Adobe Bridge loading 100% previews of RAW files very SLOW

Hi,

I have problem with slow loading of the 100% previews of RAWs (D850 NEF, +-50MB each) while browsing photos in latest and fully updated Adobe Bridge CC. Slow means it takes 3-6s for each picture where I zoom in to 100% and that's a lot when there are thousands of pictures to sort. Without zooming to 100% it's impossible to reliably check the sharpness of 45mpix photos.

This wasn't much of a problem with 25mpix where loading was almost instant, but with the D850 RAWs it takes significant amount of time.

I tried all the performance improvement advice for Bridge, it's on i7 PC Win10 and it's almost irrelevant of HDD/SSD I use. Loading photos from M2 Samsung 960 did not solve it.

I wrote detailed post to Adobe forums about it, but got no solution, here's link


Last idea I got is whether really the Intel i7-7700K is the bottleneck as all cores run fully during loading of 100% preview.

Any advice please?

Could the new 8cores i9s be the solution?

Aleks7 said:

Hi,

I have problem with slow loading of the 100% previews of RAWs (D850 NEF, +-50MB each) while browsing photos in latest and fully updated Adobe Bridge CC. Slow means it takes 3-6s for each picture where I zoom in to 100% and that's a lot when there are thousands of pictures to sort. Without zooming to 100% it's impossible to reliably check the sharpness of 45mpix photos.

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Hi Aleks7,

I read your Adobe post from July, and see you're still suffering the same issue.

Anyway, I'm not exactly sure what's going on but I shoot uncompressed RAW files (73meg files) from a D800E (36.3mpix) and previewing them in Adobe Bridge is fairly fast. Yes, I know it's not the 45.7mpix your camera is, but still.

I'm also running an i7-7700K, 512gig Samsung M.2 950 Pro SSD drive, 32gig of RAM, and an AMD R9-Fury GPU and Windows 10 Pro x64 and things seem rather quick there.

Anyway if you could post the exact steps you're taking to preview your Images, I'll see if I can replicate on my end. When you open Bridge, from there what are you doing.

Aleks7 said:

This wasn't much of a problem with 25mpix where loading was almost instant, but with the D850 RAWs it takes significant amount of time.

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For clarity, what size files are you producing?

Aleks7 said:

Last idea I got is whether really the Intel i7-7700K is the bottleneck as all cores run fully during loading of 100% preview.

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I doubt the 7700K is the issue

All that said, you might try posting your question in the Nikon FX SLR (DF, D1-D5, D600-D850) Talk forums for better help. You could also try the Retouching forums, but I'd try the D850 forum first.

Let us know.

Thank you for comment, only recently I found solution to a problem: in Bridge CC 2019 I use the "Create monitor size previews" (I never noticed this in older Bridges), that overcomes the need to magnify to 100% because the preview already is sharp (in contrast to downsized 100% preview).

Loading of the 100% lossless compressed high res RAWs is as slow as before, but I don't need it so often when browsing photos with monitor size previews