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Experiencing performance related issues in Lightroom 4.3 or later

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December 18, 2012
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Since the original Experiencing performance related issues in Lightroom 4.x thread is now a whopping 43 pages long, and many of the original 4.0-4.2 performance issues have since been resolved, it's impossible to figure out who is still having problems, and what they can try. I'm therefore locking that thread to new posts, and putting a link to this one.

If you're having problems in 4.0 - 4.2, please update to 4.3. Here are the links: Windows - Mac You may also be interested in these Performance Hints, many of which were gathered from the long thread.

If you're still having problems with 4.3, please then go ahead and post below. Don't forget to include details such as your system specs (OS, processor, RAM, graphics card, etc), camera model and whether you shoot raw or JPEG, and what specifically you're finding slow (and ideally some timings on how slow). It's also useful to include notes of things you've tried to fix it.,

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eyelanoesis

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Like someone mentioned above, for me turning off the "detail" panel causes the biggest change in performance of everything I've tried. And I have tried quite a lot... New catalog, old catalog, Fresh installs, cache, prefference file, windows tweaking.

I am currently on 4.4 and I haven't noticed these issues so badly before, maybe because I recently upgraded to a camera with much bigger files and upped my workfolw to much heavier PP.

Really, this is so enoying... in a big set of pictures with alot of PP I can sometimes wait 10secs for a crop to apply and everthing just feels so laggy.. Even the interface lags out at times where I can wait more than 10secs for a mouse-over effect on a button or a slider- never mind being able to interact with anything. All the while my CPU is doing litterally nothing and the rest of my system works fine.

System is 3 months old Thinkpad W530 I7quad 2.6, 32GB ddr3, quadro K2000M 2GB, 2x256 SATA6 SSD..

This is so ennoying, I really love Lightroom, but this lag is not viable for a professional workflow...

The only thing I can think of right now, is to find a way to Globally dissable the "details panel" to get a more usable responsiveness when needed. Any idea as to how I might go about doing that?

Victoria Bampton LR Queen

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Community Expert

AutoSync (the little switch next to the Sync botton) will let you toggle the panel switch on all the selected photos.

I'll be interested to hear what you think of LR5 beta's speed - performance will Detail panel settings enabled has been one of the bigger improvements that I've noticed.

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen

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ralarcon_d3s

Participant

The Lr performance on my system has now gotten to a point where is it almost useless for bigger projects that require heavy PP.

Does anyone here know of any performance related utilities/benchmarks aimed at adobe products?

LR4 was very slow on my PC after i upgraded from LR3. All the usual issues covered by others in this forum. I decided to upgrade to x64 bit and did a clean install on my pc. I upgraded to 8gb ram. My pc is overall running faster and LR4 is back to what LR3 was on my x32bit set up. I don't think is too much an issue with my earlier set up or the fact that i have more Ram now; i think it was the clean install that has made the difference in my opinion. So perhaps is the years of windows updates, upgrades in software and corruption of registry and other OS files that are mainly at fault. So worth trying formating your harddisk and starting again from scratch.

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Albasol

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I was very happy with 3.4 ignoring little thinks. It was aceptable fast and I could do my work well. Regretfully I updated to 4.3 and it went mad. I my photo disapears when I double click in Library and move to develop. In develop I only got a grey frame. When working with two screns I can see the photo in the secondary screen but not in the main. Nevertheless, the photo shows from the filmstrip in the Develp module. When I see the photo and click to crop it again desapears and I and lef with the grey freme. It is crayzy. What can be done??????????'''' Please help.......

Windows 7, Toshiba T7200, Canon G12 and Canon 400D

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deeeeDeeee

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Lightroom 4.3 Mac OS 10.8.3 Epson 2200 printer with latest driver

Everything was working beautifully till I updated to Java 7. Now I can't print anything because my computer crashes as soon as I try. There must be a relation, although I can't find out anything. Advise Please?

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sberley

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lr 4.3 is driving me bananas. It's just so slow doing everything - even just switching modules between library and develop.

my machine is a macbook pro 13" retina 2.9 ghz i7, w/8gb ram and a 512 gb ssd (no slouch at all)

my cameras are Nikon d7000 and Sony rx100.

it seems 4.3 is noticibly slower than 4.2 was.

it's so bad that I keep hoping Aperture 4 would come out so I can compare performance and possibly switch.

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therealHERSHEY

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Just uninstall 4.3 and reinstall 4.2. That's what I did a month ago and I've never looked back. 4.2 is super fast on my retina MBP. I'll wait until 4.4 comes out before updating again.

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Anonymous

Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie - I've just upgraded from 4.2 to 4.3 on a windows 7 machine and I'm seeing some of the issues described above, running slow, photos remaining blurry when they should be sharp. I'd like to go back to 4.2 but I'm worried about what I might lose. If I uninstall 4.3 using the Windows Control Panel and then reinstall from a downloaded 4.2 file what do I lose in the Library? Do I need to save/back-up anything before I do it? Or is there a better way to go back to 4.2 than using the Windows Control Panel to uninstall?

Many thanks

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alpacadom

Participant

I'm having issues with blurry images in library view. I render 1:1 previews of my Canon 60'd RAW files on import, but when I open photos in library view, some photos (not all) will appear blurry or unsharp. There is no "loading" indicator, and the photo stayed blurred until I either zoom in and back out again or collapse the side panels. This seems to force a reload of the photo.

It seems others are having similar issues, and it is an annoying problem. I shouldn't have to guess wether the photo is out of focus or Lightroom is rendering my photo incorrectly.

Specs: MacBook Pro 2010, OS X 10.8.2, Lightroom 4.3

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derekfeldman

Participating Frequently

I'm having similar problems, and I do not like the sickening feeling when half of my photos initally seem to be out of focus. I would love to have a fix for this.

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astenz

Participant

So the slowness for my machine seems to be in the rendering of the files on the screen. I've rendered the 1 to 1 preview, but every time I click to load a new image, there is a delay. During that delay each image go through 3 states as the "loading" is on the bottom of the image. It's initial view, then it changes and gets slightly blurry (and offsets a few pixels sideways and down). And then it renders the full, ready to edit clear version).

So, is it a bottleneck in memory? Is it a bottleneck in drives? I can't figure it out. I'm running LR on an SSD, a 2nd SSD for the catalog and cache and a set of standard HHD (RAID 0) for the photos. I've tried putting the photos on different drives and there seems to be some speed up (so my next step is to move my photos drive). I've started a new cat file but that hasn't changed the speed really.

Anyway - I'm throwing it out there FWIW.

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mlurker

Participant

I've just installed a fresh copy of WIN 8 PRO x64 on my laptop, office 2013 and LR 4.3. It takes more than a minute to launch lightroom with an empty catalog!!! 3.x version with 30 thousands of photos was super fast.

Laptop specs:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quard Q9000: 2GH x 4 cores

RAM: 4 GB

HDD: 500 GB 7200 RPM

Video: ATI Radeon 4650 (1024 RAM)

Resolution: 1600 x 900

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Anonymous

I've had LR4.3 installed for a few weeks now and I thought it was a bit slow. I just tried editing some wedding photos and after half an hour I realised it was unusably slow for me. All versions of LR before #4 worked brill with me (4GB RAM PC).

So I've gone back to LR3.3 for wedding photos and of course it's working like a dream. I may use LR4.3 for some landscape work, but certainly not for weddings. I need to be able to use markers like clarity and noise reduction in particular without having to wait seconds for each little adjustment to show up. Unusable!

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Anonymous

Still no response from Adobe?

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Anonymous

Version 4.3 doesn't improve for me. It's even more slower than the 4.2.... Its almost unusable to process raw files (It will takes days to process my pictures).

30 sec to build a 1:1 preview (almost 60 if I enable lens profile/correction).

Scroll at 1:1 preview very laggy

between 45-60 sec to export to jpeg (depends on the details on the picture and without doing anything, If I reduced LR to surf in taskbar its a lot slower)

so when there is 100-200 photos, it will takes me days or weeks to finish them.

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eagleyenono

Participant

Hi Christian,

Ty this : http://photocamel.com/forum/computers-software/162752-help-lightroom-4-1-slow-performance-problems.html

And if it doesn't work proceed to a full reinstall of your Windows OS on your PC. It worked fine for me and then it was day and night using LR.

Arno

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bob frost

Inspiring

Trashing your LR preferences file has long been advocated as a first step in problem-solving. The slight complication with LR is that if you have any prefs files for older versions of LR - LR3, or LR2, then LR4 may/will cannabalise these old prefs files in building a new one for LR4. So either delete all prefs files in the prefs folder, or at least rename the old ones - stick 'old' in front of their name. Then run LR4 and it will create a fresh prefs file. Hopefully this may cure your problems.

Bob frost

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phototomtom

Participant

Video playback is still horrible with stutter and jerky playback. The video I'm trying to play is MTS container (AVS video/AC3 audio), which is one of the LR approved formats. This is a problem with the LR4.3 video player (as with previous versions of LR4) and not with my windows default codecs as suggested by others. In fact, I've spent an entire morning trying numerous default codecs on my win7 machine without success. Yet I can play these same files on WMP, WMC, MPC-HC, Zoner, and other freeware directshow players using those same codecs with no stuttering. It's frustrating I can't use LR to view my videos, let alone attemp to edit video.

Recently I tried exporting a few videos to burn to DVD, approximately 15 minutes of video. The export process took over 4 hours. Only God knows what LR was doing while utilizing all my pc resources. And when it finally gave me the go ahead to burn to disk, it was unplayable because the file formats were incorrect endoded.. Sadly again, I resort to using on one of the various freeware software programs to perform this simple burning task. Which BTW offers far more burning features and options in a far more intuitive GUI..

In short, there is no reasonable explanation why the latest iteration of LR cannot perform simple video handling tasks, the way it's advertised to work.

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Anonymous

System: Win7-32bit OS, Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.67GHz, 4 gb ram, 180gb Intel SSD and a ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series video card.

I find a multitude of problems with 4.3. I have tried the helpful hints and none nor all of them did anything to change the situation.

Using any of the local tools and LR bogs down after about the 2 or 3 adjustment or adjustments on 3 or 4 pictures
Not only is it non-responsive for seconds at a time (on the order of 30 - 90 seconds) sometimes it just quits working, or so it seems
I find cropping also frequently locks up LR room for multiple seconds, even minutes.

It appears anything other than simple basic adjustments and LR goes into limbo.

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Anonymous

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I find a multitude of problems with 4.3. I have tried the helpful hints and none nor all of them did anything to change the situation.
Using any of the local tools and LR bogs down after about the 2 or 3 adjustment or adjustments on 3 or 4 pictures
Not only is it non-responsive for seconds at a time (on the order of 30 - 90 seconds) sometimes it just quits working, or so it seems
I find cropping also frequently locks up LR room for multiple seconds, even minutes.
It appears anything other than simple basic adjustments and LR goes into limbo."

Having fought this problem since version 4 came out I recently upgraded my software from win7 32 bit to 64bit and my memory from 4GB to 8GB (actually installed 16gb but can't get win7 to recognize the other 8gb - different problem. If anyone has an idea on solving this one I am all ears). Also added an identical Intel SSD and reinstalled all of my s/w. As a result LR appears to be 'quick as a bunny' and more importantly does bog down under the above scenarios. FWIW.

D Fosse

Community Expert

colblip wrote:
actually installed 16gb but can't get win7 to recognize the other 8gb

If you built this yourself:

Take a look in the motherboard manual; it could well be that it only supports 8GB. That was a very common limit a couple of years ago. If that's not it a BIOS update could be in order (be careful and follow procedure to the letter, if the update fails the board is...well, toast).

If it's a "brand" machine try their forums.

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