create Ramdisk or uprgrade Ram to run Lightroom

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foo

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Would it be better to a, create a Ramdisk say 4gb or increase my Ram from 4gb to 16gb in order to run Lightroom 5 quicker.
I have CORE i3 with sodimm chip 4 gb 1600 mhz , 2.4 ghz clock .Running 64 bit windows 8.1
So would increasing Ram and then makig a Ramdisk help or just increase the Ram modules'
Any help would be appreciated thank you.
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

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This one's easy. Upgrade your system memory. Personally, I wouldn't want to run Windows, most any version, on 4GB of RAM; but 16GB should set you up pretty well overall. That'll be a pretty spiffy little upgrade to be sure.

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foo

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Thanks had not much choice to be honest old laptop died needed new one asap , so an increase Ram will only cost me £9o , use my tv for a monitor via hdmi as its fully hd and 46 " helps too.

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Fred Kingston_RIP

Fred Kingston_RIP

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Ram... if you don't have enough ram, that OS swaps to disk... which is why it's slow, which is in effect, a system built ramdisk... Nobody's used a ramdisk on a Windows platform in 20 years... :)
 
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foo

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I know just thought it may help , not sure why its running slow running Lightroom 5.4 ,but just thought be quicker at installing photos and editing and saving changes .


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foo

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Maybe because Im importing Raw files , so they are bigger than jpegs .

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Fred Kingston_RIP

Fred Kingston_RIP

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LR doesn't do anything except "read" a NEF file... It doesn't save changes to the NEF file. It saves them to the catalogue... Take a look at your catalogue... How many pictures are in the catalogue??? If you have a brazzillion images in the catalogue... maybe the catalogue size is the problem?

Yes... it takes longer to import a NEF file versus a JPEG for two reasons... The NEF is certainly 'larger'... and LR then has to render a JPEG for the viewer...
 
Vixen

Vixen

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I'm guessing that windows 8 probably needs a minimum 4g of RAM just to run itself without any other software you may add. Upgrade your RAM, you won't regret it :D

I recently upgraded from 2g Ram to 16g on my mum's old windows 7 system. I use it purely for pp'ing photos. Before the upgrade it was taking about 60min to pp each image. No worries now :D
 
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Geoffc

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One of our PCs was running lightroom and Photoshop slowly recently and it couldn't take more than 4gb of RAM. The solution was a solid state drive. This has made a big difference.


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foo

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Correct windows 8 needs a minimum of 4 gb , my photos are kept on a seperate sata hard drive , and uploaded when I need them .
So thats my next mission get 16gb ram upgrade.
Thanks everyone.

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