TTLKurtis wrote:
Soooo this thread ended up causing me to update to 4.3 from 4.1 (I am stupid like that). Then I noticed missing camera profiles. I said eff it and opened LR3. And immediately felt like it was way faster and also easier to edit images with and I preferred the colors then as well. I don't think I'll be going back to LR4.
I have to chuckle at Adobe's expense. The vast array of issues and results across different machines, hardware and platforms is simply baffling. I'm in the exact opposite camp. Like many others, mine is finally flying. I doubt I'll update again because 4.3 has been the fastest version for me ever. 4.2 was great, and I really rolled the dice with 4.3. I think I'll hold my gambling right there for now. I've made a habit of keeping every single version release just so I can have my pick.
Maybe old news to most, but Adobe has posted a fair amount of information in regard to best performance. The most recent update I saw included specific workflow tips.
I am running Windows 7, 16gb ram, 240gb SSD on a 4 core 3.2 cpu, just build that thing in december, with 2 gb video card, so LR should be smoking and it was until I upgraded it to 4.3.
sgtbueno wrote:
I am running Windows 7, 16gb ram, 240gb SSD on a 4 core 3.2 cpu, just build that thing in december, with 2 gb video card, so LR should be smoking and it was until I upgraded it to 4.3.
I was in the same boat. Noticeable slowdown. I deleted the preference file and now its back up to speed.
Just flew through a family session from yesterday in 15 minutes. 120 images culled to 60+ and processed. Lovin' 4.3. Win8, 12gb, 300gb SSD in RAID (although I've started working on the data HDD with no speed diff), 6 core oc'd 4.2ghz. Happiest I've been... ever.
Seems most complaining are on Win7 or Mac. Win8 made a huge difference for me. Deleting the pref file a few versions back made a huge difference, but I think that goes without saying by now.
^delete all preferences from previous versions that may be on your machine too. Some have observed that preference files can sometimes to inherit junk from other versions.
More Ram does not = more speed if high chip density means that your latencies are crap.
morganb4 wrote:
^delete all preferences from previous versions that may be on your machine too. Some have observed that preference files can sometimes to inherit junk from other versions.
More Ram does not = more speed if high chip density means that your latencies are crap.
It is a brand new Dell XPS 8500, so no old versions. I found that deleting preference files did not help at all for a new machine.
Latency is 9 only.
Each photo still has an obvious loading period. It is a lot faster on the I7 machine than the other Core i5 machine certainly. But the photo loading/preview is instant on LR3.4 in the I5 machine.
LR 4.3 is turtle speed compared to LR 3.4's rabbit speed.
david, do you split up software and where photos are stored along with catalog? or do they all reside on the same HD?
Is your machine running lean and mean? Did you get rid of un-necessary software running in the background?
How much ram did you allocate for light room? I did find changing from 5 gig to 20 gig helped in overall performance.
I am doing okay with an old Dell XPS430.
This spring-early summer i will build my own.
sozypozy wrote:
4.3 is really slow! you should carry on using 4.2
I'm getting instantaneous response to image adjustments in 4.3. Have not even deleted my preferences file. So your blanket statement about 4.3 is not valid.
Ziffl3 wrote:
david, do you split up software and where photos are stored along with catalog? or do they all reside on the same HD?
Is your machine running lean and mean? Did you get rid of un-necessary software running in the background?
How much ram did you allocate for light room? I did find changing from 5 gig to 20 gig helped in overall performance.
I am doing okay with an old Dell XPS430.
This spring-early summer i will build my own.
I always put the photos and catalog in the same HD.
The software usually runs on C drive and the photos are on D drive. Since this is a brand new machine, other software runs super fast, except LR 4.3. I got the G Skill 32GB memory for this new computer just to speed up the LR 4.3.
LR 4.3 is running in a reasonable speed in the new machine but compared to LR 3.4, it is as SLOW as a turtle.
There are no right or wrong answers. Every person's machine's results seem to be completely independent of others. The vast issues are hardware related.
About the only things that are "improving" matters seem to be deleting the pref file on both Mac/PC platforms, and upgrading to Win8 on PC. Outside that, no one can really point to a specific reason as to why there are speed issues across some many different machines and hardware combinations... INCLUDING Adobe.
David, have you tried a brand new catalog from scratch?
Run a Xbench on mac (may be a PC version or similar software) to see exactly what your HD configured speeds are, and do it for any drives storing data or catalogs, as well as system. Then post those.
Regardless of system or vintage, there is an incredible spread of speed range that affects LR and its loading and running more than RAM, etc.
