LightRoom 3, XP & RAW Question

[ccsnet]

Hi - I've just spent 2 days trying to get LR 3 working again on my machine.... been running fine then it went in to a go slow and kept dying.

In short I had to update my SD card drivers ( long story ) that fixed the first prob then secondly delete and recreate my prefence file.....

I'm still finding it slow so I'm thinking the major change I have made of late is using jpg and switching to just RAW..... I'm thinking its a grunt problem.

Now my lappy is no weakling, 256mb dedicated graphics, 1.8 Turion 64, 2gb or memory how ever I am back to running XP 32 bit as Windows 7 heats my processor up to the point it pops of the board ( well known design flaw ).

So my question is.... leave as is.... upgrade to XP 64 for a bit more CPU grunt or upgrade to Vista 64 ( which I dont really like the idea of as its pants ).

Thoughts ?

T

PS Last option is going back to jpg only......

 

[mipevo6]

No point going to 64 bit with only 2gb of memory it won't make any difference.

The CPU is pretty low horsepower and you don't have much RAM.

Can you add RAM ?

 

[fezzr]

Vista isnt really an option as it will slow things down more than speed them up.
Windows 7 is might nicer on the CPU than Vista.

How old is the XP install and how much messing about has gone on? ie installing installing drivers and programs etc.
XP speeds up a lot on a fresh install.

 

[ccsnet]

No point going to 64 bit with only 2gb of memory it won't make any difference.

The CPU is pretty low horsepower and you don't have much RAM.

Can you add RAM ?

Unfortuntly no.... trying to make this last 12 more months....

Vista isnt really an option as it will slow things down more than speed them up.
Windows 7 is might nicer on the CPU than Vista.

How old is the XP install and how much messing about has gone on? ie installing installing drivers and programs etc.
XP speeds up a lot on a fresh install.

Re Vista... thats what I am thinking.... re XP.... just rebuilt it ( I'm in IT so pretty happy its OK ). Re Windows 7..... Its a HP ( last time I'll be getting one for a bit ).... as the GPU get hammered full time its known to pop the chip off the board. I've fixed it a few times ( 8 or 9 ) and I'm not doing it again plus for what I want XP works ok.

It does defo look like RAW files as I've been trying jpgs and its been ok.

Terran

 

[Chappers]

Raw files will tend to be bigger than jpegs and that will but a lot of extra demands on the computer. I ran LR2 on XP on a small Compaq. laptop with 1.25Gb RAM. It was slow. LR3 does need a bit more computing power , so you may be lacking in the RAM dept

Spec for a windows machine for LR3 is 2 GB of RAM, but if memory serves me for LR2 it was only 1Gb. Looks like LR3 has more RAM requirements than LR2

 

[ccsnet]

Raw files will tend to be bigger than jpegs and that will but a lot of extra demands on the computer. I ran LR2 on XP on a small Compaq. laptop with 1.25Gb RAM. It was slow. LR3 does need a bit more computing power , so you may be lacking in the RAM dept

Spec for a windows machine for LR3 is 2 GB of RAM, but if memory serves me for LR2 it was only 1Gb. Looks like LR3 has more RAM requirements than LR2

Thats what I'm thinking although in some configs people have reported LR3 working faster, some slower... so much so I think people are looking for a patch.

Terran

 

[Chappers]

Yes I agree that LR3 can run faster. I've a quad core Mac with 8Gb of RAM and I've noticed certain parts do run faster. But I think you need the computing power to see it. Certainly there were some real rewrites done on LR3 particularly within the develop module. I've seen some improvements as well within the import, especially when it comes to preview renders

 

[cuthbert]

i had this problem - sometimes i found deleting the catalog and letting lightroom rebuild it again made things a bit quicker for a while... i did this 4 or 5 times.

i know some people have ended up having to break their catalog up into smaller pieces - i was going to do this but in the end i got so frustrated by the speed of lightroom, i just bought a new computer.

btw, my old computer was a pentium d 3.2ghz with 4gb ram and 512mb gforce 8500 graphics.

i also found photoshop cs5 frustratingly unresponsive - the clone tool seemingly didn't register mouse clicks instantly so i'd end up with random strokes of cloned areas across the image where i'd released the mouse button and gone to another tool.

the new pc fixed both problems.

 

[ccsnet]

Thanks for the advice all... yep I agree a new computer with more grunt is in order how ever I suspect bits of me may get seperated perminantly seeing as I just bought a DSLR so its going to have to do for the mo.

At least I have the problem established now.....

Terran