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I have tried playing with the Lightroom brush tool. However I'm concerned something isn't right with mine, Say I was to to lower exposure in an area, many take the brightness out of a light bulb, that is drawing the eye. I'll set the brush to about -2 stops exposure and click on the light. Nothing happens the program freezes. If I click again it says lightroom is not responding, then 10's of seconds later it comes back to life with the edit in place. To me it seems like it is broken, something isn't working right, am I right in thinking it should be near enough instant when making these edits? Now it shouldn't be my PC, I built it myself, to a very high spec. i7, 16gb 1600mhz DDR3, SSD's, Crossfired Graphics etc.

Any ideas?
 
I had a similar issue with a much lower spec laptop than your PC. I did a reinstall and it worked perfectly from then on. You mayhave already tried that however. I know that some people have complained of performance issues with LR 5 but your problem goes beyond that I think.
 
It's lightroom 4 I have, I'll try a reinstall. Cheers!
 
I reinstalled, tried it on a smaller catalogue, and increased the cache to 10gb. Still doing it.


See the video for an example, that is fast compared to normal I have waited over 30 seconds before.
 
I went from 4gb of RAM to 8gb costing about £27 & all my laggy problems with LR solved :)
 
As John above says - RAM can make a big difference - but that isnt your problem. I would be referring this to Adobe I think however I would be interested to see the result using LR 5. I would uninstall LR4 and try a trial version of LR 5 to see if this is a conflict effecting LR 4 only. Good luck.
 
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Funnily enough I never had a problem with 4gb in LR4 but it all started when I went to LR5 but hey I'm NO IT expert :(
 
Maybe I'll try LR5, I really dont want to pay for an upgrade however because of impaired functionality in the this version.

i have posted a question in the community forums however no reply.
 
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I had this very problem and did all the usual things like increasing cache size, etc. It turned out that I had a (slowly) dying hard drive which was where the cache/scratch disk (for PS) were located. Once that was removed from the system and the caches/scratch disk relocated, everything flew along. Even the shut down on the computer is much faster, all because the endless retries to read/write to the iffy disk. So it might be worth checking this aspect out perhaps?

Anthony.
 
I tried LR5 and it is the same. I'll try moving the Cache.
 
Moved the Cache, no joy, getting fed up with this, is there any support other than the forum? Seem a bit of a p*** take a relatively expensive piece of professional software's only support is a user community forum.
 
Someone may help later - sometimes it can take time for those that may know to reply so don't despair yet.
 
Yeah I have a thread up off the back of that I got an email from a friendly Adobe 'Tier 3 Support Engineer' she seems Knowledgeable so I have high hopes. She has gotten me to try some things. But still I cannot use the tool.

The Graduated filter is the same however everything else runs fine. It is just as slow on a 24kb JPEG as a 20+mb RAW.
 
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