Windows users who AREN'T having problems with Lightroom?

I know it's totally unscientific to poll this way, but I don't know of an

alternative.

 

Many or most of the early testers, reviewers, and tutors of Lightroom seem to

have been Mac users, and when I read threads about the usefulness of the

program, PC users sometimes say things like "It was written primarily for Macs,

and I had so many problems with it on my PC that until version 2.0 I'm not

going to try it again."

 

Is this a legitimate concern, or are there plenty of PC owners happily using

Lightroom?

 

Vista and XP users' experiences would both be helpful....

I had terrible problems on Windows XP with 1.0, but 1.1 is a lot better. And even the random hangs, crashes and wierdness of 1.0 wasn't sufficiently bad to drive me back to the alternatives.

Aside from some random slowness when rendering thumbnails, I've don't think I've ever had problems with any version of LR in Windows. I've run the Beta, 1.0 Release and 1.1 Release.

 

Running it under XP.

I've only experienced one problem with 1.1 under XP: When LR is the active window and I click on a taskbar icon to switch focus to another window, LR retains focus and will not allow me to switch unless I click a second time on the taskbar icon. Pretty trivial. I have over 4000 photos in my library.

I have 33,835 images, all RAW in Lightroom 1 up until two days ago when I finally had the time to upgrade to 1.1. Outside of needing as much memory as you can feed at it, I haven't had a problem. There are other programs I like better for editing the RAW files, Nikon Capture for one, I do like the importing and cataloging. But outside of WB correction and cropping, I do most of my corrections in Photoshop.

Works fine for me with WinXP SP2 and 1GB ram. I use 1.0 and 1.1.

(OP here)

 

Hmm. Very encouraging words so far.

 

Might I have been suffering a case of the "Why-are-there-so-many-bad-copies-of-x-lens?" syndrome, where the few who have problems air their complaints in these forums (thereby giving a nonrepresentative impression) while the satisfied users usually have no reason to post? Only Adobe knows for sure.

 

Again, I know this survey is unscientific, but it IS reassuring to know that numbers of PC users have few or no problems with LR.

Under XP I had no problems with 1.0 or 1.1. The only application that I've ever had any problem with is Nikon Scan.

XP on a desktop(since Feb.) or Vista on a notebook (since 2 weeks ago) no problems with either 1.0 or 1.1. Both machines are Athlon X2 processors, both 2 GB RAM.

No answers from Vista users. That is where I would be leary mostly.

1.1 (and 1.0) runs great on my XP box. If I run Photoshop, Nikon Scan, Lightroom and Capture NX at the same time I start getting swapping so I am buying a second gig of ram to ease it. But for regular use with digital camera files, LR flies. It has made me for the first time think that digital cameras actually are convenient.

no big problems in XP with 2GB. Slow to start up and scan a big new imported folder, feels slow to render full quality previews.

 

Had one bug in upgrading from 1.0 to 1.1, due to my non-standard archive location, leading to startup hang. Easily fixed once I googled the problem.

A few hangs w/1.0 on XP SP2 2GB RAM. No problems w/1.1. Never an issue switching between applications.

Running LR 1.1 just fine so far under Win XP SP2.

I used the 1.0 demo on my XP SP2, no problems.

Running fine on an A75 Toshiba laptop with a P4 chip and a little over 1 gig of RAM. That goes for the Beta versions, V1.0 and V1.1

 

I had some probolems with getting a decent print out of LR, but I finally got that worked out.

No problems to speak of with either 1.0 or 1.1 on a Dell Vista machine, Core2/4GB.

Vista user here, first of 1.0 and now 1.1.

 

No problems at all, though I've only got 6,800 images cataloged.

I had zero issues with Lightroom during the beta on my old P4 3.0 GHz (2GB RAM) and my laptop (1GB RAM).

 

When the P4 finally died (nothing like the smell of ozone after being woken up from a sound sleep at 2 in the morning) and I had an AMD FX-60 w/ 4GB RAM built locally, it was nothing but problems, 1.0 would hang and sometimes blue screen during any export over 30 pictures, 1.1 would crash whenever. At first we had problems with the other PC, an Athalon 3200+ w/ 2GB RAM built by the same people, but when I got the local guys to get rid of that junk memory it was smooth sailing. I couldn't say the same when they replaced the memory on the FX-60 as the system would still hang.

 

I built a Core2 Duo to replace the FX-60 and it's been running fine. All installs are with XP SP2 pro, no over-clocking, no warez or other funny software, I think the problems with the FX-60 had something to do with the fan screw I found lodged under the MB, but I haven't had a chance to rebuild it yet and really troubleshoot it with the local guys.

 

In my case it turned out to be some bad hardware. If I didn't do the beta, and see it work well on my old system, I probably would have dumped 1.0 and waited a couple of releases ( >= 1.1) before installing it again.

Never mind- I had a few crashes with LR 1.1 while rating pictures. It's annoying.

I am using LR 1.1 and windows XP and LR keeps crashing while giving star ratings to my pictures as well. I am considering purchasing LR 1.1 but not if I can't get it to work (very annoyed). I have a dual core 3Ghz Dell XPS 600 w/ 2GB RAM. Are there settings on my computer that will help LR run smoother? I have also had issues with Adobe premiere pro 2 crashing (video editing).