Lightroom Painfully Slow

Abambo​, @dj_paige, thanks for your reply guys but this is a contradiction to

Adobe Lightroom GPU Troubleshooting and FAQ

However, at the moment I am facing a way more ugly problem: since over an hour I am waiting for Lr to quit a tiny catalog with about 1000 wedding images I edited. But the only thing what's going on is boiling the CPU:

I have no clue if I can force quit Lr without losing all my edits in the catalog... FYC: there are no hardware, issues, all other software is running as expected.

Cheers,

Roland

Setup:

Lightroom 7.4 / Camera RAW 10.4.0.976

iMac 5K Late 2015, 4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB, 1 TB SSD.

Disk: Super fast SSD G-Drive USB3 connected

Work to do:

Trying to do a spot removal on a panorama 26476 x 3791. It's a DNG, created by Lr's panorama merge.

Issue:

Never ending story. Impossible. Takes infinite amount of time.

Complaint:

This is so worse. Fact is: Adobe give a sh?t on customer feedback and/or satisfaction. They are arrogant and do not listen.

Point. That's the story. Take the money and slap right into customers face. Left and right cheek at once.

hi,

i found a solution for my really slow lightroom cc catalog (about 40000 pictures).

Perhaps this would help:

- change setting of your antivirus solution: exclude the lightroom cache folder

- change setting of windows indexing: exclude the lightroom cache folder  

Huh, this is ridiculous. I think I'll just cancel my CC then, Lr and it's cataloging features was the main reason for me to take this path. There's Affinity Photo to blow Lr away, there's Inkscape to sideline Illustrator, there's Htifilm instead of Premiere and AE. Audition has excellent audio retouching features, which will be hard to replace, but I can live without those. I can do everything I need to with a fraction of the money I'm paying for dysfunctional software, again.

It's probably due to the count of cores of your CPU.

LR does not play nice with more than 4 cores.

Please read this thread: Terrible performance in LR - Fantastic in PP. What gives?!

I noticed yesterday (March 14, 2017) after installing the update (2015.9) LR was running more slowly. I'm in a good position to evaluate that performance, after spending most of the last ten days working on assignment post-production. I saw a definite decline in speediness after installing the new update. Yes, I have restarted the computer! I work on Macbook Pro, 16 MG RAM, and very fast everything.

Hi Andystock. you are not on your own with this issue, quite a few are having similar performance issues. Unfortunately I don't have a solution.

you could try switching off Use GPU in preferences. A couple of people have had some success in deleting the cache folder and rebuilding (can take a seriously long time though - someone's here took 3 days, and they had to keep stopping and starting LR)

For many its been getting progressively worse over the last few releases. I've given up on looking for a solution and moved to a different software and have been astounded at the performance difference. Of course, its a big learning curve to move to something else, plus a cost.

It's almost like since Lightroom comes bundled with Photoshop the support team thinks of it as a free program and not to dedicate too much resources to it - I hope that isn't the case but that's how it feels as a user.

Hope switching off USE GPU helps you.