Performance regression browsing images on 4k monitor

[RH_1234]

I've been using Lightroom Classic for more than 12 years. I've got a big workstation with lots of CPU and GPU. Lightroom Classic worked great last year on this computer. Now it takes approximately 0.7 seconds to change photos in Library mode. I narrowed it down to the fact that my monitor is in 4k resolution. If I drag Lightroom to my second monitor (1440p resolution) the image switching performance is back to normal. If I lower the resolution of my 4k display to 1440p or lower, the performance is back to normal. This computer used to run Lightroom normally on this same display with all the same settings (same preview size, image import settings, etc). This is a performance regression and it makes Lightroom essentially unusable for my workflow culling and managing a lot of images from my shoots.

I'm on windows 11 23H2. Everything is fully updated (Windows 11.0.22631, NVIDIA graphics drivers 566.03, Lightroom Classic 14.0.1).

System Info is attached.

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[fani kurti]

Thanks for your quick reply.

I just upgraded the GPU driver and the results did not change. Actually it took 10 seconds more than last time i measured it.

Actually i just realised that the version 14.0.1 is so so sooooo slow, even at very basic tasks, like moving forward from one photo to the next one and next one at both "Library" module and "Develop" module... 

I was using version 12.5 until a few days ago and, moving forward from one photo to the next used to be virtually instantaneous at 4K resolution,  with no lag at all. Now, with the 14.0.1 version it requires 4-5 seconds to fully open.

For the first 2 seconds it opens at low resolution (almost pixelated) and than it updates to high 4K resolution after 4-5 seconds. This is so annoying for high number of photos. The GGrid module isn't as bad as the first two modules but still quite clumsy and not as responsive as version 12.5.

My laptop is just 2 years old. You would think that 64gb of ram, 16 Tb of fast nvme and i9 processor would be at least just OK... but its not apparently.

[johnrellis]

When LR doesn't automatically enable use of the GPU for export, that's because it's making an educated guess that it won't help (or could hurt).

As for your general slowth in LR 14, one thing that has helped some people here is to set Preferences > Performance > Use Graphics Processor to Custom and select Enable HDR In Library. You'd think it shouldn't affect anything if you're not displaying HDR-edited images, but it has helped a number of people here.

If that doesn't help, others here might have better suggestions.

[fani kurti]

Wow! Crazy thing. Enabling the HDR made a huge difference in Library, Grid and Develop modules. They should check this by default.

I was struggling with the overall slow interface of version 14. I was thinking of rolling back to version 12.5 but now i think i can work comfortably with version 14 as well.

This is huge for me!

Thank you very much! 

About the Exporting.... i  will keep GPU off for now and hope that i will find a solution one day, but it is not a deal breaker at this point. 

Thanks again!

[johnrellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography: Please merge with this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/performance-regression-browsing-images-...

A number of people have reported that enabled Preferences > Performance > Enable HDR In Library fixes severe performance problems, even though they're not doing HDR editing. It would be good to collect all those reports in one place.

[Ian Lyons]

@johnrellis 

I  reported it internally on Monday (11 November).