Skylum Software Questions (Page 2): I have used the last several versions of Luminar and had absolutely no problems. Love it.

dino21 Loc: McAllen, TX

I have used the last several versions of Luminar and had absolutely no problems. Love it.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

cameraf4 wrote:

Like others I have Luminar and Aurora HDR and have... (show quote)

Sounds like you are out of hard drive space and/or memory or both...... When your HD has less then 10% free, your machine will do this.....

sagfgrump

cameraf4 wrote:

That could be a problem, I know. But my point is that I have not had issues with LR, Photoshop, Capture, or PhotoLab with any of my D850 images. They load, they export/save without difficulty. Only the Skylum software seems to bog the PC (admittedly an older one) down and I was wondering if any other Hogs have seen this.

I find Luminar 3 slower than my other raw to jpeg conversion software (photo ninja), also using an oldish computer and windows 10. I added an extra 4 mb of ram and upgraded to a solid state hard drive and this speeded things up considerably, but loading and then exporting to jpeg are still quite slow.I had gone back to using luminar 2018, but I've just downloaded the new version of 3 , so i'll be giving that a go.

I haven't had any problems with it actually crashing the computer though.

DrDon Loc: Hingham, Ma

cameraf4 wrote:

Like others I have Luminar and Aurora HDR and have... (show quote)

It is lmportant to follow Luminars requirements and upgrade your video card drivers to open GL 3.3 or better. It is free to do so. My Luminar would not run at all until I did, now it is very impressive.

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

Thanks, guys. You have unfortunately confirmed what I was suspecting. Am thinking SS Hard Drive, 16GB RAM, Integrated On-Board Graphics, still like Windows 10. Anything else I should keep in mind?

dino21 Loc: McAllen, TX

cameraf4 wrote:

Thanks, guys. You have unfortunately confirmed what I was suspecting. Am thinking SS Hard Drive, 16GB RAM, Integrated On-Board Graphics, still like Windows 10. Anything else I should keep in mind?

Yes build your own. You control what you put in and have the fun of putting it together yourself with better parts. And don't get "integrated on board graphics" Get a quality card. Why buy more lowball products made with lowbid parts to replace ones that did not work very good?

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

dino21 wrote:

Yes build your own. You control what you put in and have the fun of putting it together yourself with better parts. And don't get "integrated on board graphics" Get a quality card. Why buy more lowball products made with lowbid parts to replace ones that did not work very good?

Kinda new to this. Just what would be a "quality card?"

dino21 Loc: McAllen, TX

You can do research on this online but there are several great companys...MSI, EVGA, ASUS just to name a few. How much do you want to spend on a new computer? If you are really interested in building your own it is not that hard. I have built 4 and all are still running well. If you are really interested, I would invest my time to guide you with step by step directions that I have used in the past. Just remember, you get what you pay for.

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

dino21 wrote:

You can do research on this online but there are several great companys...MSI, EVGA, ASUS just to name a few. How much do you want to spend on a new computer? If you are really interested in building your own it is not that hard. I have built 4 and all are still running well. If you are really interested, I would invest my time to guide you with step by step directions that I have used in the past. Just remember, you get what you pay for.

Thanks dino. Sounds intriguing. But I confess that once I got on the high side of 60, my conceptualization of technology fell through the floor. In younger days in the workforce I sometimes had to crack-open a PC to change/add hardware and that worked well. But today I'm more of a "Let George do it" kinda guy.