Nik Efex Pro 4 very slow LR 3.5 and 3.6

My computer is a 27 "iMac 2.93 GHz i7 with 16 GB of DRAM running OS X Lion (10.7.2).

Versions of the software used for the test: opening 3.2.2 Lightroom 3.5 x 64, Lightroom 3.6 x 64, Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 x 64, Color Efex Pro 4.001 x 64.

I think Nik Color Efex Pro 4 is very slow when "Edit In" from Lightroom is used to access the plug-in or stand-alone application.  This is a technical question, which I presented in support of the Nik.  I have not heard of them yet, but I thought it would be a good idea to post here.  Maybe someone has the same problem and knows a solution...

= message to Support technique Nik =.

Image used in the tests is an of a Digital Rebel XT 8-megapixel image.  The image was taken in 2006.

If I select "Edit In" in Lightroom, choose Color Efex Pro 4, wait the preview display, and then select the fog filter it takes 2 minutes and 39 seconds on the 'calculation' go away and the image to be presented.

If I select "Edit In" and chose Color Efex Pro 4 app delay is similar, that is a VERY long time.

In no time my free RAM dropped below 10 GB.  In no time my CPU usage will more than 20%.

If I select "Edit In" and chose Photoshop CS5 and then use the plugin CS5 it takes less than 3 seconds for the calculation to go away.

If I use the Color Efex Pro plug-in in 4 aperture, version 3.2.2 times are similar to those in Photoshop CS5, which is very fast.

The time interval is too short to get an accurate measure of memory and CPU usage in CS5 and opening

What is causing this discrepancy?  This excessive delay - which exists when a filter is adjusted, changed, etc. a lot of essentially useless from Lightroom filters.

Nik worked on that problem?  You have a solution?  If this isn't the case, I expect a resolution in the near future?  Surely, this has been reported before.

===

UPDATE:

I received an email of Nik response.  They acknowledged that this problem has been known "a small amount of time in the past" and went on to say that maybe it's duplicate fonts.

I replied that I have not all fonts in duplicate so that isn't the problem. Now waiting on their reply.

UPDATE:

Nik reacted very quickly.  They completely admitted that this problem has been reported several times recently and their development team is "working on it".

As well as many suggestions - which has indicated that with the exception of paragraph first, it's a boilerplate answer - should be making sure that your video card is up-to-date and supported.

Their first paragraph suggests forcing the CEfex Pro 4.0 app to run in 32-bit mode.  It worked - the slow descent of the Efex app running LR has disappeared - at least on my system.

Tags: Photoshop Lightroom

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