Very fast machine.. But Sticky Develop Module..

[silencethevoice]

I am running Lightroom 2.1rc (have also used 2.').. And am having issues with the sliders in the develop module being sticky and unresponsive.. Mainly the clarity and sharpening sliders, but a few others seem to get unwieldy at times also.

My machine is a Mac Pro 8 cores @ 3.'ghz, with 12GB of RAM, 4 x 75' GB drives, running Leopard 1'.5.5.. My lightroom library is on a separate internal drive, my applications and catalog drive are on a very fast internal drive (Spinpoint F1).. By all means this thing should fly through adjustments, but it doesn't..

Adobe Photoshop 4, Bridge 4, and Camera Raw all run extremely well, and using all controls in Camera Raw seem to work awesome...

I am really thinking of selling Lightroom and just using Bridge and Photoshop, because I am not processing 1,'''s of images, but at most usually 7''-8'' at a time..

Does anyone have any suggestions to speed this thing up?

Thanks in advance..

 

[deBult]

Any chance you are using an NVIDA card: try and find the tread on the graphic card settings

 

[silencethevoice]

Thanks for the response.. I think that thread only applies to the PC side, I am on a Mac..

 

[Denis Pagé]

...I am on a Mac..

So, can you please put those informations in you signature like the others in this forum? This will help us help you.

See "User CP" top left of the forums (blue line).

And WELCOME to the forums!

 

[billg71]

Turn off auto masking on the brush tool.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Hi silencethevoice, welcome to the forum!

I've got a similar spec, and I'm not noticing any major stickyness, but I rarely use the sliders themselves. Just try floating your mouse over the slider and using the up/down keys, and see how that works for you. Other, slightly unrelated, tip - try creating a RAMdisk using a gb or 2 or your RAM, and set LR's cache to that drive. I've noticed major changes there. And set LR to 64-bit if you haven't already.

 

[chrishowe]

Develop module very slow or dead

On my big PC (and now on LR 2.') (see below - now with temporary NVIDIA 86'' as previous 96'' blew up) - once I start using the brushes it slows down to zero - and If I then look at Task manager/performance - just moving the mouse pointer across the screen uses 9'% of the CPU on the graph for both!!! But doing the same on my new Sony Vaio laptop (VGN-Z11VN), with NVIDIA 96'', 4Gb Ram, 2.5GHx dual processor etc - causes no problems at all. Seems crazy that I am doing better on my little laptop than on big PC with 3'" Apple Cinema. I am now waiting for an adaptor to drive ACD from laptop.

I have tried the suggestions about the NVIDIA set-up in other parts of this thread. Any thoughts?

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Chris, run the 2.1 update - that's solved many of the performance problems. And if that doesn't do the trick, then we'll think again.

 

[chrishowe]

Thanks Victoria - but - I have been trying to run that update for 4 days now, and keep getting "site area temporarily unavailable" - very frustrating - managed to update laptop this morning, now back from dayjob and same "unavailable" when trying to update desktop !!!

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Eugh, very frustrating Chris. Do you still have the download on your laptop? You could transfer it to the desktop.

 

[I Simonius]

I am running Lightroom 2.1rc (have also used 2.').. And am having issues with the sliders in the develop module being sticky and unresponsive.. Mainly the clarity and sharpening sliders, but a few others seem to get unwieldy at times also.

that's exactly what I mean by mine being so slow, they don't seem to do anything then having assumed theyre not responding I do something again then it will do both at the asme time