Adobe Lightroom and nVidia Cards

[DarkRogue]

Hello,

I'm currently helping a friend put together a list of parts for a new PC as his is starting down the path of death-by-age. It's not quite there yet, but helps to have a list prepared.

Anyway, he does quite a bit of photography work and for some reason he was perplexed over Adobe Lightroom. He claims he's read a lot of reports of people having problems with Adobe Lightroom freezing/crashing or otherwise just being plain screwy with an nVidia graphics card, and was second-guessing the choice for a 9600GT or 8800GT.

I decided to look it up and indeed, according to Google, there were quite a few people experiencing problems with this combination. However, all of the reports I found were people using Lightroom v1.3 in conjunction with some variation of the GeForce 169 Drivers. The "solution" at the time of those posts were to roll back to the 163 drivers.

Well, I told him to update drivers because nVidia recently (finally) released the 175 drivers (WHQL - non beta) and he is also using Lightroom v1.4.1. I tried again to search Google, but there is absolutely zero information about the updated programs and drivers. IMO this should mean one or both updates fixed this problem, but I can't be sure. For the time being I said he could bring some work over and work on my PC just to see, but it's going to be a few days before that can happen and I was wondering if anyone else could come up with an answer in the meantime.

SO, in a nutshell:
Is anyone using Adobe Lightroom v1.4.1 in conjunction with the nVidia GeForce 175 drivers and if so, do you have ANY problems whatsoever with it?

Thanks in advance.

Edit:
Typos.
Also, according to the Adobe Knowledge Base, they suggest disabling nVidia's nView software to prevent certain issues related to Lightroom. Is this functionality part of the base drivers package or is it part of a separate nVidia Tools type package?

 

[DarkRogue]

No one?

I would assume this means that either no one actually has any problems with the newer versions and thus haven't bothered to post about how it's working correctly, or no one else actually uses this combination for one reason or another..

 

[toadeater]

Originally posted by: DarkRogue
No one?

I would assume this means that either no one actually has any problems with the newer versions and thus haven't bothered to post about how it's working correctly, or no one else actually uses this combination for one reason or another..

Install the Lightwave free trial on his PC and let him see for himself. It's only 42MB.

http://www.photoshopsupport.co...htroom/free-trial.html

 

[DarkRogue]

Good point, I suppose I could try that, but there are a few problems with that.
First is I'm not sure how "clean" that application is.. that is if I uninstall it, I don't know if it'll leave behind a bunch of registry keys and rogue files on my PC - I wish to avoid that. If it is clean and my PC looks exactly like it was before I installed it, after I uninstall it, then yeah no big problem there.

The other problem can't really be solved as it's a subjective thing so.. :/

 

[n7]

If he's not gaming, why not just get an AMD card?

Problem solved, no?

Heck, even if he is, the 3850/3870 aren't bad cards.

 

[DarkRogue]

Well, partially because when he does game, they're somewhat demanding and he's looking into a NEC 2690, so if I'm not mistaken, the 8800GT handles the higher resolutions more nicely than the ATI counterparts. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Anyway, I could also assume that the problem is solved with the newer version and/or drivers since I have not seen any evidence of problems outside of v1.3 of Lightroom and the 169 drivers.