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October 25, 2019
Question

Lightroom Classic is Being Slow

  • October 25, 2019
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Hi, everyone! I am in need of some help. My Lightroom Classic has been acting up lately to the point where I cannot edit even two or three photos without getting the spinning beach ball, or the preview of the photo not showing up at all in the develop module. I am getting kinda frustrated as I have a long list of editing to tend to. I recently bought a new lacie rugged drive to replace my old/slower one and even this one can’t seem to keep up. I’ve cleared space on my disk, updated Lightroom, and updated my laptop; the only thing I haven’t done is replace my external drive even though it’s only a couple months old. Could this be a problem with my laptop, external drive, etc.?? Any help in troubleshooting would be greatly appreciated! 

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GoldingD
Legend
October 25, 2019

The external drive, what sort of port is it using? USB 2, 3, C? Firewire? etc If USB does it behave better if you plug it into a different port?

 

Even if you are not saving to it.

 

 

GoldingD
Legend
October 25, 2019

And did you recently update your OS? Your GPU driver?

 

Sometimes updates alter performance settings to defaults

 

GoldingD
Legend
October 25, 2019

Please share your Sys Info as Lightroom Classic reports it. Select Help, click on System Info, then Copy. Paste that in your reply

 

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Community Expert
October 25, 2019

Please try switch off the GPU support from the Lightroom preferences and check if that helps to fix the issue

Go to Lightroom > Preferences > Performance tab > Uncheck "Use Graphics Processor" > Restart Lightroom.

Adobe Lightroom GPU Troubleshooting and FAQ 

 

If this doesn't help we need more information about your system.

Which hardware and operating system do you use?

Which version of Lightroom do you use? 

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 9 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI