Lightroom Classic tethered capture does not work with Microsoft laptop studio

[jilllee]

I have recently changed my computer to a Surface Laptop Studio from a Surface Pro 4.

I have a Canon 5D Mark IV camera, I am using Windows 11.

Lightroom tethered capture worked fine with my old computer.

Now it is unpredictable, temperamental and unreliable.

If you ask what happens it can be many things, not just one and sometimes it works.

Sometimes it can’t find the camera.

Sometimes the camera is busy, I have to unplug and start again.

Sometimes it all looks fine, I take the picture and it doesn’t come into Lightroom and other times it does.

Sometimes I get a blank window in Lightroom

Below is a list in the order that it happens

No camera detected

A blank window comes up

Lightroom crashed

Started lightroom again the tethering bar came up beautifully, I took the picture, nothing in lightroom, a blank window came up, the programme crashed.

I turned my camera off.  Started Lightroom again, tethered capture, bar up ready to shoot, turned the camera on, took the picture, all good.

I seem to remember something similar happening when I purchase Surface Pro 4. 

I didn’t do tether capture for a long time.  Then one day I tried again.

This is after a few updates.  It worked fine.

I have jobs coming up and I can’t do them when it is so unreliable.

I recently spent time with a Microsoft technician who I think reinstalled Windows 11.  This did not help.

Everything seems to be up to date.

[LinSims]

Let me move this to the Lightroom Classic forum for you, which is the appropriate forum for your question.

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[Todd Shaner]

Try disabling the GPUand see if that fixes the issue. In LrC Edit> Preferences> Performance set 'Use Graphics Processor' to Off as shown below. Close and restart LrC to apply the setting change.

[LensImaging]

I recently purchased a new Windows 11 laptop, installed CC on it and am trying to shoot tethered to Lr, with very mixed results.  I just 'invested' a day learning about graphics card interference and how to change that, then I learned about Task Manager and ending a Task Tree in there (not for the faint of heart) and how unsuccessful I was Killing programs which continued to run and take up precious memory (both Lr and Nvidia).  I have about decided to throw in the towel, because these two issues when not managed make shooting tethered to Lr very slow or impossible.  The only time I had good results was the first time I rebooted my computer and restarted Lr after switching Nvidia to 'High Performance' - there I had less than a second before a photo would come in from my Canon 5D mk4, after that, both Adobe Lr and Nvidia had programs stacked on top of and duplicated 2x or 3x in Task Manager and WOULD NOT BE KILLED.  I am seriously considering abandoning Lr tether shooting all together.