I upgraded to a slightly-faster computer with 8G of RAM and it was like night and day. We’ll never go back to the halcyon days of Lightroom 1 (now *that* was fast), but it’s perfectly acceptable; you just need more memory. -T
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't understand why nobody has posted here about Lightroom 4 being > so dog-slow. > > I upgraded on the weekend, went through the process of familiarizing > myself with the new Develop sliders and became comfortable that its > functionally a Good Thing. > > But: good gawd almighty is it slow! Every time I attempt to shift a > slider I get a spinning pizza of death for many seconds. Sometimes I > get the SPoD by simply moving the cursor a short distance. It's so > damned frustrating, I'm starting to regret this "upgrade" and begin > finding out how I can go back to Lr 3.6. > > Of course I Googled and discovered that legions of people are > complaining about the very same thing. Dammit! > > Oh, then there's the issue where it warns me about incompatibilities > with Ps CS5 now. They upgraded Camera RAW to 7.0, conveniently leaving > CS5 at the final version of 6.7 with no hope of an upgrade. Nobody > warned me that upgrading Lr to 4 meant automatically upgrading Ps to > 6! Shit. > > Fairly pissed at Adobe right now. > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
