I ask this on behalf of the community. When will adobe fix the overall DOG SLOWNESS

lightroom is a dream on laptops because the screens are small.  it becomes a dog on bigger screens because they cannot figure out a decent way to render to larger screens.  My macbook pro with 16mb ram 512gb ssd and dedicated video card runs rings around my iMac with 4gig video card, 1tb SSD, 64gb RAM, and the fastest i7 available to iMac

I have three FHD screens to get a wide workspace. The horizontal resolution is effectively 5760 and the vertical is 1080, which gives me sort of a 3K screen. I stretch the LR workspace across all 3 screens: not completely because I want space on the edges to see a slice of other programs I am running alongside LR (PS, InDesign, Excel...). Certainly the mechanics of rendering a 4K 3840x2160 screen are different than my 5760x1080 setup, but still, I don't run just a laptop FHD screen. Possibly I should count my blessings: I've been looking at a 4K screen to replace my 3-screen setup. Maybe I should stay where I am.

I refer the honorable gentleman to the statements I made a few days ago (mostly for Mac users, but Windows isn't immune to these issues).

I carefully read your statement and could not find any helpfull advise for my problems. Maybe you can be more precise and tell me what such tools should do to my os?

edit: btw i am on win10....

Sorry, I'm a Mac Tech. Hire a Windows guy to come over for a consult.

ok, so the 30mp images would be a significant difference from my setup. I have 16 and 20mp cameras. But I do run three FHD screens, so my system is working a bit harder than a single FHD.

still, my hard-fast rules are:
-- press F11 only if it is absolutely necessary, and close the window as soon as possible
-- optimize the catalog every hour
-- quit and come back in periodically

and, I keep the performance monitor visible so I can watch what's going on. It helps a lot to see what the CPUs and drives are doing when things slow down. When all 8 CPUs are close to max and all SSDs are close to max, it saves a lot of heartache to simply let the backlog flush out.

my point by raising this issue is this:  We should not need to jump around doing all of these things to utilise the program.  The engineers need to go back to the drawing board and come up with a viable solution.  Instead of doing this they are riding off the fact that they are getting their monthly subscription paid and don't really need to rush to do anything.

Now that i understand Stefan is using Windows.  Stefan, i will tell you this:  I am an MCSE.  I was a windows server engineer for 13 years.  I realised mid last year that no matter what Windows OS or configuration used, Lightroom simply performed terribly.  When running tests my Macbook Pro ran rings around a 12-core xeon chip with 128gb ram and 500gb SSD and 6gb quadro video card.

Adobe should admit that it's software is not, and has never been designed to perform on the Windows based OS.  Hence why i switched to Mac.  But still even though Mac is better than any Windows platform i ever tested (i tested at least 10 different setups over the past year), Mac is still bugged by slow performance even with the best technology.

Adobe need to wake up to the overall dog slowness.  They really do.  Something needs to give!

Carlos, I'm also a big fan of Disk Warrior but I'm afraid in this case you have either failed to grasp the situation or you're just being glib. The issues that many of us battle with every day in our work in Lightroom are simply not a result of directory issues. Rebuild your directories until kingdom come and LR will still perform slowly, it will still reject a fair percentage of perfectly healthy GPUs, it will still use only some of the CPU cores and it will still simply fail to perform batch tasks for no obvious reason. And it still won't apply presets if it's in the background. And Photoshop will still insist on forcing it's way into the foreground to complete tasks that should be done in the background.

Yep, 21 years of experience supporting Macs leads to glib! You got me there Shane! No good deed goes on punished huh? I'm not saying LR is perfect, just trying to point out another (obvious) reason why LR might be slow, instead of automatically blaming adobe for everything, like some here do. Have you tried Onyx, or a nuke&pave?

Carlos,

the thing is...i think no one here is "automatically" blaming adobe....to be honest i am pretty much offended by that statement of yours...because i am a guy who tries first everything in his own power.. i am in search for a solution for a few years now...its just getting worse not better....so please...your statement feels almost arrogant. Ok you have been an mac it guy for 21 years now...but dont think others here cannot have the same experience, the same knowledge and so on...

just imagine if you, you personally, have tried everything you can think of for years now, you went through every detail, almost every tip, hint you can find out there and someone suggests something trivial like cleanup tools...and suggests these tools in 90% of the posts he does.....or blames your own system....man...it would not help you in any way...because you know its not that...i hope you understand my point...

so please dont be so absolute in the opinion that if it works for you, it works for everyone...google it...hundrets of results just related to LR performance...look at the multicore performance crap, it doesnt even scale...gpu support works sometimes...sometimes not...hundrets of threads...

and in the end....why do the users have to care so much about optimization, tweaks, preferences....it is part of a good programm that it runs without troubles in the first place... like mike said....we should not even have to bother!!!!

and the worst thing, you play that issue down by suggesting something you think is the solution over and over again....but its not a solution!!!

all we want is that adobe acknowledges the problem and give some feedback for the future...or maybe (but i dont think there is one with this code) a solution to some of the problems...

no hard feelings, really, i just want people to take that issue seriously.

I never said "it's a solution", or "you must be wrong", so please don't put words in my mouth. I just suggest that, people who haven't tried my suggestions should try them. You obviously have, so they don't apply to you. And yeah, some here ARE obviously automatically blaming Adobe (and I'm not saying Adobe is blameless either). Believe me, in IT we've been fighting their crap authentication servers for years (where you delete the account, recreate it, third times the charm)!

I dont want to put anything in your mouth...sorry...so we should not talk about those imperfections of speech (since i am not even a native speaker)...everyone can read what you and i wrote...

to say adobe is not blameless either is a bold statement..suggesting the other party(the user, windows) is guilty...

and there i have to disargree...if someone buys hardware which is top notch, has a fresh system and it does not work....its freaking adobes fault....fullstop.

ok because there is a huge variety of hardware configurations it can be that sometimes there are issues...but he...its not sometimes....its all over the place...and its not fixable without adobe...

so" adobe its not blameless either"....no...its their freaking fault that there programm does not work on reasonable NEW machines...

i was hoping that processing power of my i7 at 4,8ghz is not enough and i can fix this by buying new hardware (i allready thought that with my ssd's so now i have 3 of them and still as bad)....

ryzen came out... --> https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Lightroom-CC-2015-8-AMD-Ryzen-7-1700X-1800X-Perform...

i mean....WTF.....