Geez, that's bad. I upgraded to LR4 about same time as going to Win7 64bit, so there wasn't much of a speed hump. More memory definitely helps, but a fast disk for the lightroom catalog zips things along too.
I know you are a heavy user of PS. What are the incompatibilities? I'm still on CS3, but then I only use it to scan in negs, do some dust spotting, and then I import into LR. Raw conversion I leave to LR.
Hope you can get back to some real studio work soon. On 29/05/2012 11:11 AM, Bruce Walker 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
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