Lightroom 5.6 Slooow!!

Report · Jul 31, 2014

Just downloaded & installed Lightroom 5.6. It seems to be running really slow, taking 5 - 8 seconds to see any response to some commands in the develop module. For example, if I hold down the option key whilst adjusting the white levels, the on-screen response seems to lag markedly. It's a bit inconsistent as to when it happens - sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's reallly slow.

Am running on an iMac 2.7 GHz core i5 with 32 GB of ram. Never had any speed issues before with previous versions.

Wondering whether anybody else is having problems with 5.6?

Report · Oct 14, 2014

This thread helped me, thanks folks. I'm on a 2011 MBP, LR 5.6, OS X 10.9.5. 1TB SSD, 16gb memory.

LR was maddeningly slow, even though I had been optimizing it. I read through this thread and tried several things--unfortunately I didn't do them one at a time so I'm not sure which things helped the most, but here's what I did:

unchecked "automatic graphic switching" (I have a hunch this made a big difference, but not sure)
I had my standard preview size (in LR catalog prefs) set below my screen size. I found a link on this thread to the Adobe page with suggestions on optimizing performance, where it says standard previews should be as big as your display but no bigger (I was thinking smaller would be better for performance, but that makes sense that they need to be the size of my display)
unchecked "automatically write changes to xmp" (in LR metadata prefs). Another hunch that this might have made a big difference.
changed preview quality from standard to low (LR prefs)
purged my video and raw caches (LR prefs)
increased video cache to 9gb (not sure where it was before, probably whatever the default is because I don't remember ever changing that)

Report · Oct 15, 2014

So, after doing all those things, is Lr:

Slightly faster?

Much faster?

All things, or only some things..

??

Report · Oct 15, 2014

Rob Cole wrote:

So, after doing all those things, is Lr:

Slightly faster?

Much faster?

All things, or only some things..

??

A lot faster, with all things I think. Certainly with browsing images, zooming in, using the develop module.

Report · Oct 15, 2014

Thanks jimtron.

I can't help but wonder whether the improvement is reversible - if you change all those things back, would it go slow again? - if you don't want to jinx it now, I wouldn't blame you , but if you could identify causation it would help Adobe fix it (and maybe other users..).

Rob

Report · Oct 15, 2014

I'll see what I can do...do you know what the default video cache setting is (in LR prefs)?

Report · Oct 15, 2014

I think it's 3GB.

You can double-check by closing Lightroom, renaming preferences file, then re-opening Lightroom.

Report · Oct 30, 2014

Go to Preference...General...Catalog Settings. Then Go to File Handling. Set preview quality to LOW and Size to 1024 pixels. That should speed up browsing of photos in 5.6.

Report · Nov 07, 2014

As far as performance in develop is concerned, I find the biggest single hit is if Lens Corrections - Profile Corrections & Chromatic Aberration are turned on. As adjustment brush settings move with the Lens Corrections I turn these off before a serious edit session, and back on at the end just to check all is well. These 2 settings also put a significant hit on slower machines if applied during import, but why oh why can't lightroom do preview creation in parallel during import?

Report · Nov 10, 2014

my dramas are still a bit of an off and on love affair and the daughter's Mac that I use is no better. Seem to be going well until I dug up an old file from 2011 and that killed LR. (????) So I spat the dummy and opened up the never used Nik efex Vivexa..........have just added Elements 12 (run out special AU$114.) to the lappy so I have a spot removal tool and PS is better than LR when using the Nik collection. I still have CS5 on the mac but not sure I will need it. Once understood, Vivexa has some interesting/useful features but not sure how the fast working Pros would appreciate the Nik Collection as bits are spread across different programs. But LR is still #1 approach for me.

I will look into 'Lens Corrections - Profile Corrections & Chromatic Aberration' and see if makes a difference; thanks for that tip.

( and I bet PSE12 is a lot cheaper elsewhere. The Government here just dragged Adobe [and others] over the coals about the much higher prices in Aust than many places in the world; even for downloaded programs.

Report · Nov 11, 2014

It seems now it is my turn ... what worked perfectly before is now consuming time and more time ...running 5.6 on a catalogue of 700 images and after editing about 200 of them, Lightroom has slowed up on every image, Like Deepsoul13 it hits me most when I try and crop, and then the program just hangs and hangs and crashes and I also have two bezel programs in task manager which accompany Lightroom.

I am not making masses of adjustments, just darkening sky, applying lens adjustments, a little tweaking, and then I crop and bam...meltdown.

So I have restored version 5.5 and it is working perfectly again... no issues.

I'm running the 64bit version on Win7 64bit, i5-650 3.2GHZ processor and 16GB RAM

Very glad to see I am not alone......

Report · Nov 12, 2014

On my old pc it runs fine. But on the new one with 8 core.....terrible!! I tried a lot but nothing helps to speed it up like on my old machine.

Adobe...make an effort and solve this!!!!

Report · Dec 09, 2014

I'm very happy to say that the LR 5.7 upgrade has solved all my speed and processing issues - it's business as usual again, just faster 🙂