Lightroom 4 Slow Loading

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Hi all,

Apologies if this has been asked before but....
I use Lightroom 4 for my PP, I love everything about it (layout, sliders etc.), I find the effects and tweaks are fine loading however whenever I zoom in on an image (to check focus) and/or then cycle through my images it takes an age to load. Is this due to my system? Everything else is fast enough, however the loading between images is painful especially when trying to sort through lots of images after a long day.

I have a Dell, Pentium Core 2 Duo, with 3GB RAM and loads of hard-drive space running Vista SP2, as far as I am aware this is more than the recommended requirements.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Tom.
 
Do you render the 1:1 previews before you start editing? It takes a while but then when you are going through the images it should be pretty quick
 
I've noticed my laptop with 4GB of RAM is slower with LR4 than LR3.
They recommend 4GB as a minimum.
The worst thing is exporting to photoshop which takes at least twice as long.
 
Thanks for the quick replies, the LR 4 adobe site says a minimum of 2GB of RAM so 3 should be sufficient, il check out those guides and look into the 1:1 rendering, as I'm not sure what this means I almost certainly am not doing it! Will post the results incase it helps others.

Thanks

Tom
 
the path is
in the Library panel go

Library>Previews>Render 1:1 previews.

This will take a while but its best to let it do this in go while you do something else because LR will have to do this rendering before you can view the image 1:1 when you zoom in to check focus.
 
My system has 16GB RAM and it takes almost a second to render, sometimes a bit longer on a 70mb Tiff, more RAM is what you need by the sounds of it.
Thankfully it's getting cheaper unless you need a better motherboard to accommodate the extra memory.
The minimum is never enough because all they want is to sell their product, if they put 8GB then i think not as many people would buy it. Quite clever really.
 
Lightroom doesn't use much memory, I've never seen it top 2.5gb. That said 3gb is pretty low for any system these days, however put any more in and you'll need to change to a 64bit os.

CPU and hard drive (changing to ssd) will be the best upgrade for it.
 
I've recently changed my lightroom drive (external) to a SSD and USB3 enclosure.

It's awesome, on an all new level.
 
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