lightroom 5 upgrade: Hi All I have a PC with Windows 7 and 8g of memory and thinking of upgrading to Lightroom 5. I have heard some muttering online that Windows 7 is not a good match...

REJ Loc: Ontario Canada

Hi All
I have a PC with Windows 7 and 8g of memory and thinking of upgrading to Lightroom 5. I have heard some muttering online that Windows 7 is not a good match for Lightroom 5. What Say you. TK's in advance. REJ

Crichmond Loc: Loveland, CO

REJ wrote:

Hi All
I have a PC with Windows 7 and 8g of memory and thinking of upgrading to Lightroom 5. I have heard some muttering online that Windows 7 is not a good match for Lightroom 5. What Say you. TK's in advance. REJ

Hi REJ!

I have Lightroom 5 loaded on both my PC and Laptop. Both are running Win 7. I have had Zero problems running LR5. I would think that 8g of memory would be fine, but I am also of the philosophy that the more memory the better.

Hope this helps!

Samuraiz Loc: Central Florida

I run Lightroom 5 with Windows 7 with zero problems.

MtnMan Loc: ID

REJ wrote:

Hi All
I have a PC with Windows 7 and 8g of memory and thinking of upgrading to Lightroom 5. I have heard some muttering online that Windows 7 is not a good match for Lightroom 5. What Say you. TK's in advance. REJ

I'd appreciate hearing what folks say on this also.

Would it be OK to ask if you'd also say what changes you think matter compared to 4? The radial filter looks pretty cool but I'm not sure justifies $90 for the upgrade.

Gobuster Loc: South Florida

REJ wrote:

Hi All
I have a PC with Windows 7 and 8g of memory and thinking of upgrading to Lightroom 5. I have heard some muttering online that Windows 7 is not a good match for Lightroom 5. What Say you. TK's in advance. REJ

I think what you heard is incorrect, LR 5 works perfectly in Windows 7; been using it for about 2 months with zero problems.

Erik_H Loc: Denham Springs, Louisiana

MtnMan wrote:

I'd appreciate hearing what folks say on this also.

Would it be OK to ask if you'd also say what changes you think matter compared to 4? The radial filter looks pretty cool but I'm not sure justifies $90 for the upgrade.

In addition to the radial filter, the improved clone/healing tool and the visualize spots feature are quite handy. I also have a Windows 7 machine with 8 gb ram, and I find that it actually runs a tad better than ver. 4.2

MtnMan Loc: ID

Xtreme66 wrote:

In addition to the radial filter, the improved clone/healing tool and the visualize spots feature are quite handy. I also have a Windows 7 machine with 8 gb ram, and I find that it actually runs a tad better than ver. 4.2

Thanks!

I have a Windows 7 with I5 turbo processor and 6MB memory and 4.2 runs quite fast on it.

Crichmond Loc: Loveland, CO

MtnMan wrote:

I'd appreciate hearing what folks say on this also.

Would it be OK to ask if you'd also say what changes you think matter compared to 4? The radial filter looks pretty cool but I'm not sure justifies $90 for the upgrade.

Hi!

I can't comment on LR4 because I upgraded from LR3.? to LR5.

I believe the cost was $75 at the time.

boblwest45

REJ wrote:

Hi All
I have a PC with Windows 7 and 8g of memory and thinking of upgrading to Lightroom 5. I have heard some muttering online that Windows 7 is not a good match for Lightroom 5. What Say you. TK's in advance. REJ

I have just upgraded from Lightroom 4, am running Windows 7 on a PC and a laptop. The PC has 16G and the laptop has 6G of RAM. I ran the beta for 2 months B4 upgrading. Purchased a boxed version from Amazon for $79 with no tax or shipping charges. B&H Photo has the same deal.

I can say V5 is worth the price of admission for the new features and I have noticed that it is faster than 4 was. If you can feel a speed boost I believe the speed increase is more than just a few percent.

My vote is to go for the upgrade.

MtnMan Loc: ID

It is on its way...

Festus Loc: North Dakota

REJ wrote:

Hi All
I have a PC with Windows 7 and 8g of memory and thinking of upgrading to Lightroom 5. I have heard some muttering online that Windows 7 is not a good match for Lightroom 5. What Say you. TK's in advance. REJ

Zero problems with Windows 7. I have not heard a word. What are the reported problems?

Edmund Dworakowski

Festus wrote:

Zero problems with Windows 7. I have not heard a word. What are the reported problems?

I recently upgraded to LR5 and had to change from Windows Vista to Windows7 in the process. Everything works fine.

doduce Loc: Holly Springs NC

Crichmond wrote:

Hi REJ!

I have Lightroom 5 loaded on both my PC and Laptop. Both are running Win 7. I have had Zero problems running LR5. I would think that 8g of memory would be fine, but I am also of the philosophy that the more memory the better.

Hope this helps!

What he said. :-)

REJ Loc: Ontario Canada

Festus wrote:

Zero problems with Windows 7. I have not heard a word. What are the reported problems?

I can't recall exactly, It was along the lines of, Lightroom 5 was a memory hog and you needed Windows 7/64 to be able to use the full 16 gb of memory. this was back when LR 5 was Beta only. REJ

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

REJ wrote:

Hi All
I have a PC with Windows 7 and 8g of memory and thinking of upgrading to Lightroom 5. I have heard some muttering online that Windows 7 is not a good match for Lightroom 5. What Say you. TK's in advance. REJ

I don't see what the problems could be that you are afraid of. Running Lightroom 5 and 5 other media programs with 7 on my PC never any problems.