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Clean Install of Windows XP Service Pack 3

Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz
4Gb DDR-2 800Mhz
nVidia 8800GTS 640Mb

Right. I have Lightroom 2.2, Photoshop CS4 and Windows Live Installed (well, itunes, winrar, etc.) and only lightroom and windows live messenger running.

While editing tonight, the computer just ... kept dying, well not so much the computer as lightroom. Strange things from crashing while exporting too the bit with the pictures going black and only showing small portions around the mouse.


This is a clean install, how is this possible? Does it just maybe not like the 5DMkII files.

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I have a similar setup with LR2.2 and the whole caboodle of Adobe CS4 plus, plus, plus. Only 3GB RAM but CPU is OCed to 3GHz.
No crashes so far from LR...

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Judging from some of the threads on the Adobe forum you are in good company.

Check out this thread where this is offered:

at the bottom of the File Handling tab sits a little box "Maximum Size" in the Camera Raw Cache Settings. It was set to 5.0 GB.
I reset it to 15.0 GB and just developed 200 or more images without a freeze or crash.

Any use?

Bob.

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awch i forgot to put the cache to 50GB like I done before .. so that might help haha.

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I hope so, though I'd have to say that if a small cache is the cause then Adobe deserves a huge slap on the wrist for shipping a program which crashes rather than offering a user friendly warning to increase the size of the cache. Let us know how you get on, please.

Bob.

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It helped ... for a bit haha!

I'm rocking 1:1 previews, the 1680 pixel image previews, and te highest image quality.

It was using over 1.4GB of ram before it crashed.

It only has 26 photos in the library.

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Try running a memory diagnostic on your machine. It could be that you machine has developed some faulty memory and this is causing your Adobe programs to crash.

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Nope, nice brand new ram, fully checked, all fine.

Hard drive is perfect too, no bad sectors.

And it only crashes with Lightroom.

I am enabling dual screen mode, working with a constant 1:1 on one, and with the develop panel on the other.

When moving sliders it seems a bit sluggish, and you have to "wait" for the slider to stop moving, before moving on to another one or it keeps following your mouse movements. (pain!)

I'll try convince my uncle to swap me with his quad core so i can see if it helps any, or try overclocking mine again (it was set to stock since i was re-installing XP)

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On one screen, still crashing.

Now trying to export telling me there is not enough memoy...

I still have over 1.5GB of real memory left, and another 2Gb of virtual on top of that.

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I just wanted to comment on the reliability of Microsoft Updates. After installing several "security fixes" on my laptop to my Windows Vista Home Premium 32x SP1, my CS4 Master Collection wouldn't install and continuously crash when installing camera raw. The same symptoms occur when installing Lightroom 2.2. I reverted my system back to before my updates and Lightroom installed fine. CS4 didn't.
The truth of the matter is that Microsoft "upgrades" your computer with a considerable amount of bloatware. While some may be useful, a substantial amount is not. Now when I start my system, I get greeted by the Security Center popup saying "Automatic Upgrades are Turned Off"
Installing Adobe products can be very circumstantial. Works once, not the next time, vice versa.

apparently its a known problem with 2.2...especially the memory leak and crashing.

I'm gonna update to 2.3 RC on the main computer, here's hoping it will fix it


also anyone notice 2.2 the localized brush tool "edit" tab is disabled?

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I think it might be your nvidia card. I had a lot of trouble with my 8800GT and Lightroom. Now I use an ATI 3650 and zero issues.
If you have a spare video card laying around, try it out, especially try and ATI card. Nvidia (not quadro) are not good at 2D performance.
Sorry to hear about your troubles, I know the frustration.

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did you get your copy of LR2 ftom pirate bay ? lol

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Priate bay is just to slow, to many leachers

I've got a shop full of cards, all NVIDIA

I'm not going near an ATI card haha, their drivers are useless.

8800GT and the GTS are built on slightly different chips, the G80 and G92, plus the GT is build on 55nm not 65nm process.

So yeah different chips although closely related

I think if it was a problem with Nvidia hardware, it would be a simple fix.




ANYWAY



I Upgraded to 2.3RC on my computer, works fine, it crashed after about 2-3 hours, i can live with that, anything is better than 2-3 minutes!

On the Local Editing brush the "edit" bit where you can go back and delete or change individual localized edits...is greyed out! It was like this in 2.2 and i thought it was really strange.

Any ideas on that one?

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I've never had a problem with LR 2.2. Almost all my usage has been on my iMac and MacBook though using the 64-bit version.

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