Windows 8 and Lightroom 4

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I'm tempted to buy LR4 but am not sure how it will run in the windows 8 environment. Adobe say its OK but I would welcome input from any of you guys who are using it! So far I'm not very impressed by windows latest offering......
 
RJL2005 said:
I'm tempted to buy LR4 but am not sure how it will run in the windows 8 environment. Adobe say its OK but I would welcome input from any of you guys who are using it! So far I'm not very impressed by windows latest offering......
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Well buy it and go back to Win7 if you are not impressed with 8.
 
Bought the laptop with W8 installed. Not sure if I have the option of going back:thinking:
 
Download the 30 day trial and see for yourself.
 
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Download the 30 day trial and see for yourself.
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This is the way forward... get the trial.

If you like it, buy a boxed copy from Amazon or another cheap outlet then just put your licence key in and the trial becomes full version.
 
LR4 works OK on my setup running Win 8 - no problem at all:)
 
Yes me too. Absolutely no problems running 64 bit Lightroom 4.2 on Windows 8
 
RJL2005 said:
I'm tempted to buy LR4 but am not sure how it will run in the windows 8 environment. Adobe say its OK but I would welcome input from any of you guys who are using it! So far I'm not very impressed by windows latest offering......
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I'm using LR4.2 in Windows 8. No problems.
 
64 bit Lightroom 4.3 on Windows 8 - blindingly fast compared to earlier LR4 versions
 
Using windows 8 and Lightroom 4.3 on an ssd. Super quick. Also you can get a proper start menu from stardock.com for a few dollars then its just like win 7 with 8 features
 
I upgraded to windows 8 a few weeks ago and have since gone back to windows 7.
I have also recently upgraded my graphics card to take advantage of the capabilities in Photoshop. It turns out that there are / was a few driver issues with AMD/ATI and Photoshop and to a lesser degree Lightroom. Unless you are using a nvidia or intel based card or this issue has been sorted over the past few weeks then I would stop with windows 7 until they can release a driver that solves the issues. The issue is well documented and the only real way of preventing it in photoshop at least is to reduce GPU usage. I did also have an issue with Dfine crashing as well.

On a side note, Classicshell is fab and was one of the fist things I installed when I did my windows 8 install.
 
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It will be sorted soon... AMD/ATI have always had driver support as a weak point compared to the green team :)
 
Win8 with LR4.3 here too and it works lovely :D The annoying stutter that would upset my mp3s playing has gone too which was there in Win7
 
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