Adobe virus?

TonyPrower

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I recently went back to Adobe CC for Lightroom and Photoshop after a year break from the subscription. I was really shocked to see the same computer struggle with the CPU loads of the Adobe software. My compuer was useless for an hour after some processing. I complained to Adobe and they gave me 3 months for free while I addressed the issues (apparently my responsibility). Does anyone have similar experience? Any tips for reducing the Adobe load?
 
Is it the same version you had before? Do you do anything else that puts the machine under load that continues to perform normally? Is the system 'busy' or is it thermally throttling?

There are lots of reasons machines run slow, but it could be the software.
 
Well I had to upgrade to Windows 10 to run the new CC version. I spent some time disabling annoying windows features, but there could still be some bloat-ware slowing things down. Lightroom is the only program that affects my system significantly ( and so significantly). For example editing video (Vegas) doesn't slow the system at all.
 
Curious. If you have enabled it to use the graphics card then you should disable that. Check in task manager how much resource it's using.

You mentioned upgrading to W10 to run cc. This is probably NOT the same lightroom (6?) that you ran previously, and may well have a much bigger overhead.
 
I very much doubt that you have an "Adobe Virus" (never heard of one). If you've a) upgraded to Widows 10, and b) upgraded to the latest LR, then I suspect that the machine may be the culprit.
 
Thanks! After loosing my income to sickness and then the lockdowns, I am far from being able to buy a new machine. 'Adobe Virus' was just a bit of a joke :) BUT it doesn't act like an infected computer.
 
It has to be said the newer versions of Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop are horrendous resource hogs. Both products seemed to get much worse from that perspective around 12 months or so ago

It may be coincidence but quite possibly around the same time they fixed some serious security flaws in the products
 
It is true that you need a high spec computer for Adobe now. My PC is 8 years old and struggles sometimes so will be replaced soon. However, it is running some of the Topaz Plug-ins which really stresses it. I need a more powerful Graphics card (possibly more RAM), faster HDD and faster processor. I am holding on because I understand that there are currently component shortages so deliveries late and prices high due to COVID.

Dave
 
TonyPrower said:
Thanks! After loosing my income to sickness and then the lockdowns, I am far from being able to buy a new machine. 'Adobe Virus' was just a bit of a joke :) BUT it doesn't act like an infected computer.
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What hardware are you running now Tony?
 
TonyPrower said:
It's an old Lenovo Laptop - bought 2nd hand from cash converters 3 years ago. It has 6gb RAM Intel core 2.40 Ghz
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That will never be happy with cc lightroom, and would struggle with lr5. I had a MacBook, 2ghz core 2 duo 8gb ram, and lightroom 5 was horribly slow even though it was a current machine for the software. Editing was possible, but hard going.
 
In your position I'd look at a lightweight Linux install with dark table or RawTherapee. You could make a bootable pen drive to try it from without committing to change anything.
 
I might have a version of Photoshop Elements 9 you could have.
It has ACR to process raw files and think I could also have a book to go with it
If I can find it, system requirements are as follows
1.6 GHz or faster processor, .
1 GB of RAM (2 GB for HD video functions)
3 GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation
 
TonyPrower said:
It's an old Lenovo Laptop - bought 2nd hand from cash converters 3 years ago. It has 6gb RAM Intel core 2.40 Ghz
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I can crash mine with 32GB RAM. You probably will want to think about 64GB soon.
 
Adobe products always seem to need more RAM than you have installed. Photoshop Elements wasn't too bad but these days there's plenty of free software like OS-X Preview that does most of what I need for free.
 
sk66 said:
I'm currently running PS 22.2 as it's the last one that correctly recognizes/accesses my video card. PS/LR sure seem to make my computer run hotter/slower recently.
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I had the same thing and kept on 22.2 for a while. In my case switching off GPU acceleration allows later versions to run and haven’t noticed any horrible side effects........
 
Krisstiffer said:
I had the same thing and kept on 22.2 for a while. In my case switching off GPU acceleration allows later versions to run and haven’t noticed any horrible side effects........
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I get massive lagging in the display update when I use tools like levels/curves w/ later versions (GPU acceleration disabled by PS). E.g. if I use a white point dropper in a levels adjustment layer the image does not update until I move the midpoint/gamma slider.
 
Dave Canon said:
It is true that you need a high spec computer for Adobe now. My PC is 8 years old and struggles sometimes so will be replaced soon. However, it is running some of the Topaz Plug-ins which really stresses it. I need a more powerful Graphics card (possibly more RAM), faster HDD and faster processor. I am holding on because I understand that there are currently component shortages so deliveries late and prices high due to COVID.

Dave
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What is your current PC setup, Dave ?
 
I have a PC Specialist Desktop with an i7 2700k 3.5 Ghz, 16 Gb RAM, Nvidia Ge Force GT640 and plenty of disk space but all HDD. This is only really limited when running Topaz DeNoise AI which can tale 10-15 mins on a large file for the final process. I will probably buy from PCS again and be looking for a faster processor, more powerful Graphics card and 32GB of RAM min and I will probably buy a solid state disc.

Dave
 
My photoshop runs perfectly fine on my desktop PC - No issue to report here :)

Les
 
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