Library Preview displays at lower resolution than Develop Preview

I recently bought a Nikon D7100.
I took some test shots and imported the images to Lightroom 4.4, then generated 1:1 previews for all the images.
Previews zoomed to 1:1 in Library Mode are noticeably soft. The image below is a screen shot of the Library preview:
Moving to Develop View produces a higher-resolution 1:1 preview. The image below is a screen shot of the Develop preview:
Look at the bricks and window screens to see the difference.
This difference occurs immediately after import (with a User Preset applied during import). Once any Develop work is done, the Library preview updates and displays at full resolution.
This problem makes doing initial editing/selection of images time consuming, because I can't determine the sharpness/quality of imported images until I've done some kind of Develop adjustment on each image.
If anyone has a circumvention or solution to this problem I will appreciate receiving it.
Thanks,
Brett Rowett
Sacramento CA

BRSac wrote:
I recently bought a Nikon D7100.
I took some test shots and imported the images to Lightroom 4.4, then generated 1:1 previews for all the images.
Previews zoomed to 1:1 in Library Mode are noticeably soft.
This difference occurs immediately after import (with a User Preset applied during import). Once any Develop work is done, the Library preview updates and displays at full resolution.
You said "then generated 1:1 previews for all the images," so I assume you manually selected Library> Previews> Render 1:1 Previews from inside the Libray module. Selecting 'Render Previews : 1:1' in the LR Import module under 'File Handling' will automatically render the previews on import.
There are two possibilites why you are seeing low-res 1:1 Library previews:
1) The Previews were still being created in the background after import, and you are trying to edit images that do not yet have a 1:1 preview.
2) You inadvertently cancelled the 1:1 preview rendering process by a) closing the progress bar in the upper lefthand, or b) closing LR before completion of 1:1 Preview Rendering.
I would NOT reccomend discarding 1:1 Previews since that will create the very situation you are complaing about in this post. If you are low on hard drive free space then this recommendation would be helpful.

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