you have.

Thanks!

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mizzified

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regarding my Windows 7 64bit machine.

turning off the 2nd monitor while lightroom is open (by unselecting it in lower left corner of lightroom develop module) improves my sluggish sliders and redraws.

I never turn my 2nd monitor off in my video card.

Lightroom 4.1 works good enough for me on single monitor... even on my windows machine. Could be quicker at times, but it's workable.

Quick update on my system: I'm useing .cr2 files from a Mark II, very big catalog, NO JPEGS. All raw files.

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sparksdjs

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With 4.1, I'm seeing the slider lag still occur when I simultaneously have the filmstrip visible and clarity set to something other than 0. If I either hide the filmstrip or set clarity to 0 then the lag goes away. I can readily replicate it (Win 7). Otherwise, it is much improved. (Adobe has acknowledeged this problem and said it will be addressed in the official 4.1 drop).

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shamus1585

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Just for what its worth.... My issue with dual monitors and develop module sliders was fixed with LR4.1RC....

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Scooby007

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still a lag when switching over to the develop module for the first time. after the first switch it runs perfect.

That's been that way since v.1 in 2007. No big deal, only have to wait one time

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TR3znor

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Much better now.

With D700 and D90 RAWs almost perfect and some lags while adjusting D70 ones.

CPU usage seems to be lower - 75-80% max. so it's much better than 99-100% :-).

Ok, time for testing!

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Ryan Smith Photography

Inspiring

Thanks for the RC link, I'm going to try that now. Hopefully it will help. By the way I have a Core i5 3gz, 8gb ram, 128gb ssd, 4tb raid 0 made from 4 1tb drives, Windows 7x64. I don't really know what I could upgrade to help, I'm going to up the ram to 12gb but I don't think that will really help.

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Scooby007

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By the way I have a Core i5 3gz, 8gb ram, 128gb ssd, 4tb raid 0 made from 4 1tb drives, Windows 7x64. I don't really know what I could upgrade to help
I'm going to up the ram to 12gb but I don't think that will really help.

a fast i7 (2600k, 8320) would make a much bigger difference

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AndyYau

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LR4.1 RC

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/lightroom4-1.html

Library <> Develop : seems faster

Working with 2 monitors: seems useable, not as slow as LR4

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bcormierAuthor

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update seems to make it run a little faster. can use dual monitors now. the video playback and quick develop are working much smoother now as well. still a lag when switching over to the develop module for the first time. after the first switch it runs perfect.

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LR_Mowang

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There is a test version available which addresses the slowness issues. Go to http://forums.adobe.com/message/4300818

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Ryan Smith Photography

Inspiring

Same here, the library module is fine. But develop is very slow, it's driving me crazy. I'm using a raid and a ssd, I wish there was an upgrade I could do to speed things up but I don't really know what I could do. As a working pro, this is really slowing down my workflow. I really hope they fix speed problems soon.