Hi, Gary and Kris --
> Kris, one test is to watch your HD access light. If
the light/LED is
flickering a lot when you are working in Lightroom/Photoshop
etc ...
>then Max is probably right - Vista is consuming too much
RAM and you need to downgrade
to XP or similar.
It may not be simply RAM. I have several disparate systems
under test using VISTA for customer support purposes. A
little web
research will show that VISTA is eating up 25-30% of your
processor (by ZD Labs). One of my test systems is a top end
Dell 1710 XPS
gaming laptop. It is essentially useless when I boot to its
VISTA drive. If I restore an XP image onto the small disk
(a 100GB
7200) it screams under everything I have tested including
Lightroom. More than 25-30% difference.
If you are stuck using VISTA, shut off UAC and AERO
immediately. That will help a lot.
Next, if you are working with more that 200k+ full sized
images, you may want to manage the big photo database with
something like
Thumbs+ (cerious.com). I keep my main photo database under
Thumbs+ on separate 10K 160GB Raptors (the file-by-file
backups are on
internal 7200 drives), with the actual photo
shoots/collections under 5k images on a fast (10k or faster)
internal disk imported
under Lightroom.
Lightroom and full sized images do tangibily benefit from
the faster drives. I have done real testing myself with my
old hobby Dell
XPS G3 (4GB RAM, 2.4 TB internal, 8+TB external eSata) and
it makes a big difference. FWIW, I boot to both VISTA
and/or XP Pro via
my system disks (10k 74GB Raptors) which are external on
eSata connections. This way both operating systems are
fully independent.
I just unplug one and boot, then switch the cable and boot
to the other for all tests. The eSata drives perform as
fast as the
internal sata 10k drives.
Max L. Eidswick, Red Paw Systems, Inc.
1 (866) RED-PAWZ (1-866-733-7299) extension 256
www.RedPawz.com or Shop.RedPawz.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: photoblogs googlegroups.com [mailto:photoblogsgooglegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Beilby
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:00 AM
To: photoblogsgooglegroups.com
Subject: [photoblogs-discuss] Re: Lightroom slow
Different situation, but similar...
I am running XP and use CS2 with ACDsee Pro as my library.
Everything runs
quite respectably, with exception of displaying Canon RAW
(.CR2) files.
They can take anything up to 5secs to display - which is a
fairly maddening
wait after a while. If I give the current image a few secs
to sit there the
next one is pre-cached giving a near instant display, but if
I get ahead of
it the tiniest bit (which isn't hard) I am rewarded with a
black screen of
at least 5 secs. Hardware is an 18 month old Athlon with
2gig RAM.
I have heard IrfanView has quicker RAW viewing, but I bought
ACDsee, and I
quite like it apart from the speed issue. If I am working
in jpeg it is all
very speedy.
Kris, one test is to watch your HD access light. If the
light/LED is
flickering a lot when you are working in Lightroom/Photoshop
etc then Max is
probably right - Vista is consuming too much RAM and you
need to downgrade
to XP or similar.
Gary
http://dabsters.net
-----Original Message-----
From: rosie [mailto:rosieeidswick.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 9:46 PM
To: photoblogsgooglegroups.com
Subject: [photoblogs-discuss] Re: Lightroom slow
> I'm using Lightroom and i'm very enthousiastic about
the features and
possibilities, however, the performance is terrible on my
system.
I've got a Core Duo laptop with 2GB of Ram running Vista).
>What can i do?
Simple. Get rid of VISTA.
Problem solved.
Max
Max L. Eidswick, Red Paw Systems, Inc.
1 (866) RED-PAWZ (1-866-733-7299) extension 256
www.RedPawz.com or
Shop.RedPawz.com
-----Original Message-----
From: photoblogsgooglegroups.com [mailto:photoblogsgooglegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Kris
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:25 AM
To: Photoblogs
Subject: [photoblogs-discuss] Lightroom slow
Hi,
I know this isn't directly photoblog related, but
nonetheless, i think there
are a lot of Lightroom users here. 
I'm using Lightroom and i'm very enthousiastic about the
features and
possibilities, however, the performance is terrible on my
system.
I've got a Core Duo laptop with 2GB of Ram running Vista).
I open
Lightroom and Photoshop CS2 together (in the background,
Outlook and IE are
running). It seems as if 2GB is not enough in this
situation?
Is that possible? My laptop is limited to 2GB, so if i
can't get Lightroom
to run faster with some tweaking, i've got a problem!
What's slow? When i click on a photo, the
"Loading" part takes a long time.
When i right-click an image and choose "Edit in
Photoshop" i have to be very
patient, switching between modules, etc, etc...
What can i do?
Thanks!
Kris
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