LR Classic 7.3 super slow

Report · Apr 06, 2018

After update Lightroom is incredible slowly during sinc with other photos. When you try crop, LR open the last image you cropped and then the one you trying to edit. Right now I am trying to export a slideshow, the bar is on top, nothing happen, no sign of progress. SO MANY PROBLEMS. Anyone having the same issues?

My sistem is a macbook pro retina 13" 2015, Sierra 10.13.4, 8GB .

Report · Apr 09, 2018

Hello, I have the same problem. The module revealed suddenly to become very slow, the same thing happens to me with the clipping tool.

I am very angry.

I have an iMac (Retina 5K, 27", last 2014), 4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB

High Sierra 10.13.4

Report · Jun 17, 2018

I had the same problem since the latest update, but it seems to be totally resolved now.

My catalogue is really old and I had been thinking about making a new one, I didn't have the confidence to just go ahead and do it, but decided as the whole thing was unusable anyway I may as well give it a go. So I looked up how to do this (great online users guide, thanks) and went ahead. I have over 80,000 pictures, so it took a couple of hours to reimport them into the new catalogue.

Well, the unexpected consequence of this is that I can suddenly change modules in the blink of an eye, no longer get a few seconds of the previous photo in crop, and no lagging when running through images. It is amazing.

Really hope this works for all of you too.

Report · Jun 17, 2018

Well, do you know how much work that is? You lose all you edit information as long you don't save them first to XMP sidecar files. For that, you must mark all images and press Cmd+S. Your image edits are so also usable in Bridge/Camera Raw. But CR has no database, it works with the flat files only, this means, all virtual copies will get lost.

I never tried this: export all images to a new database. On > 200k images a rather time consuming process.

Because Lightroom does not prevent Mac going to sleep, start "Terminal" and run

caffeinate -i

When Lr has finished, you can cancel caffeinate by simply closing Terminal or pressing Ctrl+C if Terminal window is active.

Have fun

Report · Jun 17, 2018

Well that's great! I am just wondering why do you keep the same catalog. Every month I make a new one with the clients and work for that specific month and I backup the previous catalog. Something like that.

2018 > 06. June (catálogo) > 17. Client X

What do you think?

Report · Jun 17, 2018

I use keywords very precise and will lose my ability to search throughout the DB. For customers I only work with Bridge, you drag and drop the folder: done. No hassle with database files.

Report · Apr 10, 2018

I haven't use such slow app since the windows-XP period... I'm seriously thinking of moving to other apps. Adobe's behavior is ''I take your money & run''

Report · Apr 10, 2018

Hi Al_barraz, yiannisz83733662 and jhessicaviana,

Sorry that you're facing performance issue with Lightroom Classic CC since the 7.3 version update.

Could you please check if the app still performs slowly if you uncheck "use graphics processor" under the Preferences> Performance menu?

Also, please refer this article Optimize Lightroom performance and let us know if the suggestions to optimize the app helps.

Thanks,

Akash

Report · Apr 10, 2018

Hi Akash,

I have tried all the above since the very beginning I started using the new 7.3 version and nothing changed...

I use a notebook with nVidia 1060 card and 16gb ram, and Lightroom is sooo terribly slow like never before, especially with Fujifilm's RAWs is a nightmare.

Report · Apr 10, 2018

Hello Akash Sharma,

I also noticed a decline in performance, indeed from version 7.0 there was a decline in performance. The most common problems are an excessive consumption of CPU power and a very low use of the Graphic Processor by Lr...why???

I use an iMac 27 "5k 2017 with Intel i7 quad-core and an 8GB GPU with 32 GB of RAM and I noticed many lag with the brush, especially after inserting Sharpening Noise reduction and Remove Cromatic Aberration ... which is also normal, but absurd that it happens. Also the Lag using the Crop, which appears for a few moments the previous image and then the current one to be modified.

But above all the excessive use of CPU that I do not see justified for the type of work that Lr performs.

I use various loopholes to avoid these delays and I'm not complaining, but anyway there are and it is useless to deny it.

I hope that sooner or later all this is clear to Adobe and that they make an acceptable release from a performance point of view.

Greetings

Report · Apr 19, 2018

OK!

So I have a one month old Mac Book Pro Touch 15 2017 model, with 2.9ghz processor, 16gb RAM, 4gb Radeon and latest version of High Sierra.

Lightroom runs terribly, mind just to be sure I'm not crazy I've wiped the computer and reinstalled, reset the PRAM and all that.

Uninstalled and reinstalled everything from Adobe and it runs like total garbage.

Trying to edit a 1gb TIFF panorama image that I originally put together and edited back in 2010 on a 2009 mobile iMac with 4gb RAM and didn't have as many issues as I'm having now with the lag between applying settings being a couple of seconds making it hard to make fine adjustments.

Mind you don't have this issue in Photoshop using the Camera RAW filter setting applying the exact same settings, it is FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR faster than in Lightroom.

Turning the GPU acceleration off doesn't make a difference just makes things even slower.

Adobe, get your act together!

It is WIDELY reported that Lightroom CC is slow, just google it, youtube it etc, stop being in denial and admit it is bloated crap that needs to be completely rewritten.

Report · Apr 19, 2018

If things like "Optimize Lightroom Performance" are necessary after an update, Adobe is shifting it's problem from Company to customer.

Super bad behaviour. Specially because following all this crap they help by 99.9% NOTHING.

All Adobe procucts are PC/Windows optimized but not macOS. And this is an ugly thing of Adobe.

Time to full change to Capture One - which has become noticeably faster on each update (I started a 7, at current date, 2018-04-20, it's version 11).

Damned Adobe, make your software using macOS's performance optimised APIs. THAT's the correct solution for all that problems.

FCPX is e.g. on a e.g. three yrs old MacBook Pro faster as Premiere Pro on the fastest todays PCs - even Adobe claims to have it PC optimised. Just another advertising lie.

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Akash+Sharma wrote
Hi Al_barraz, yiannisz83733662 and jhessicaviana,
<<snip-snap>>
Also, please refer this article Optimize Lightroom performance and let us know if the suggestions to optimize the app helps

Report · Apr 20, 2018

It's pathetic.

The program has serious issues, I've downgraded to 7.0 at least that's usable now.

Report · May 05, 2018

Mine has not been disabled, and 7.3.1 is super slow anyway.

In fact: it is not simply super slow, I gonna bet (and I am pretty sure I will win): it is heating up the system by wasting CPU and GPU resources for one or more false programmed subroutines, e.g. 100'000 times called unnecessary too often.

Looks like no one of the developers at Adobe knows, how to use a developer tools called "Profiler". You my identify such problems with the blink of an eye using Profilers.

1. But it is advanced to trivial "Syntax Error" compiler messages - too hard to handle for Adobe's developer teams?

2. Or blocked by management decisions, to focus man power on implementing upcoming new functions instead of consolidating released software to customer satisfaction?

I pretty sure, No 2. is the problem.

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Akash+Sharma wrote
Hi Al_barraz, yiannisz83733662 and jhessicaviana,
Sorry that you're facing performance issue with Lightroom Classic CC since the 7.3 version update.
Could you please check if the app still performs slowly if you uncheck "use graphics processor" under the Preferences> Performance menu?
Also, please refer this article Optimize Lightroom performance and let us know if the suggestions to optimize the app helps.
Thanks,
Akash

Report · Jun 27, 2018

That worked for me, back to what I expect from Lightroom.

Report · Apr 11, 2018

Yeah, Adobe did it again and messed up once more.

On Mac, all of the Adobe software since ever is super slow, because optimized for crappy PC/Windows.

Lr 7.3 is now hyper slow and has become UNUSABLE .

And a battery drainer.

When will Adoble learn, to implement macOS APIs instead of trying to transform their own PC/Windows optimized thing to Mac? This will never work out performant.

Using macOS APIs they could improve speed of Adobe software on Mac by at least factor 10 or so.

It looks like, at Adobe nobody in charge of anything knows, that 99.9% of the graphics industry and artists work with Mac instead of this creepy crappy Windows trash thing.

And YES: Adobe managed it also: Radial/Zoom Blur has still NO PREVIEW with the current Ps version 2018 (19.1.3). This is a complaint from soooooooo many persons since 2004 or so.

Dinosaur behaviour of Adobe. They think there is no need, to listen to the customers. IBM did also. Now companies in China make the former IBM PC.@

Damned Adobe, fix this It is not funny

As soon Serif Software has something like Bridge or Lightroom to support Affinity Photo, I will quit my subscription at once.

Report · Apr 14, 2018

The 7.3 is unusable for me when applying any of the mask and clone features and my specs aren't slow. I am getting the prior crop image issue too. I had to reinstall 7.2.

Model Name: Mac Pro

Model Identifier: MacPro5,1

Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Processor Speed: 3.2 GHz

Memory: 32 GB

Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s

Chipset Model: AMD Radeon HD 7950

VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 3072 MB

Report · Apr 19, 2018

Definitly not for professional use. Even not for amateurs...

Capture One will be my not so far next choice!

Mac Pro Late 2013, yes the one with crappy AMD FirePro D500 3072 Mo GPU / 2,7 GHz 12-Core Intel Xeon E5 / 64 Go Memory

Report · Apr 19, 2018

Today it was so particularly slow for me that I had to record a video

Its so unusable at this point that I'm wondering if I should ask for a refund until they find a solution.

Sorry for the poor quality, I had to record with my phone as screen recorders wouldn't work with lightroom sucking up all computer resources.

Computer specs:

core i5 4590 3.3ghz

8gb of RAM

2 disk drives, one SSD for the cache and OS, one magnetic for the catalog and picture storage (although disk usage is pretty minimal)

windows 10

nvidia 970 (tried both with and without GPU support, same deal)

Report · Apr 19, 2018

The only solution at the moment is: Go back to Lr CC Classic 7.2 by Creative Cloud Installer. There have been no DB issues on my Lr DBs.

Thanks for the video. Oh, I see you are using a PC. So, I am aware, that Adobe now also messed up with PC/Windows (they once claimed to optimise their products for PC/Windows instead of macOS/Mac).

Cheers, Roland

Report · Apr 20, 2018

I have an MSI GS73VR, i7, 1060-nividia, 16g RAM, I never had problem with other apps, only with Lightroom -always, no matter the version, but this last one now IT SUCKS. PERIOD. I went back to 7.2 version but I can't say I'm super happy either as with Fuji RAWs Lightroom is always super slow.

I just started a try of the DXO-Optics and purchased already for only 50usd the new LUMINAR-2018 (you listen Adobe? just 50usd for ever(!), not 50usd every month for just using 2 apps I need from you!) and they both run so nicely, I had forgot how easy it was to work with my photos...

Report · Apr 19, 2018

You may go back to 7.2. On my computers it worked, DB was not messed up.

Report · Apr 20, 2018

Look, I think we don't gain much by threatening adobe to switch to another program.

I'm more like "hey, how can we help you to help us?". I've recorded a video, I can send you log files if you want, or whatever your engineering team needs to sort this out. But I think the way to go here is to embrace the slowness and be proactive at looking at a solution.

Being an engineer myself, I took a Windows process dump of lightroom when it was consuming CPU like hell, is that of help? I've compressed the file with 7zip's gzip to reduce file size a bit. Here's the download link: Lightroom.DMP.gz - Google Drive

I really want to help you iron out this issue so I can keep using the software I paid for, but please be vocal about it.

Report · Apr 21, 2018

threatening? where you see this? I'm talking facts, that I pay for something that SUCKS. It makes me so mad every time I work with it that I want to smash my laptop

Report · Apr 26, 2018

Hot tip.

I just downgraded to Lightroom 6, OMG the performance improvements are amazing.

It just flies compared to 7.0 to 7.3.1