Lightroom performance decreases with every update
Dear folks @ Adobe,
I've been using Lightroom for years now but instead of getting faster and more streamlined the whole thing becomes slower and slower with every update. I am running an 4.4GHz i7 with 16GB of RAM, 3 fast SSD drives and a GTX 1050 Ti GPU. I am currently working on a very small catalog file with only 300-400 images. However, I use a 4K display for image editing. Hardware (GPU) acceleration is enabled in LR.
- It takes ages to load photos when I click them
- The spot removal tool takes incredibly long to finally mark a spot after I've clicked, and even longer to find a sample to substitute the marked area with.
- Sometimes when the Lightroom window is open and active, CPU load on all cores is between 40% and 60%, even when I don't do anything. CPU load immediately drops below 10% when I switch to another program and stays low until I perform any action in Lightroom
- Again, the spot removal tool sometimes marks areas that I have never clicked on, usually long lines across a major part of the screen.
- Whenever I press the R key in development mode to crop an image, the image I used the crop tool on before appears for the fraction of a second. Why is that, it is just distracting.
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Over the last 12 to 18 months my workflow in Lightroom (which hasn't changed) takes at least 50% longer than it used to. That's just not acceptable in a professional environment. Of course I tried re-installing everything, that, however, did not really solve the issue. I have the impression that whenever I install an update, Lightroom becomes slower. I'm still using my 5D mk III cameras, so my RAW file size has not increased over the last 4 years.
- And yes, I have read your article about improving performance but I did not find any solution. In fact, one line really impressed me:
"To increase performance on such displays, reduce the size of the Lightroom window, or use the 1:2 or 1:3 views in the Navigator panel."
Honestly, you want me to use a smaller area of my monitor for image editing? Are you making fun of me and all the other professional photographers out there spending thousands of $ or € on large high resolution screens?
I know at least two colleagues in person facing and complaining about similar issues with Lightroom. Please do something about that really poor performance - and please do it fast.
Here's an extract of Lightroom's system information:
Lightroom Classic version: 7.4 [ 1176617 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 10 - Business Edition
Version: 10.0.17134
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 4,0 GHz
Built-in memory: 16335,0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 16335,0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 4886,1 MB (29,9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 5483,1 MB
GDI objects count: 681
USER objects count: 2265
Process handles count: 1900
Memory cache size: 1134,8MB
Internal Camera Raw revision: 976
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 3519MB / 8167MB (43%)
Camera Raw real memory: 3532MB / 16335MB (21%)
System DPI setting: 144 DPI (high DPI mode)
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 1920x1200, 2) 3840x2160, 3) 1920x1080
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No
Graphics Processor Info:
DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (23.21.13.8813)
Installed Plugins:
1) AdobeStock
2) Canon Tether Plugin
3) ColorChecker Passport
4) Export to Photomatix Pro
5) Facebook
6) Flickr
7) HDR Efex Pro 2
😎 LR/Mogrify 2
9) Nikon Tether Plugin
Config.lua flags: None
Adapter #1: Vendor : 10de
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