Ligtroom classic CC and high heat

[finepetphoto]

Hi guys,

since I bought my macbook pro mid 2014 retina, I noticed quite a difference with my hackintosh running on lenovo laptop.

I get a lot of CPU usage while only browsing freshly imported photos with sidecar previews and thus fans are spinning on top speeds, which does not stop CPU reaching even 100°C

Same goes for editing photos, immediately CPU jumps along with fans and heat and keeps that until I stop working on it.

Before I bought it, it was cleaned from all dust and thermal paste was re-applied, twice.

Also I noticed that since update to mojave, HW acceleration is terrible, picture brightness jumps while moving mouse (disabling and re-enabling HW acceleraion helps), applying brush is delayed several seconds (not happening while acceleration is disabled) and overal speed is decreasing by every photo I edit. I am using 1:1 previews with smart previews

Face detection and address lookup are disabled and were always. Tried with disabling sync, did not help.

Dumping my system info here along with screenshot with temps and CPU percentage that was done by only playing with global exposure setting.

Probably the only thing I did not try yet is reinstalling whole system

Lightroom Classic version: 8.0 [ 1193777 ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: sk-SK

Operating system: Mac OS 10

Version: 10.14.0 [18A391]

Application architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 8

Processor speed: 2,5 GHz

Built-in memory: 16 384,0 MB

Real memory available to Lightroom: 16 384,0 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 5 851,1 MB (35,7%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 14 411,5 MB

Memory cache size: 1 073,9MB

Internal Camera Raw revision: 61

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Camera Raw virtual memory: 3032MB / 8191MB (37%)

Camera Raw real memory: 3070MB / 16384MB (18%)

Displays: 1) 3360x2100, 2) 1680x1050

Graphics Processor Info:

Metal: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic CC

Library Path: /Users/Matt/Documents/Adobe/Lightroom/Lightroom Catalog-2-2.lrcat

Settings Folder: /Users/Matt/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

Installed Plugins:

1) AdobeStock

2) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in

3) Canon Tether Plugin

4) Facebook

5) Flickr

6) MIDI2LR

7) Nikon Tether Plugin

Config.lua flags: None

AudioDeviceIOBlockSize: 512

AudioDeviceName: eqMac2

AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2

AudioDeviceSampleRate: 44100

Build: 12.1x4

CoreImage: true

GL_ACCUM_ALPHA_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_BLUE_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_GREEN_BITS: 0

GL_ACCUM_RED_BITS: 0

GL_ALPHA_BITS: 8

GL_BLUE_BITS: 8

GL_DEPTH_BITS: 24

GL_GREEN_BITS: 8

GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE: 2048

GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384

GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS: 8

GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS: 16384,16384

GL_RED_BITS: 8

GL_RENDERER: Intel Iris Pro OpenGL Engine

GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 1.20

GL_STENCIL_BITS: 8

GL_VENDOR: Intel Inc.

GL_VERSION: 2.1 INTEL-12.0.34

OGLEnabled: true

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[Ian Lyons]

Your 'System Info' indicates that you're using a midi controller (Loupedeck?). It may be that the device drivers or plugin are not yet Mojave compatible. Have you tried disabling the midi controller or updating the driver/plugin?

Some more info at Google Groups

[finepetphoto]

I am using open-source MIDI2LR and this problem started immediately after I bought the macbook with high sierra in it at that time and without the MIDI controller. But yes, I tried it one more time to be sure and it hit 100°C anyway. Tried also disabling sync while controller was disabled along with disabling HW acceleration and nothing changed.

I know macbooks are supposed to run hot, but I don't think it's supposed to jump to 100C after I touch sliders and edit some photos. Also I found some other cases where people started complaining about LR making macs scream after updating to CC, but no real solution was found at that time too, sadly

[johnrellis · Accepted solution]

Does LR's CPU utilization spike only when you're doing something (moving a Develop slider, scrolling grid view, or exporting), quickly dropping to less than 10% or so when it's idle?  That behavior is as designed for both LR and the Macbook Pro.  In the last few years, Adobe has worked hard to use all of the processors in Develop, including the graphics processor, to make LR as fast as possible, and that generates a lot of heat (especially the GPU).   Macbook Pros can reach 100C very quickly when most of the processors are used for more than a second or so. Most applications don't use the processors anywhere near so intensively, so people generally only observe their Macbook "overheating" when running LR.

[finepetphoto]

Yes, that is correct, it is doing only while I am moving sliders,

however it still should not be so resource hungry while I am only culling the photos with already generated previews that are part of the RAW image and other programs are showing them as fast as lightroom without overheating and excessive noise, that is what is bugging me probably even more...

GPU runs fairly cold and doesn't go much higher than on the screenshot, only around 80C which I find normal (not the 100C mark)

Maybe I am just being picky, but I find it super weird and definitely not very healthy for the CPU

I wish there was an option to set it somehow to more normal behavior 😕

[johnrellis]

definitely not very healthy for the CPU

LR's relatively heavy use of the CPU won't harm it. Intel processors have temperature sensors that automatically reduce their clock rate if they start to get too hot.

A few people have experienced bugs where the CPU uitlization never drops even when it's idle -- that's a bug that should be reported to Adobe.