If you prefer to do your digital photography work on your desktop, you must be familiar with Adobe Lightroom Classic. While the normal edition is a cloud-based application, the classic version is an offline desktop-based solution.
Compared to the cloud version, Lightroom Classic offers more features and controls. That said, the software recently received the v11.4 update.
But many Adobe Lightroom Classic users who updated to the latest version are complaining about slow export time (1,2).
It looks like the problem is affecting both the Mac and Windows versions of Lightroom Classic and is negatively affecting user productivity.
Here are some reports from Lightroom Classic users who are tired of slow export time after the v11.4 update.
Seems like Lightroom Classic is not fully utilizing the GPU for some, thus making it slow when exporting files. While Adobe is yet to acknowledge the problem, a workaround seems to help those affected.
It requires users to find the Camera RAW GPU Config file and modify the ‘crs:gpu_compute_quick_self_test_passed=”false”/>’ to ‘crs:gpu_compute_quick_self_test_passed=”true”/>’.
After doing this, launch Lightroom Classic and you will be able to turn on “Use GPU for Export” and “Use GPU for image processing” options. Doing this will let Lightroom Classic fully utilize the GPU.
And as if this wasn’t troubling enough, Lightroom Classic are experiencing another issue where RAW files are no longer displayed correctly and show up as gray images in the Develop Module.
Luckily, there are some workarounds that might help resolve the problem. The first one involves updating the graphic drivers to the latest version from your GPU manufacturer’s website.
The second workaround is from an Adobe employee and requires users to head over the Edit menu, go to Preferences, open the Performance section and disable GPU. Afterward, restart Lightroom Classic and the gray image issue should be fixed.
We hope Adobe soon takes a look at the matter and releases an update that fixes both issues. As always, we will be letting you know when the problem is resolved so keep checking PiunikaWeb.
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