Lightroom Classic running slow

[Sam359601060sdb]

Hello,

I've been considering purchasing Lightroom and used the free trial, which has since expired. However, when developing photos, the program was quite laggy on this computer, especially with AI features. When it stalled it would stall the entire device and sometimes shut down, rendering it unusable. 

I am using Windows 11 and my processor is an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics, 1.80 GHz. I've noticed that this is below the system requirements (2GHz), so is this the source of my issue? I have 16GB of RAM installed.

Here is the system info:

Lightroom Classic version: 14.2 [ 202502071718-3869eef7 ]
License: Subscription Ended
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 11 - Home Premium Edition
Version: 11.0.26100
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 16
Processor speed: 1.7GHz
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
CPU Utilisation: 1.0%
Power Source: Plugged In
Built-in memory: 15720.2 MB
Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 33.0MB / 495.5MB (6%)
Real memory available to Lightroom: 15720.2 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 718.2 MB (4.5%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 749.5 MB
GDI objects count: 741
USER objects count: 2610
Process handles count: 2252
Memory cache size: 12.4MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 17.2 [ 2155 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 30MB / 7860MB (0%)
Camera Raw real memory: 31MB / 15720MB (0%)

Cache1:
NT- RAM:0.0MB, VRAM:0.0MB, Combined:0.0MB

Cache2:
m:12.4MB, n:0.0MB

U-main: 85.0MB

System DPI setting: 120 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Standard Preview Size: 1938 pixels
Displays: 1) 1920x1080, 2) 1920x1080
Input types: Multitouch: Yes, Integrated touch: Yes, Integrated pen: Yes, External touch: No, External pen: Yes, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:
DirectX: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (31.0.21916.2)
Init State: GPU for Display supported by default with image processing and export supported in the custom mode
User Preference: Auto
Enable HDR in Library: OFF

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic
Library Path: F:\W----'s Photography 2025\General Catalog\General Catalog.lrcat
Settings Folder: C:\Users\W----i\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

I appreciate any help and advice on this issue.

[dj_paige · Accepted solution]

You are probably right, your hardware is not sufficient to run the AI tools, and may be the cause of general slowness.

[GoldingD · Accepted solution]

Both the CPU (Rate) and GPU (VRAM) not sufficient. RAM Ok for now, but likely not sometime in the future.

[Sam359601060sdb]

Thank you all for your time.