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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: D Fuller on December 23, 2020, 06:04:12 pm

Title: Newest Lightroom freezes MacPro 2013
Post by: D Fuller on December 23, 2020, 06:04:12 pm

I have a 2013 fully specced MacPro (12-core processor, 2 x FirePro D700 GPU with 6GB VRAM each, 64 GB RAM). I'm running Mojave--the most recent update. If I have GPU acceleration turned on, Lightroom freezes my system so tightly that I have to hard reset. I can't even get it to force quit. Has anyone else had issues of this sort with Lightroom?

It's been suggested to me by an Adobe tech that I update to Big Sur as a cure. I'm not enthusiastic about that, because it's been reported to be less stable than I'd like it to be for a work machine, and because I don't like the IOS interface ideas much. Have any of you got experience with Adobe CC software and C1 under Big Sur? Any issues?

Title: Re: Newest Lightroom freezes MacPro 2013
Post by: digitaldog on December 23, 2020, 06:27:51 pm

Try this: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html
I've no issues on Big Sur.

Title: Re: Newest Lightroom freezes MacPro 2013
Post by: D Fuller on December 23, 2020, 08:19:09 pm

Quote from: digitaldog on December 23, 2020, 06:27:51 pm

Try this: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html
I've no issues on Big Sur.

Thank you for the vote of confidence in Big Sur.

I solved the immediate problem (with an Adobe tech's help) by disabling GPU acceleration for Lightroom. There's a two-month thread on the Adobe help forum about problems with custom profiles--anything other than sRGB or Adobe GRB being a source of the problem. I'm running a profiled Eizo monitor, so that may be part of the problem, I haven't tested yet. If so, that's a pretty big problem for a program that's intended for professoinal use.