Thread: Lightroom 4 slow slow slow - very disappointed [Updated 6 june 2012]

Works fine on my MacBook Air, I switched from Aperture which was starting to be sluggish, most notably when straightening a picture...

again, LR4 seems fine.

Hmmm... conflicting reports. Smells like a bug to me.

It's version 4.0 - I bet that version 4.1 will run more quickly.

Running it on my more than 2 year old 4GB Sony Laptop. Can't say I've noticed any difference one way or the other.

I'm running a 3GHz quad AMD with 8GB of RAM and it is slower but not enough to think about not using it. I too am hoping 4.1 will address the issue.

Originally Posted by Amin Sabet

Yn, people who buy Core i7 processors are probably more sensitive to performance
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Perhaps, Amin ... but when I move a denoise slider and the whole machine slows and the processor fan comes on full-blast, or it takes 2 or 3 seconds for an zoomed image to draw (and yes, I do have my 1:1 previews built) ... well, not good, as I've said ... it is consistently amazing to me that companies the size of Adobe, who charge significant amounts of cash for their product, still manage to produce dogs like this ... and I speak as someone who spent a slab of his life having sign-off for software

I run LR4 beta on my Core 2 duo 1.3ghz (not a typo) / 4GB RAM laptop. Startup is slow, slower than LR3, but after that I don't find much performance difference with LR3 in normal use. It's not quick, but adequate for my needs, I rarely have to wait more than a second for any adjustment to be processed (contrary to Color Efex where it can take a while). Now it's a very very clean and optimized computer which probably has a lot to do with it (I work as a computer programmer and do 100% of my pro work on this machine, generally connected to an external monitor and wireless keyboard/mouse). I imagine I'm not very sensitive to performance

I wasn't really interested in LR4 but the cheaper than anticipated upgrade price has me interested, maybe I'll wait for a little while to see how things work themselves out.

Being somewhat of a noob with Lightroom I just learnt to create separate catalogs which greatly increased the speed of the program, having all 100gb of photos in one catalog became a real problem but now I've split them up and the program runs much more smoothly.

Has transfering the catalogs and setting over to LR4 been an issue, i've heard that there are a few problems and you may loose a few changes.

Be interesting to know if those people not experiencing significant problems are running the 32- or 64-bit version?
(I'm on 64-bit)

32-bit here (but as stated previously, running slowly on my netbook).