[Leica] How to make Lightroom Classic run faster on your Windows PC

[Frank Filippone]

I am not understanding the question... but if it is.. how to make your 
gaming computer go faster, I am not a gamer.  But the concepts are the same.

If you are asking if you can buy a gaming computer to use for LRc, 
YES,,,, the best overall non-specific choice.

I use Classic LR... which is resident on my computer, and thus has no 
need for a connection to the internet.  LR does.... it is a cloud based 
application.

Updates are done at night... if it takes 1 hour or 1/2 of an hour, my 
snoring does not suffer.

Frank Filippone
BMWRed735i at gmail.com

On 7/9/2025 2:50 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> Any thoughts about dedicated gaming computers?  With the increased AI in
> Adobe products a fast internet helps.
>
> Don
> don.dory at gmail.com
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2025, 12:10 PM Frank Filippone via LUG<lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
>> This is a help article....
>>
>> My Desktop system is running fine but it is 9 Years old..... My laptop
>> is 10 years old...
>>
>> I decided to try out a new Laptop, about 2 model years old....
>>
>> I wondered if they were getting too long in the tooth.... so I made some
>> measurements....
>>
>> I used a set of 5 images that needed to be stitched.  They were put on a
>> thumb drive, a new catalog was created, LR was updated to the most
>> recent updates.
>>
>> The results showed that my 9 year old desktop computer was almost
>> exactly TWICE AS SLOW as the new laptop.  I know that my older Laptop is
>> even slower....it is an I5 processor.
>>
>> To be fair, I am retired, an amateur photographer, which all means that
>> time is NOT money.....slow and cheap makes more sense.
>>
>> Then again, how slow is too slow?
>>
>> So I started to look at new hardware...... and read a lot of
>> articles..... and consulted a lot of AI produced evaluations, all of
>> which led to these conclusions.....
>>
>> No matter what your computer's age, do this to make it go faster....
>>
>> MORE RAM!!! RAM is cheap.   If your computer can upgrade to 32gb or 48
>> or 64, do it..... Just fill it up.
>>
>> Have your LR Catalog on a SSD inside your computer.  This is a major
>> speed improvement. The SSD should NOT be a slower SATA version .
>>
>> It is fastest to keep your images on internal SSD as well, but depending
>> on how many images you have, this may be impractical.
>>
>> NAS  is fast but complex to keep running.  Slower is an external USB SSD
>> drive, and slower yet is a moving disk USB HDD.
>>
>> If you are buying a new computer, get an I7 processor (cores matter with
>> some operations in LR).....  More cores = Better....
>>
>> I9 is more cores and $$$ but reports are that they are not that much
>> faster.  Stay away form the I5 or I3 processors.
>>
>> LR uses more cores when it is making previews or exporting
>> images.....For single (common) image edits, not at all.
>>
>> You should select a graphics card with at least 6GB of video ram.
>> NVIDIA is apparently more stable than AMD. The Intel graphics solutions
>> are workable but if you want to run faster, get the discrete graphics
>> card solution.
>>
>>
>> If you wish help, ask me.....
>>
>> -- Frank FilipponeBMWRed735i at gmail.com
>>
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