DPP speed vs. ACR

I'm in the midst of doing PP for a shoot with > 1K photos.

ACR is being 'hosted' by CS2 at this time.

It is dog slow; this is not a slow PC.

Here's what I do in this basic high-volume workflow:
- Browse in Bridge
- Open CR2
- Crop / straighten
- Set exposure / WB
- 'Done' / bail from ACR
- Batch to JPG
- end ACR, on to CS2 batch for 2-pass USM, Noiseware (light noise), JPG -> smuggy

Is DPP faster than ACR for this?

Found it: Windows was too low on virtual memory, and if Bridge is being run with maximum preview size, it is churning so long, so hard on 1,200 images in one directory it goes nuts when moving from ACR back to bridge.

Solution, really, was to reduce the preview thumbnails by one notch to 3 across, not 2.

Mod: close topic and man have I been burning threads of late. I need more sleep, less photos.

I know you found your anser but here is something that might also help speed up your system. Switch your Cache in Bridge to 'Use Distributed Cache Files' under Tools > Cache. This places the cahce files for your images in each folder rather then one centralized cache. You can also increase the size of your cache files in the Preferences under Edit > Preferences. This will keep Bridge from having to dump files and keep rebuilding the files when it runs up against the cache limit.

I am sure you already know this but when the "circle" is spinning in the ower left corner of Bridge it is building the cache. Best to leave it until it is finished.

DPP is just clumsy. There is no highlight/shadow warnings or easy help to fix them. I've tried DPP and it is a useless task in futility. ACR is the only way to go.

Only the thing is, DPP gives better IQ in some cases (mine)

^^ PACACE says the same; I haven't had time to move DPP into the workflow, but I think I have to. Right after I master nighttime lowlight sports exposure.

Great tips on Bridge; I'll deploy those tonight.

The odd thing is the size of preview drives it nutzzzzzzzzzzzz; the indicator does stop spinning, but no mercy for the hard drive in max preview size.