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Tiboine
Tiboine
Inspiring
January 29, 2019
Question

Lightroom CC is slow af

  • January 29, 2019
  • 5 replies
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PC windows 10 latest

i6700k

32GB 2400ghz RAM

SSD

GTX 1070

Yet, Lightroom is slow AF

Tor Ivan Boine on Twitter: "Does anyone have an idea why @Lightroom is so slow? I've done all the "optimization" tricks…

I have done all the tricks, but none of them helped. I even did a clean install of windows. LR worked, for a couple of weeks. Then it went back to being useless.

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Community Expert
Jao vdLCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 1, 2019

Running any antivirus software? Make sure you exclude the catalog and preview database from scanning. Also there is some issue with some sort of indexing service in windows 10 that makes Lightroom Classic startup and opening of the import panel extremely slow as it slows down all requests to show the available hard disks. I don't use windows so don't know where the setting is to turn off but have read about the problem here on the forum.

    Tiboine
    TiboineAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 2, 2019

    Thank you!

    I don't have any anti-virus shite going on. Only windows defender (or what's it called). But I turned off indexing https://winaero.com/blog/disable-search-indexing-windows-10/

    And that seemed to do the trick!

    Now I can finally do stuff instead of having to take a coffee break after each action

    Tiboine
    TiboineAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 4, 2019

    That only worked for a little while. 

     

    LR is somewhat better if I restart the PC beforehand ... 

     

    but it is still crapslow

    Tiboine
    TiboineAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 1, 2019

    Lightroom is the only app on my computer that doesn't work as intended.
    here is an example on how slow it is Lightroom - YouTube

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    July 1, 2019

    Can you answer our questions about your computer and your images?

    Tiboine
    TiboineAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 1, 2019

    it says so in the video ...

    Intel 6700k 4.4 ghz

    nvidia GTX 1070

    32GB 2400mhz

    couple 100 GB free space on each drive

    3440x1440px

    mostly 24 mp images. some bigger panos in dng. but mostly native raw files.

    lightroom app, presets, settings, catalog etc is on SSD.

    images are on HDD

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    June 29, 2019

    the If something worked, then it did. not,  what changed?

    Lightroom Classic upgrade?

    Windows 10 update?

    NVIDIA driver update?

    Other software, other driver

    Some hardware going kaput?

    A change in previews used, a change in metadata options (turned camp sidecars on)

    On the Windows update, Has your power settings changed? Was it High Performance? Should You Use the Balanced, Power Saver, or High Performance Power Plan on Windows?

    On the GPU front, in NVIDIA control panel, is power management set for Maximum? Or did it default back to Optimal? (for Lightroom)

    CMass
    Community Manager
    CMassCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    January 30, 2019

    Hi Tiboine,

    We're sorry to hear the issue has returned. To help us understand what might be happening, please answer the following questions the best of your knowledge.

    • How many files does your catalog have? What is the size of your catalog?
    • Are your images store on a local drive, external hard drive or a NAZ?
    • Have you tried opening Lightroom in Safe Mode? Does the speed improve?

    On Twitter, you mentioned: "yes. I have tried it all. yes, it got better on that other account. but that's no solution."

    Do mean another Windows account?

    You also mentioned you already reinstalled Windows and did a clean install of Lightroom. What other troubleshooting steps have you taken? Please feel free to post links to articles you used as a reference.

    Since reinstalling Windows, have you also verified that your drives are up to date as well?

    What is running slow? Startup, slow on importing/exporting images, brush strokes? This will help us narrow down what might be causing the issue.

    How slow? Any detailed information such as: how long it takes in seconds.  Ex: Exporting 50 photos takes 12 minutes or 5 brush strokes take 9 seconds before you have cursor control again.

    Please DM me the following items via a sharable link such a Creative Cloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc:

    • A higher resolution video of the issue?
    • Your system information, which can be found by going to Help > System Info while in Lightroom.

    I've also reached out to you with direct message.

    Best,

    Carissa

    Tiboine
    TiboineAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 28, 2019
    • My catalog has under 90k images. mostly raws.
    • Images, cache, and catalog are stored on local SSD.
    • I have tried it all. reset the prefs, changed cache size, change catalog location, turned on/off GPU acc. everything.

    Here's a video of the slowness Lightroom slow - YouTube

    Lightroom is less slow when using another local windows account. LR has been so slow for so long that I don't really know how fast/slow LR should be.

    here's the system info LR slow - Pastebin.com

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    June 28, 2019

    It's not slow for me.

    Please be very specific: what actions in Lightroom are slow?

    Tell us your hardware

    • CPU
    • GPU
    • Memory
    • Hard disk free space and total space (if you have several hard disks, give the number for each)
    • Monitor size (in pixels, not inches)

    Also tell us the size of the images taken by your camera (in pixels or megapixels, not megabytes)

      GoldingD
      GoldingD
      Legend
      January 29, 2019

      Are you asking for advice or sharing a tweet?

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