Why does Lightroom Classic take up to 5 minutes to launch?

[tonymuffin]

Why does Lightroom Classic take up to 5 minutes to launch?  I am running a computer with Windows 11 with all updates.  The computer resources are:  8 core processor, 32GB Ram, 8TB hard drive space, 6GB NVidia display card.  I don't understand why it takes so long for Lightroom Classic to launch and be responsive.

How does one fix this?

Thanks

[Sean McCormack]

How large is your catalog? What speed is the drive? Is it one drive or is the 8TB over a few drives? Have you considered adding an SDD to speed everything? 

[tonymuffin]

The catalog is 2.855128 TB

All 3 drives are 7200 

I have not considered adding an SDD drive

[Per Berntsen]

Do you have the LogiOptions plugin installed? Go to File > Plugin manager to check, disable it if it's there.

It has been known to cause very long startup times.

[tonymuffin]

I do not have LogiOptions plugin installed.

[Sean McCormack]

The SSD can make a difference to software loading as well as catalog loading. I defer to @Per Berntsen on the LogiOptions to check as well. @dj_paige is spot on about additional plugins extending load times. 

[tonymuffin]

I installed a 4th drive which is SSD and moved my Catalog to it.  Makes no difference...

[dj_paige · Accepted solution]

If you have 3rd party plug-ins, disable all of these 3rd party plug-ins, and see if the launch speed improves. If it improves, then one at a time enable the plug-ins to determine which one is causing the problem.

[GoldingD]

Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste that information into a reply. Please present all information from first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut out as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs and it takes up vast amounts of scroll space making the reply less readable and less likely that others will bother with your post.

[tonymuffin]

Lightroom Classic version: 13.1 [ 202312111226-41a494e8 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 11 - Business Edition
Version: 11.0.22631
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 16
Processor speed: 3.6GHz
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
CPU Utilisation: 0.0%
Built-in memory: 32635.9 MB
Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 452.0MB / 4047.8MB (11%)
Real memory available to Lightroom: 32635.9 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 1787.5 MB (5.4%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 2482.2 MB
GDI objects count: 832
USER objects count: 2916
Process handles count: 2338
Memory cache size: 63.2MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 16.1 [ 1728 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 56MB / 16317MB (0%)
Camera Raw real memory: 61MB / 32635MB (0%)
System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Standard Preview Size: 3840 pixels
Displays: 1) 3840x2160
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:
DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (31.0.15.4633)
Init State: GPU for Image Processing supported by default with custom export support
User Preference: Auto

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic
Library Path: G:\2023_New_Catalog\2023_New_Catalog-v13.lrcat
Settings Folder: C:\Users\tdeha\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

Installed Plugins:
1) Luminar 4
2) Luminar Neo

[GoldingD]

I your original post you stated:

The computer resources are:  8 core processor, 32GB Ram, 8TB hard drive space, 6GB NVidia display card.

In today's  posting of system info, the VRAM shows up as 4GB

Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 452.0MB / 4047.8MB (11%)

 Did you change the GPU?

And if so, why such an old one:

DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (31.0.15.4633)

[tonymuffin]

I did not change the GPU.  Why such an old one?  It's the one I have.

[tonymuffin]

@GoldingD  So what GPU do you recommend that won't break the bank?

[KR Seals]

Please explain how it was Solved. That info might help other fourm users.

[tonymuffin]

I did explain  how I solved it.  And, I saw my response after I posted it.  No idea why it is not here now.  As I stated prior... I removed all the plug-ins but the one that I use all the time and that fixed the issue.

[Sean McCormack]

Based on this, I'm marking @dj_paige's response as the correct answer. 

[tonymuffin]

This is NOT solved.  It is back to taking up to 5 minutes to launch Lightroom Classic.  Not to mention that after using Lightroom and closing the application my computer becomes very sluggish and unstable.