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lightroom very slow and sluggish :-(

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February 25, 2018
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im not sure why lightroom gets so slow for me when im using it

my computer is a proteus IV laptop, 32GB Ram, Nvidia 1060GTX 6gb, i have a 2TB hybrid drive (with the photos on it) and a 512 SSD C drive and 4.1 Ghz processor (when overclocked) the native GHZ is 3. something. i think its fast enough

when im editing photos , after a certain while it begins to slow down and get unbearably slow, to the point where its taking like 5 or even 10 seconds to update when i apply a setting, this begins to feel discouraging after a while and i start to get frustrated and my work suffers.

currently im editing 300 photos that i took last night on 3 different jobs

any ideas? do i need to do something on my end? or is this a bug or what?

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joshuaj34634235

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Just throwing this out there, the amount of Develop Presets you have can have a large impact on performance. Having a lot of Presets, for some reason (while not even being used), can cause LR to run sluggish. Delete any and all Presets you do not use and you should see a bug increase in preformance. Atleast I did. I still get sluggish responses when trying to do certain things and I am running a very compatible system that I also use for Video editing and have no issues doing that. LR has always been sluggish with some tasks, like Importing, Exporting, Creating Previews, etc.

I am running LR on a 2020 custom built PC

Win 10

AMD 3900X 4.0 (boosted)

64 Gigs RAM 3600 (best for that CPU)

Water Cooled System

AMD 6800 GPU

zizanius

Participating Frequently

My pc rig costs about 5.000$ with 128 gigs of ram and 2080 graphics. and stil lightroom is the slowest software i have ever exprerienced....

and yess i got only ssd's

GoldingD

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My pc rig costs about 5.000$ with 128 gigs of ram and 2080 graphics. and stil lightroom is the slowest software i have ever exprerienced....
and yess i got only ssd's

Current running display resolution?

thomasg81969045

Known Participant

Any solutions ?

Guys, how do you work in Lr with this problem?

Did you try a previous version ?

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davidjwbailey

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Adobe LR Classic

Nikon NEF to DNG at 6000 x 4000

1920 * 1200 DELL monitor

i9-9900 CPU at 3.6GHz with 16 cores and 5GHz top clock

nVidia 2080i GPU

Intel z390 mobo
32Gb RAM
OS and LR software on NVM M.2 drive
Images and Catalogs on SSD

Runs appallingly slowly. Takes 3 to 5 seconds to move from image to image, cursor lags inputs, processor permanently churning at about 5% in background (I left it running for 2 days, just in case it was face recognition ...)

So, frankly, its the software, guys. Lightroom used to be (on a much older PC) greased lightning fast. Something got broken in 2018, and if it means removing features, please speed it up before adding features. Speed matters.

GoldingD

Legend

davidjwbailey wrote
Adobe LR Classic
Nikon NEF to DNG at 6000 x 4000
1920 * 1200 DELL monitor
i9-9900 CPU at 3.6GHz with 16 cores and 5GHz top clock
nVidia 2080i GPU
Intel z390 mobo
32Gb RAM
OS and LR software on NVM M.2 drive
Images and Catalogs on SSD
Runs appallingly slowly. Takes 3 to 5 seconds to move from image to image, cursor lags inputs, processor permanently churning at about 5% in background (I left it running for 2 days, just in case it was face recognition ...)
So, frankly, its the software, guys. Lightroom used to be (on a much older PC) greased lightning fast. Something got broken in 2018, and if it means removing features, please speed it up before adding features. Speed matters.

Typically no Adobe personnel viewing this forum, just other users.

To actually get Adobe’s attention post your problem at: Lightroom Classic | Photoshop Family Customer Community

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DustinKerstein

Participating Frequently

I think the simplest way to see one of the core issues is by just resizing the Lightroom window - it's extremely sluggish on both my Lenovo X1 Yoga 3rd gen (UHD620) and Lenovo X1 Extreme (1050Ti). This UI sluggishness is apparent in pretty much all graphical Lightroom interactions (scrolling in grid view, photo edits, etc.) and doesn't respond to activating/deactivating GPU acceleration or any other "Lightroom performance optimization" found online, and has been evident in all recent Lightroom versions I've tried (recently tested on 7.4 and 8.1). Also, lowering the display resolution doesn't solve this either, and I'm also able to replicate the exact same issue with a completely empty Lightroom catalog.

Can other folks who experience performance issues confirm that you see this type of sluggishness when resizing the window?

anzer7043373

Participant

Editing RAW photos res 6000x4000, camera Canon EOS 750D, using Lightroom for 4 yrs now. Approx. 2 months ago I bought a new computer, went from workstation to PC mainly because rendering and editing issues - work performance. Bought myself a decent PC which should eat Lightroom easily. Editing second library now and I am certain after I finish this project I will never use Lightroom again. The only thing that makes LR better than PS is that you can sync. more photos easier and faster than in PS (using script can do that aswell).

I mean it is dissapointing if you can´t edit 15 photos easily on a PC which costs around 3k. And by editing I mean: Crop, tone change, exposure, vertical allignment and removing chromatic abernation, without using any brushes or gradient whatsoever.

PC specs:

UserBenchmarks: Game 123%, Desk 162%, Work 173%

CPU: AMD Ryzen TR 2950X -> 16-core CPU Oc at 4.0 Ghz

GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti

SSD: Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB

HDD: Toshiba P300 1TB

USB: Toshiba StorE HDD 750GB

RAM: Crucial CT16G4DFD824A.M16FD 2x16GB

MBD: Asus PRIME X399-A

Alex Petrenko

Known Participant

There is one main comment missing: No money can buy you fast Lightroom.

There are many tweaks that will theoretically increase how fast your Lightroom works, but they will help just barely, nothing noticeable.

It will run slow on any hardware.

dj_paige

Legend

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Alex+Petrenko wrote
There is one main comment missing: No money can buy you fast Lightroom.
There are many tweaks that will theoretically increase how fast your Lightroom works, but they will help just barely, nothing noticeable.
It will run slow on any hardware.

And yet there are many people (including me) who are not having speed issues.

Alex Petrenko

Known Participant

Based on probability, some combination of hardware and software should exists in this world on which LR runs fast. At least Adobe developers believe that their code works brilliantly

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gregohbocc

Participant

I have horrible slowness problems with LR classic. I have folder syncs, or moving folders still going overnight - literally hours do something that should take 15 minutes.

I am using a Mac Pro 2013 with 128GB of ram, and a new 512GB SSD hard disk which is only 10% full. I have my LR catalog on a raid of 4 SSD's, cache was at 12 gb although recently upped to 40 gb. I have about 400K images on an external USB3 drive (3.8 gb full out of 5 gb). I recently installed this new hard disk and re-installed LR Classic from Adobe, and created a new catalog.

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ianf94279553

Participant

I am still at a loss to understand why LR often freezes for several seconds when I am inserting keywords. I can understand with images since they have to load in. I will often input keyword, switch to the next image and the keywords for the previous image still show. Dell 7572. i7 8550 16 GB ram, Samsung evo 970 500gb + 1gb HD .All images and Lightroom catalogue are on the SSD. I have increased cache to 50gb.

I am still running LR6.14 as the internet here is very poor and I often can't access it.

GoldingD

Legend

Reading thru all this I do not see one particular inquiry for the OP.

I see your using a laptop. Is it plugged in or are you running on battery?

Laptops might throttle down cpu usage when on battery.

Hmm, and after a while it slows down, on battery? Having a charging problem if on the cord?

matlab22

Participant

I am facing the same problem on my notebook. It runs smooth and fast in the first place. But after placing some photos in the album mode it slows down painfully. Even the right click menu disappears. It only loads the outer frame, with no text. Also some menu items from the drop down menu are gone. However only a restart of the computer helps. After that lightroom is fast and smooth until everything repeats.

What I tried so far:

Setting notebook to best performance

Disabling GPU assistant (Does not help, I think this makes it worse. It slows down faster, but this is just a gut feeling)

Any solution?

GoldingD

Legend

1. Recommend that you repost your issue as a new discussion instead of adding to a year old discussion,

2. when you do, in addition to stating your issue add a follow up comment with system information.

to get that system information in a helpful way, in LR click on Help, click on System Information, click on Copy, paste into followup comments.

3. Also comment on how large your catalog is in MB, how big the hard drive it is in in MB and how much free space exists on that hard drive, both in MB and %.

4. And, are you running that notebook on battery or plugged in to electricity.

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ianf94279553

Participant

So is the consensus that hardware acelertion should be turned off for all processes in LR. I am using LR6.1 .....rubbish net for CC here.

Inserting keywords often causes LR to give the message "Lightroom is not responding" I have a Dell with i7 8550U 16 gb ram Lightroom and pics all on Samsung 500 gb Evo 970

DdeGannes

Community Expert

This a general comment on those who have performance issues with Lightroom Classic. See the link below to advice from Adobe to optimise performance.

Optimize Lightroom performance

Remember your computer will be limited by the performance of the weakest link. Look at all the items in the article.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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