Monitor problem (U2412M)

dan_yorkshire

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Hi all,

Had my Dell monitor a few weeks now and really like using it, calibrated it using Spyder.

Been a bit daft though and had it plugged into laptop with mirrored display and had it at the laptops resolution, never upped the resolution to its recommended maximum.

However since I've upped the resolution from 1280 to 1920 Lightroom is on go slow when uploading the thumbnails, to an unusable level.

Is this a graphics card problem or is there something else I could try?

Cheers, Dan
 
i7-2630QM

Intel HD Graphics 3000

4GB DDR3

Should be enough the cope, when in Lightroom only my performance shows memory at 1.9GB so around half what's available.

This is with lower resolution set.

With higher resolution set I notice CPU usage jumps to 80% when loading thumbnails, some load faster than others it's the odd one that takes ages.

I'm not great with computer specs so sorry if this isn't the info you're after.

Any ideas?
 
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I'm not sure Neil, never touched that setting.

When I'm in develop mode and have the filmstrip on the bottom and scroll through using left and right arrow keys they're taking a lot longer to upload from a blurred initial load than when I lower the resolution.

Obviously this is only on first visit of each photo after reboot. Once visited then they are there ready to go.
 
dan_yorkshire said:
I'm not sure Neil, never touched that setting.

When I'm in develop mode and have the filmstrip on the bottom and scroll through using left and right arrow keys they're taking a lot longer to upload from a blurred initial load than when I lower the resolution.

Obviously this is only on first visit of each photo after reboot. Once visited then they are there ready to go.
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Replace your laptop's HDD with an SSD.... See: http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/ssds-and-lightroom.417126/
 
arad85 said:
Replace your laptop's HDD with an SSD.... See: http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/ssds-and-lightroom.417126/
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Cheers for the link, to be honest a lot of that went over my head and I was hoping that I wouldn't need to add more expense to an already expensive laptop just because I'd bought a new monitor.

It seems to be faster thismorning now I've set up the monitors to be extended and not mirrored.

Need to tinker with preview options as mentioned above too.
 
dan_yorkshire said:
to be honest a lot of that went over my head
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The bottom line is if you have a mechanical HDD in a current expensive laptop, it will become obvious it is the limiting factor when you start reading lots of data off it.
 
arad85 said:
The bottom line is if you have a mechanical HDD in a current expensive laptop, it will become obvious it is the limiting factor when you start reading lots of data off it.
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And by 'lots of data' you mean when opening/previewing images at a higher resolution? As on my laptop alone everything works smoothly.

Excuse my lack of knowledge, computer workings really not my thing.
 
dan_yorkshire said:
And by 'lots of data' you mean when opening/previewing images at a higher resolution? As on my laptop alone everything works smoothly.

Excuse my lack of knowledge, computer workings really not my thing.
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Open the Task Manager and have a look at disk activity (Task Manager->Resource Monitor->Disk tab) and monitor that when you are browsing images. If the system has lots of files open, it is that...
 
Well it seems running the laptop and new Dell monitor as extended works a treat, even more so when the laptop is the main screen (containing windows explorer etc) leaving the big calibrated one to Lightroom/Photoshop.

It mustn't have been happy running two vastly different resolutions in mirror mode.

Cheers everyone for your input
 
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