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December 15, 2019
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Old i5 7500 for edit

  • December 15, 2019
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Hi,

I am start getting into photo editing and decided to download Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. However I have an old i5 7500 3.40Hz and when I am working on some photos the Lightroom gets SUPER slow and I need to wait a few seconds to refresh the work. Do I need to upgrade my processor in order to have a smooth workflow? If so what you guys recommend? I would like to keep the Intel system and if possible a budget friendly option.

Note: I have 8GB of RAM I tried upgrade to 16GB but the problem is still there.

Thank you in advance.

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Correct answer dj_paige

"For example I have this photo which I applied multiple brush strokes for healing spots and after that lightroom started to get slower. It might be just a softwared limitation more than my hardware limitation."

 

This is a common problem, doing lots of brushing and/or a lot of spot healing on an image causes the system to slow to a crawl. One thing you can do is turn OFF the GPU acceleration, which is known to cause slowness when doing a lot of brushing and/or a lot of spot healing. Note: this may cause other things to become slow that were not slow before.

 

Also, the larger your original images are (in megapixels, not megabytes), the worse this problem is. How large are your original images? And the larger your monitor is in pixels (not inches), the worse this problem is, and a faster CPU (not a "budget" CPU) is probably the only solution. How large is your monitor?

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Tacafy大尉
Tacafy大尉
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December 15, 2019

lkezaki, good evening.
The CPU and memory capacity seem to be fine (in fact, it is a few steps higher than the environment I use).
There are some contents in this document,

Optimize performance

Check if the GPU driver is up to date.
What about storage capacity?
Using SSDs with faster access speeds than HDDs is another improvement.

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    responsible_Serenade5CACAuthor
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    December 15, 2019

    Hi TkfY,

     

    Thank you for the reply.

     

    I was reading the guide you suggested and I saw one thing that made sense. When I open a RAW file the Lightroom performs pretty well, however if I have a heavy edit photo than the performance starts do drop pretty bad. For example I have this photo which I applied multiple brush strokes for healing spots and after that lightroom started to get slower. It might be just a softwared limitation more than my hardware limitation.

     

    Thank you once again.

    dj_paige
    dj_paigeCorrect answer
    Legend
    December 15, 2019

    "For example I have this photo which I applied multiple brush strokes for healing spots and after that lightroom started to get slower. It might be just a softwared limitation more than my hardware limitation."

     

    This is a common problem, doing lots of brushing and/or a lot of spot healing on an image causes the system to slow to a crawl. One thing you can do is turn OFF the GPU acceleration, which is known to cause slowness when doing a lot of brushing and/or a lot of spot healing. Note: this may cause other things to become slow that were not slow before.

     

    Also, the larger your original images are (in megapixels, not megabytes), the worse this problem is. How large are your original images? And the larger your monitor is in pixels (not inches), the worse this problem is, and a faster CPU (not a "budget" CPU) is probably the only solution. How large is your monitor?

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