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Archive 2019 · Make LR faster

  
 
Alan321
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RobertLynn wrote:
What components can I replace for faster performance?



Try upgrading Lr.

If you don't like that idea then experiment with a trial version to see how much you are missing out on.

Just recently, Lr Classic ("LrC") v8.4 got the ability to better use the GPU for image editing and it seems to be working faster. Not quite so recently, LrC got to use all available logical CPU cores (at least all 12 on my intel i7-6850K) for importing and building previews. I get about 90% CPU usage instead of about 10-20%.

Throw in the older smart previews for editing very large pictures and LrC is now much snappier than it used to be. It will actually utilise all those other goodies you change in your computer, except perhaps for the RAM. I think the main benefit of more than 16GB of RAM, as far as Lr goes, is to let the OS use a bigger disk cache. Ps might like it too if you edit large files. Personally, I have never seen Lr reach 16GB on my 64GB system.

If you want faster TIFF transfers then avoiding compression probably still helps. Ps used to spend way more time compressing and decompressing TIFF files than was saved in the transfers to and from storage. Perhaps it can do more than one file at a time nowadays. I've done too little TIFF work in Lr to know how it is affected.



Aug 23, 2019 at 04:02 PM
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charlyw wrote:
Lightroom Classic is considerably faster than the old non subscription versions - Lightroom (what formerly was known as LR CC) has nothing to do with Lightroom as you know it and is slower and a lot more cumbersome for image management..


To make sure I under this point - are you saying that Lightroom is slower than Lightroom Classic? That isn't my experience at all. In fact, Lightroom is much faster for me than Lightroom Classic is. Clearly it doesn't do everything Classic does and perhaps if one has slow internet that could bog things down.



Aug 23, 2019 at 08:29 PM
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I appreciate the replies. I’m in my next pickle now-

I have the ssd to install in the system. My mobo has one m2 slot. I have two hard drives in the pc. An intel optane enhanced one that uses a HDD spot AND the “enhanced” module uses the m2 spot. You cannot remove the m2 module and keep the hard drive. That hard drive is the one that contains my OS.

My “storage” drive, where I keep my lr photos is a slow, well worn HDD.

I need to get the new SSD installed but I’ll need to get my OS onto another drive. I’m not quite sure what process I use to move my OS to the storage drive I currently use, then install the new SSD in the system- put the OS, LR, and possibly some of the files I work on in LR on it- then just use the storage drive as simply storage.

I’d reckon that my Samsung external SSDs are faster than my internal hitachi storage drive.



Aug 24, 2019 at 07:51 AM
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