Adobe Lightroom 3.3 BSOD

Hey guys,
About two weeks ago I installed the trial version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.3. I am loving it to death and am considering purchasing the program, although there is a major issue that is standing in my way. Since I installed, I have probably gotten around 10 Windows Blue Screens of Death. (BSOD) These crashes seem to happen at random times, but they have happened during Import, Export, Publishing, Photo Development, and during thumbnail generation. I have done a decent amount of Googling and have been unable to find an answer to the issue; it does not seem to be common at all. I have updated drivers of everything I can think that would be affecting it (Wacom, nVidia, mouse, motherboard chipset).
I love the software, but considering that it is essentially unusable due to these crashes, it is impossible to justify purchasing it. Any help would be very much appreciate. While I am not a genius at diagnosing BSODs, I will attempt to provide any additional details you need.
Info:
OS: Windows 7 x64
Software: Adobe Lightroom 3.3
Hardware:
- nVidia GPU
- Wacom Tablet Intuos4
- Gigabyte Motherboard
Thanks!

I use all those Apps as well, LR is still more likly to show problems as it is a very heavy user of Hard Drive constantly and makes a lot of demands on the RAM (whils
t not using that much of it!). You can watch temperatures to see. Premier Pro will go flat out when rendering, but doesn't use that much the rest of the time, so temperatures of CPU and drives increase to max whilst rendering, but don't go up the rest of the time. LR pushes temps high more or less constantly when in develop mode and when importing and exporting. I reckon it stresses systems more than any other app I use! Unlike Premier Pro and After Effects it doesn't take a fast machine to use, but it stresses any machine.
PS hardly uses any resources once it has managed to open and render the file in the first place. Try opening a couple of hundred files at the same time in PS and see what happens!
By the way, OCing the CPU isn't really going to do much for any of those apps (except perhaps Premier), more threads, more drives and more RAM is the way to go. I would avoid OCing, keep the CPU at stock and just OC it for playing games or perhaps when doing weird and wonderful things in Premier (although I think Premiers weird stuff can be dione in GPU, so you may be better OC'g the graphics card...less cost if it burns up

Similar Messages

  • Bridge CS3 Workspace Adobe Lightroom Web Gallery Creator

    A while back I was looking around for an easy way to create sharp looking image galleries with minimal work, and I came across a workspace plug in for Bridge Cs3. If I remember correctly, it was labeled Adobe Lightroom Web Gallery something or another. Anyway, I recently formatted my computer and reinstalled everything, but for the life of me I can find no trace of that handy workspace plug in. Does anyone know where I can find it? It had a bunch of customizable flash galleries as well as a customizable html gallery as well. Any help would be appreciated!

    Do you mean AMG( Adobe Media Gallery)? You could download from LAB.
    http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Adobe_Media_Gallery

  • Using Adobe Lightroom with OSX Photos

    I love the iCloud integration of the new Photos app, it's really great having all my photos available on my phone.
    I also love the editing capabilities of Adobe Lightroom.
    Has anyone figured out a way of using Photos for the iCloud integration and Lightroom for the editing and post processing?

    Terence Devlin wrote:
    See what I mean:
    there is no way to sensibly use the two apps together,
    Yes, from the Photos + Lightroom together perpsective.
    But taking it back to the root, what is the best way to have the same benefits offered by photos (tight integration between iOS and LR)? If Adobe weren't so stingy with their cloud storage, it would be a lot simpler answer because you'd just stick the their storage and product suite.
    How can someone who takes a fair # of photos on iOS get those seamlessly to LR and conversely have access to their photo catalogues on iOS when they want to show them? I think the answer may be CC Photography + Smugmug but there are pitfalls to the smugmug iOS client (does not background sync,  nowhere near as good as Photos, does not integrate with other apps where you may want to use the photos collection).

  • Using Time Machine to back up an external hard drive dedicated to Adobe Lightroom 5

    I recently began to use Adobe Lightroom 5 (I continue to use Aperture, as I have for years).    All of the Lightroom image files and catalogs are on one external hard drive, which I use on my iMac, my Macbook Pro, and in the digital labs of a school where I'm taking a course.
    Not yet having developed a protocoI for creating a back up of all my Lightroom image files and catalogs that I could use in the event of my Lightroom-dedicated drive's failure, I have just done a drag and drop of the whole drive's contents to another external drive (which, as it happens, I have been using for some time for my Aperture vaults).
    I am thinking of removing the dedicated Lightroom drive from the excluded list of my iMac's Time Machine (which uses yet another external drive), so that I can easily and automatically create back ups of changes to the Lightroom external drive without having to do the cumberome and inelegant drag and drop at some yet-to-be-determined frequency.  (The Macbook Pro uses a Time Capsule for its Time Machine; I envision using only the iMac's TM external drive for Lightroom backups.)
    What is the simplest and most desirable way to actually execute the backup?  I envision that it would be this: that every time I want to do a Lightroom back up, I'd mount the Lightroom external drive on the iMac (or keep it mounted if my work session has just been on the iMac) and then ask Time Machine to "Back Up Now." When the backup is finished, I'd dismount the dedicated Lightroom drive.
    A related question is what if anything would be the effect on my Lightroom work if a Time Machine back up began while I was working in Lightroom? Or if for some reason an hourly TM back up began and I needed to quickly end a Lightroom session before the backup was completed?

    Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac

  • I am trying to install a registered copy of Photoshop Lightroom that I never installed on my Apple iMac with software version 10.10.  I get the message "Adobe Lightroom 1.  Cannot be installed on this disk because a newer version of this software already

    I am trying to install a registered copy of Photoshop Lightroom that I never installed on my Apple iMac with software version 10.10.
    I get the message “Adobe Lightroom 1.  Cannot be installed on this disk because a newer version of this software already exists on this disk”
    If it is here – I cannot find it anywhere, and I don’t believe that I ever installed it.
    I have ordered the upgrade to Lightroom 5.0 and figured that I should install Lightroom 1.0 first.
    How can I solve this problem

    Actually when LR 5 starts for the first time after it is installed it will have a dialog to Buy, Try or Enter a serial number. You select Enter a serial number and enter the LR 5 serial number first and then because it is an upgrade serial number it will ask for the serial number of a Previous version. You then enter the LR 1 serial number.

  • Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and Bridge does not recognize the raw files from my Canon Mark III 5D Camera.

    Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and Bridge does not recognize the raw files from my new Canon Mark III 5D Camera.  How can I get my files open to view and edit?  I am using LR3, Photoshop CS3 and Bridge CS3.  Do I need to upgrade these programs or is there another way to get these programs to recognize my files?
    When I try opening the raw images in Lightroom, the thumbnails say "Preview unavailable for this file"  ... when I click "import" an error message pops up that says "The files are from a camera which is not recognized by the raw format support in Lightroom."
    When I try opening the raw images in Photoshop, an error message pops up saying "could not complete your request because photoshop does not recognize this type of file."
    When I try opening the raw images in Bridge, it just shows an icon with the file name and CR2.
    Please help!!!

    Unless I missed an announcement, today, LR6 isn't available, yet, right?  Only Adobe employees and beta testers would know what LR6 does differently at this point and they're all sworn to secrecy.
    LR5 is available as a standalone version.
    PS-CS6 is available as a serial-number-licensed version.
    PS-CC + LR5 are also available as a Photography Plan subscription for $10/month with a minimum OS versions of OSX 10.7 (and probably 10.8, soon) and Windows 7.
    Bridge is part of PS, not a separate program.
    LR5 standalone and LR+PS-CC plan are both available on this page:  http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/software.html
    PS-CS6 can be found on this page:  Creative Suite 6 which can be found by searching www.adobe.com for Photoshop CS6 and clicking the Buy link in the on-the-fly search results.
    As with any new Adobe software, it might be wise to run it in trial mode for a few days/weeks to see if it works well with your computer, before purchasing and finding out you might need a new computer, first.

  • I just bought the MacBook Pro 13" and it says I have Adobe Lightroom 5, but when I try to register it and put serial number , it only has 6 boxes. Do they mean serial number of my computer  because thats 12 digits

    I'm trying to register Adobe Lightroom 5 on my new 13" MacBookPro Retina. When they say type in serial number , theres only 6 boxes. My macbook has 12 digits so I can't advance to next question. what am I doing wrong. It sayd that the adobe Lightroom 5 is on this macbook pro...Can someone help ?

    Did you buy this directly from Apple or from elsewhere. I've never heard of Lightroom coming pre-installed so it sounds like you MBP might not really be "new."
    Enter your serial number here to check the support status and see if the computer has been previously registered:
    https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do
    If you did not buy it from Apple and that site shows any purchase date other than yours (± a few days), return the computer to the fraud perpetrators who sold it, get your money back, and buy directly from Apple next time

  • Not sure if I can install this edition on my computer (Adobe lightroom 3)

    So today I went to my local bestbuy and asked for Adobe lightroom 3, they gave it to me and I went home. When I got home I saw that its the Student and Teacher edition. I am not a student or teacher at any university, I am  in High School, I was wondering if I can still use and install this product?? Or do I have to go back and return it for the right edition? Please help.

    Hi There,
    You can install this product in your machine. So don't worry and install Lightroom 3 in your machine.
    Regards
    Priyank

  • Adobe Lightroom 4 - Some Questions / Help Needed

    Hi everyone.
    After advice from several experts, I've just purchased Adobe Lightroom 4. I've already got Photoshop CS5, but I was looking for something proper to organise my photos, plus I found Lightroom easier to do the sort of editing I am wanting to do. Now, I only really use photoshop for things like colour pops, or really in-depth editing. Anyway, I'm loving Lightroom so far, but there is some stuff I'm not very sure of, so I'd appreciate some help
    1. Organising
    Firstly, I'm not really sure how to organise. At the moment, I've just got lots of folders with random events in My Pictures on W7, so I might have a folder called April 11, which contains photos from that month but that might have been a wedding or an easter holiday or both. So it doesn't really work. \
    I understand in Lightroom what catalogs are. But I know enough to know that I don't want to group mine into those, its getting too complicated. What I don't know though is the difference between a collection and a folder. Basically, I'm wanting to reimport and reorganise all my photos, so I want to put them into "events" as such like you can do on iPhoto on a mac, so I would have "France Summer Holiday 11" for example, or "Mia's Wedding". I'm not really sure on the best way to do this ...?
    2. Editing
    I've played around quite a bit so far, and I really like what I've seen. On a lot of photos, I've made a lot of changes. But from what I can see, these changes are stored merely in Lightroom itself. For example, at the moment I'm importing photos from my external disk into Lightroom, which then saves them in C://My Pictures/Lightroom/Pictures . When I go look at these photos in windows explorer which I know I have edited, it doesn't show any of the changes or editing I've done on them. Now I realise this is me being stupid, but why doesn't it? Supposing I then want to email that photo to a friend that I have edited? How would I do that? I don't want to have to open lightroom and export every single photo I edit? There must be a simpler way?
    Likewise for backing up, because all my files are in subfolders within C:// My pictures / Lightroom / Pictures, to back up I was simply going to set up windows to copy that latter folder onto my external HDD everytime I plugged it in. This would be pointless however if it isn't physically overwriting the original photo with my edited version?
    3. Editing 2
    Something else I like to do is make lots of different edits to the same photo. For example, at the moment I'm editing a photo of a pier at night. I spent ages adjusting colours and lighting and so on, and now it looks great. But I would also like to save a copy of that photo with the "old age photo" effect preset on. Is this possible? and how do I do it? Other than obviously importing a duplicate?
    4. & 5. & 6 - Misc:
    4. Simple question - how do I add tags, keywords or comments if I haven't done it on import?
    5. My camera doesn't have built in GPS. Is it possible for me to manually geotag photos (in a batch, say for a Summer Holiday to NY), could I manually add a geotag for all these photos?
    6. I also forgot to add copyright information on import for some, is it possible to do this after import and how?
    7. I normally shoot in JPEG. I probably shoot shoot in RAW as everyone tells me to do so. Are there any significant advantages in terms of quality, and for editing with?
    Thanks for any help given. I appreciate this is a lot of questions, but I could really use the advice.

    Hi William,
    1. Organising
    Firstly, I'm not really sure how to organise. At the moment, I've just got lots of folders with random events in My Pictures on W7, so I might have a folder called April 11, which contains photos from that month but that might have been a wedding or an easter holiday or both. So it doesn't really work. \
    I understand in Lightroom what catalogs are. But I know enough to know that I don't want to group mine into those, its getting too complicated. What I don't know though is the difference between a collection and a folder. Basically, I'm wanting to reimport and reorganise all my photos, so I want to put them into "events" as such like you can do on iPhoto on a mac, so I would have "France Summer Holiday 11" for example, or "Mia's Wedding". I'm not really sure on the best way to do this ...?
    I am not so sure if you understand *catalogs*.
    You need a catalog, exactly 1 in my opinion. A catalog is a database. The Lightroom database, where records about your images are stored, including the pointers to your images, which are not inside a catalog! LR backups just does the backup of the catalog (i.e. a file ending .lrcat). You need to take care separately that your real images are backed up !
    Inside your LR database the best way to organize is via collections - this will give you what you want with "France summer holiday 11" etc.
    Folders are relatively unimportant, just storage buckets. They should be *handy portions*, I would prefer them with below 3000 images each, as there currently some bugs to those bigger ones.
    Before you start with LR, you can organize your pictures in Mac Finder / WindowsExplorer.
    Or you could do it with the help of LR, by copying your images over during import into the destination folders (and deleting today's folders afterwards after having verified that everything is fine).
    A simple date-based structure will do, I'd recommend  a root parent folder like "LR images", underneath one folder per year (\2010\, \2011\, \2012\...) and underneath them either
    just one folder per month (LR can auto-create them for you)
    or you create the folders in import dialog as e.g. "YYYY-MM-DD description of shoot", to have a mini-diary overview also in your OS.
    Apart from that you create collections, either *dumb ones*, where you drag images into, or smart ones, where you specify criteria according to which they get auto-filled.
    2. Editing
    I've played around quite a bit so far, and I really like what I've seen. On a lot of photos, I've made a lot of changes. But from what I can see, these changes are stored merely in Lightroom itself. For example, at the moment I'm importing photos from my external disk into Lightroom, which then saves them in C://My Pictures/Lightroom/Pictures . When I go look at these photos in windows explorer which I know I have edited, it doesn't show any of the changes or editing I've done on them. Now I realise this is me being stupid, but why doesn't it? Supposing I then want to email that photo to a friend that I have edited? How would I do that? I don't want to have to open lightroom and export every single photo I edit? There must be a simpler way?
    Likewise for backing up, because all my files are in subfolders within C:// My pictures / Lightroom / Pictures, to back up I was simply going to set up windows to copy that latter folder onto my external HDD everytime I plugged it in. This would be pointless however if it isn't physically overwriting the original photo with my edited version?
    LR will never overwrite your original photos.
    You can save most of the catalog content into the xmp-part of the original photo, which is either a sidecar-file (.xmp) or part of the file format, like for DNG, TIFF, PSD, JPG. To do so you select the image in LR and hit <ctrl> s. Or you set it up for continuous update, which creates a lot of operations while you play back and forth in develop.
    I do that on my own, typically twice per file: once I am done with develop, once I am done with keywording and other metadata update.
    LR contains records about your images, i.e. a set of instructions how they are to be interpreted. That is all.
    So of course you need LR to export the result of these instructions, which is actually pretty quick.
    To backup your images you need to do that just once, plus you backup your LR catalog. Or if you save xmp to the files, you can do another backup once xmp is ready.
    I would not consider this pointless. You just have to think that there are 2 places with data for your images: the images themselves and a database with interpretation instructions.
    3. Editing 2
    Something else I like to do is make lots of different edits to the same photo. For example, at the moment I'm editing a photo of a pier at night. I spent ages adjusting colours and lighting and so on, and now it looks great. But I would also like to save a copy of that photo with the "old age photo" effect preset on. Is this possible? and how do I do it? Other than obviously importing a duplicate?
    Yes, this is one of LR's beauties: you create a so-called *virtual copy*, which is just a 2nd record for the same original image file with different interpretation settings, like black-and-white, a different crop size, different development etc. You can have as many virtual copies as you like, and you'll see them as additional thumbnails.
    Virtual copies are not saveable into xmp, though. There is another concept which is saveable into xmp: snapshots. but these are different states in develop history, and you do not see outside develop module that you have several.
    If you export virtual copies e.g. to jpg one file per virutal copy will be created.
    4. & 5. & 6 - Misc:
    4. Simple question - how do I add tags, keywords or comments if I haven't done it on import?
    5. My camera doesn't have built in GPS. Is it possible for me to manually geotag photos (in a batch, say for a Summer Holiday to NY), could I manually add a geotag for all these photos?
    6. I also forgot to add copyright information on import for some, is it possible to do this after import and how?
    7. I normally shoot in JPEG. I probably shoot shoot in RAW as everyone tells me to do so. Are there any significant advantages in terms of quality, and for editing with?
    Thanks for any help given. I appreciate this is a lot of questions, but I could really use the advice.
    ad 4: you use the library module, metadata panel to enter.
    ad 5: you use the map module. Either you manually drop your images on a map, or you have a separate GPS track to load and have LR assign via matching time-stamps.
    ad 6: like 4
    ad 7: You don't need JPG from your camera, you can achieve better results viy LR from RAW. Yes, there are significant advantages as to editing headroom.
    Overall, may I suggest my favorite learning material for LR? First watch Julieanne's Tutorial Videos.
    Then go play and use Victoria Bampton's eBook or paper copy of her "Missing FAQs to LR4": http://www.lightroomqueen.com/books/adobe-lightroom-4-missing-faq/
    Have fun,
    Cornelia

  • Getting an error message when trying to install Adobe Lightroom 5

    I have download the free version of Adobe Lightroom 5 and attempted to install and receive the following error message:
    "You need to have administrative privileges to install this software.
    You do not have the necessary authorization to install this software.  Make ure you have administrative privileges before trying again."
    I am not sure what user name and password to use.  I tried my Apple and it refuses it and I tried the Adobe and it doesn't take this either.  Can anyone provide assistance?
    Thanks!

    Hi There,
    Kindly try the link below:
    Installing Creative Cloud Desktop but I got Error 13 an issue permission on my MacBookPro, why?
    Thanks,
    Atul Saini

  • I have bought a new pc, and i want to move adobe lightroom frome my old computer to my new comuter.

    I have bought a new computer and I want to move adobe lightroom frome my old computer to my new computer, how do I do this?

    thank you
    Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:14:18 -0700
    From: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: I have bought a new pc, and i want to move adobe lightroom frome my old computer to my new comuter.
        Re: I have bought a new pc, and i want to move adobe lightroom frome my old computer to my new comuter.
        created by Tom Hogarty in Photoshop General Discussion - View the full discussion
    This is a fairly in-depth tutorial on moving from one computer to another.(I recommend Option 1)
    http://www.lightroomqueen.com/2009/02/28/how-do-i-move-lightroom-to-a- new-computer/
    Also, there's no need to find the original disk for installation.  Just download the latest update of your purchased version from here: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/ and user your original serial number.
    Regards,
    Tom Hogarty
    Adobe Systems
         Please note that the Adobe Forums do not accept email attachments. If you want to embed a screen image in your message please visit the thread in the forum to embed the image at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5422074#5422074
         Replies to this message go to everyone subscribed to this thread, not directly to the person who posted the message. To post a reply, either reply to this email or visit the message page: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5422074#5422074
         To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit the message page at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5422074#5422074. In the Actions box on the right, click the Stop Email Notifications link.
         Start a new discussion in Photoshop General Discussion by email or at Adobe Community
      For more information about maintaining your forum email notifications please go to http://forums.adobe.com/message/2936746#2936746.

  • My hard drive crashed and I lost everything on my Mac desk top, including my Adobe Lightroom. I had my hard drive replaced but how do I download to my new hard drive? I have my previous serial number but when I entered that, it said it was invalid.

    My hard drive crashed and I lost everything on my Mac desk top, including my Adobe Lightroom. I had my hard drive replaced but how do I download to my new hard drive? I have my previous serial number but when I entered that, it said it was invalid.

    Lightroom - all versions
    Windows
    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=113&platform=Windows
    Mac
    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=113&platform=Macintosh
    Contact Adobe Support by chat for serial number issues:
    http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service1.html ( http://adobe.ly/1aYjbSC )

  • Problem exporting web photo gallery in Adobe Lightroom

    Can not export a web photo gallery using SlideShowPro 1.9.8.5 in Adobe Lightroom 1.4.  In the Web Tab I click on Export which brings up the Save Web Gallery window, I select location, give a file name and click save, but nothing is created.  Have noted that in the Save As Type box the only option is Supported Files, is this OK?  If so, what could the problem be?

    Can't answer the question without looking at the code. Being you have DW, I would parse the code there and you will get more help in the Dreamweaver forum.

  • Installing Adobe Lightroom from Creative Cloud app

    Hello,
    I have a subscription for Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Lightroom. I've just successfuly installed Photoshop from Creative cloud app, though I can't find there the Lightroom. I installed a trial version of Lightroom from Adobe.com, use it in a trial mode because there is no way to activate it.
    How can I deal with that?

    open lightroom > click help > activate

  • Adobe lightroom has stopped working

    hey,adobe lightroom has stopped working

    if that's the error message you're seeing:
    reset your preferences -
    acrobat:  http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7feb.w .html
    adobe media encoder: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1713540
    after effects:  http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/preferences.html
    dreamweaver:  https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver-cs6-cc.html
    flash:  http://helpx.adobe.com/flash/kb/re-create-preferences-flash-professional.html
    illustrator:  http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html
    indesign:  https://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990
    lightroom: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/setting-preferences-lightroom.html
    muse (mac): https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1246022?tstart=0
    photoshop:  https://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776
    photoshop elements:  https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/preference-file-locations-photoshop-elements .html,  http://www.photokaboom.com/photography/learn/Photoshop_Elements/troubleshooting/1_delete_p references_file.htm
    premiere elements:  https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/preference-file-locations-photoshop-elements .html
    premiere pro: http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/premiere/pro/troubleshooter/trash-preferences.html
    if that fails, uninstall, clean (http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html) and reinstall

Maybe you are looking for