Lightroom 6X slower to open a DNG than a PSD of the same file
OK, the upside of the Stay at Home order is time to figure how really bad somethings are, and by that I mean Lightroom/Camera RAW. A couple of months ago I noticed that it seemed to be taking longer to open DNG files, so today I tested opening a DNG and a PSD of the same file. The PSD opening in under 5 seconds the the DNG take over 31 seconds. WTH!
I'm running
- Lightroom Classic 9.2
- Camera Raw 12.2
- Photoshop 21.1.1
- Windows 10 64bit
- 64 Gigs RAM
- SSD drives (C:, running drive, and Cache drive are all M.2 SSDs)
I've attached/linked a real time video of the two different files opening to Photoshop. For this video
- Lightroom is open
- Photoshop is open
- I open the DNG file (13 Megs) - after it opens 32 seconds, I close it and
- Open the PSD file (327 Megs) - opens in under 5 seconds
The PSD files is 25x larger than the DNG, so why does it take 6x longer to open the DNG file?
