PS CS5 and LR3 Performance issues

edk · 07-03-2010, 07:06 AM

i recently upgraded to PS CS5 and Ligtroom 3. my pc spec is core 2 duo 4gb ram nVidia 8800GTS320Mb running Win7 64bit. its not rocket ship, but runs solid. CS4 and LR2.x ran very well without any perfomance or reliability issues. when I upgraded, i uninstalled first and ran clean installs for both apps. for the most part, there is no big difference in performance even when both are open at the same time. if i start browsing in LR3 though, it almost instantly uses 2Gb of Ram and doesn't let go of it until i either shut the app down, or leave it alone for about 5 minutes. it makes little difference if i use a catalogue with several thousand images or just a few hundred. has anyone else experienced this or found a work around?

JDtech · 07-03-2010, 07:57 AM

I think LR is the culprit. It has always been slow for me. Key is to locate the database on your fastest drive and optimize the database as soon as you can. Other than that, I don't know how you get fast performance from it--of course, my photo catalog is very large. Maybe it's fast with smaller ones.

edk · 07-03-2010, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by JDtech

...Maybe it's fast with smaller ones.

tried it with databases with just few hundred images. seems to be whenever it needs to render images from thumbnail to preview to zoomed size (or at least when it needs to do a few at a time); ah well, just need to buy more ram

JDtech · 07-03-2010, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by edk

tried it with databases with just few hundred images. seems to be whenever it needs to render images from thumbnail to preview to zoomed size (or at least when it needs to do a few at a time); ah well, just need to buy more ram

It may be a RAM issue, but I doubt it. I have 4 GB. Slow on mine.

07-03-2010, 07:06 AM	#1
edk Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Australia Posts: 49	PS CS5 and LR3 Performance issues i recently upgraded to PS CS5 and Ligtroom 3. my pc spec is core 2 duo 4gb ram nVidia 8800GTS320Mb running Win7 64bit. its not rocket ship, but runs solid. CS4 and LR2.x ran very well without any perfomance or reliability issues. when I upgraded, i uninstalled first and ran clean installs for both apps. for the most part, there is no big difference in performance even when both are open at the same time. if i start browsing in LR3 though, it almost instantly uses 2Gb of Ram and doesn't let go of it until i either shut the app down, or leave it alone for about 5 minutes. it makes little difference if i use a catalogue with several thousand images or just a few hundred. has anyone else experienced this or found a work around? __________________ Members don't see ads in threads. Register your free account today and become a member on Tech Today Online, gaining access to posting privileges, contests, free plug-ins and other downloads, unlimited online storage for your photographs, reviews, free marketplace listings, and much more.

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07-03-2010, 07:57 AM	#2
JDtech Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 308 Blog Entries: 1	I think LR is the culprit. It has always been slow for me. Key is to locate the database on your fastest drive and optimize the database as soon as you can. Other than that, I don't know how you get fast performance from it--of course, my photo catalog is very large. Maybe it's fast with smaller ones.