I wish it were so simple, Tim. Yes, I'm using an older machine: a 2008 iMac, 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo. But it has 6 Gig RAM, and I was running Lr with no other apps up (not even a browser), and I was watching the Activity monitor. There was plenty of RAM, the disks weren't all that busy, my catalog is on the local drive while the image files are on an external 2TB 800 MHz Firewire drive.
The other maddening thing is that one time I fired up Lr 4 it was quite perky. Sliders were smooth acting and responsive. But 3 of 4 times launching it, it's crazy sluggish. Almost nothing worse than inconsistency. On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Tim Bray <tb...@textuality.com> wrote: > 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. -- -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.
