Lighroom 6 on windows 10...painfully slow!?

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my lightroom is painfully slow, iv tried all the usual stuff, optimising the catalogues, building all previews 1:1 in the library, increasing the size the cache, using the gpu acceleration doesn't improve anything...there also plenty on space on my c: drive which is also an ssd....am I missing something?? as my system is more than capable of running pretty much anything.
 
I am finding the same thing I regret to say. All the usual things have been tried; going back to v.14.4 of the AMD Radeon graphics software, turning the GPU on and off, starting Ligghtroom in Admin mode, optimising catalog, etc.
The main sluggishness is in showing thumbnails when moving from folder to folder or from collection to collection. I'm hoping that either a point update from Microsoft or from Adobe is going to cure things. Yes, I am bit naive by nature :-)

Anthony.
 
adobe and Microsoft need to get their act together! im finding working with raw files near on impossible once I start using adjustment brushes, etc.
 
It is super smooth for me. I'm running Lightroom 15.1.1 on Windows 10 in current release form. I have use graphics processor switched off as I did before. Can really say any more to be honest. Are you on the current versions? Did you run sfc /scannow in Windows 10 command prompt? Did you reinstall?
 
This is becoming a recurring theme.

LR6 uses GPU acceleration... which is great if you have a fast GPU. If you have a s**t GPU though, it will slow it down.

Switch off GPU acceleration and see if that helps.

LR 6.1.1 here, using a GTX980, and everything is silky smooth. When I move a slider, it's refreshing the screen at 60fps. Switch GPU acceleration off, and it's noticeably slower. This is with a 5GHz 6 core CPU as well, so anyone on a lower spec machine, with a crap GPU would probably suffer a bit.

Also... GPU acceleration will not speed up anything in the library module, nor help with how fast LR resolves the full resolution image. That's more a memory/storage speed issue.
 
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Im using a GTX980Ti, I73770k @4ghz (liquid cooled) 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 @2144MHz, 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD and its f***in terrible...using 6.1.1 aswell...
 
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You say its silky smooth..is that just on the basic sliders? Is that still the case when using multiple gradients, spot removals and adjustment brushes? The lag on the adjustment brush is ridiculous! Its impossible to work on my images...
 
Lord Lorenzo said:
You say its silky smooth..is that just on the basic sliders? Is that still the case when using multiple gradients, spot removals and adjustment brushes? The lag on the adjustment brush is ridiculous! Its impossible to work on my images...
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No lag at all on mine, and my machine isn't as powerful as yours. Core i5 @ 3.5ghz, GTX750Ti, 16Gb Ram. Running lightroom and the previews from an SSD. Generating 1:1 previews on import.
 
As we speak, I am updating my 2015 folders to 1:1 previews to see if there is any improvement. We shall see...

Anthony
 
Lord Lorenzo said:
You say its silky smooth..is that just on the basic sliders? Is that still the case when using multiple gradients, spot removals and adjustment brushes? The lag on the adjustment brush is ridiculous! Its impossible to work on my images...
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Everything is smooth here.

i7 3960X @ 4.7 or 5GHz (depends what I'm doing or how hot the room is) liquid cooled (not that it matters)
EVGA GTX980 Super Clocked
32GB of DDR3 @ 2133MHz
Catalogue is on Dual Samsung 830 512GB SSDs striped (RAID0)

Newly loaded and un-cached images still take around a second to fully resolve though, but LR has always done that for me. (very large raw files).


Your GPU is a little faster than mine, so no idea why you're having issues, sorry.
 
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Lord Lorenzo said:
You say its silky smooth..is that just on the basic sliders? Is that still the case when using multiple gradients, spot removals and adjustment brushes? The lag on the adjustment brush is ridiculous! Its impossible to work on my images...
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No I use brushes as well, hangover from my Aperture days and I love them. All smooth on my Surface Pro 3 both on the inbuilt monitor and the external 4k screen.
 
I have just upgraded to Win 10 and the speed improvement is dramatic LR loads in Library mode in 8 secs and in develop mode ( opening a photo ) in 11 secs
This is copied from the system info in LR
Lightroom version: CC 2015.1.1 [ 1032027 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Operating system: Windows 8.1 Business Edition
Version: 6.3 [9600]
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2.9 GHz
Built-in memory: 16357.6 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 16357.6 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 1577.4 MB (9.6%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 1678.8 MB
Memory cache size: 0.0 MB
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 4
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2
System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 1920x1080, 2) 1280x1024
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

Check OpenGL support: Passed
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Version: 3.3.13399 Core Profile Context 15.200.1046.2
Renderer: AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series
LanguageVersion: 4.40

C Drive is a 256 gb Samsung SSD
Even the graphics processor is working now which it did not do before.
The only thing I noticed was that I ran Glary as a registry cleaner after upgrading and that seemed to speed things up quite a lot and in addition I turned off a lot of the Windows cr*p that runs in the background so I don't know if that made a difference
 
Maybe I am reading it wrong but 11seconds to open a photo :eek: something is not right

Is you machine still doing lots of other stuff like indexing downloading installing in the background?
 
That is from pressing the tile to open LR, not when LR is already open , to open a photo when LR is running is sub 2 secs
 
My one year old desktop, An intel i-5 Packard bell imedia s2885 has got slower and slower as Photoshop has got better. Last year when I first signed up for CC it was great with Photoshop but as each upgrade has come along so it has got slower, an example, it took over 5 minutes to select a white plane from a black background, all the time the task manager was showing Photoshop not responding, Lightroom is spot on fast and usable.
I can't afford to buy a new computer with the spec I would need so have now cancelled the subscription to Adobe, as it is just unusably slow.

I have't noticed any difference at all between the windows 8.1 it was running to the windows 10 it is now running though, it was all bad!!

Trev.
 
mistagain1 said:
My one year old desktop, An intel i-5 Packard bell imedia s2885 has got slower and slower as Photoshop has got better. Last year when I first signed up for CC it was great with Photoshop but as each upgrade has come along so it has got slower,
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This sounds wrong to me. I've had the same PC for 4 years almost now, and been through several versions of Photoshop and there's no speed difference.

Sounds like you need to clear a lot of crap off your machine to me. How much RAM does does it have. An i5 based machine shouldn't be struggling with Photoshop... no way.
 
Pookeyhead said:
This sounds wrong to me. I've had the same PC for 4 years almost now, and been through several versions of Photoshop and there's no speed difference.

Sounds like you need to clear a lot of crap off your machine to me. How much RAM does does it have. An i5 based machine shouldn't be struggling with Photoshop... no way.
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Hi Pookeyhead, I have 8gbddr3,Intel hd4600 graphics card, Intel i-5 4440 and now running windows 10. it has been crap with Photoshop since about January time and has got progressively worse.
There is probably loads of unwanted 5h!t on here, but I don't know what is needed and what isn't, so therefore a little wary of removing anything that may be required for the computer to run.

Sorry if I have taken this thread off course.

Trev.
 
best, safe way to give a clean up is to download and run CCleaner. It's free.
 
Pookeyhead said:
best, safe way to give a clean up is to download and run CCleaner. It's free.
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Thanks I will have a look at that.
I have task manager open now this page and flickr open on windows edge and 33% memory is being used and about 6% of CPU ( I have just uninstalled chrome where the CPU was at a constant 30%) I will run CCleaner and see what happens.
Thanks for your help.

Trev.
 
Great. I was thinking of upgraded to LR6 to solve a myriad of problems I am having with Lightroom at the moment. Now I'm slightly worried I could be introducing more issues.

Coincidently I just posted a thread this morning about GPU issues in PS CS6 with the screen flickering badly. Does anyone who is having the Lightroom issues also have problems editing in Photoshop?
 
connersz said:
Great. I was thinking of upgraded to LR6 to solve a myriad of problems I am having with Lightroom at the moment. Now I'm slightly worried I could be introducing more issues.

Coincidently I just posted a thread this morning about GPU issues in PS CS6 with the screen flickering badly. Does anyone who is having the Lightroom issues also have problems editing in Photoshop?
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Lightroom 6.1.1 works bang on, fast and smooth as you like, Photoshop is the PITA for me.

Trev
 
Using LR 5 here not had any issues.
 
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