Nikon Capture mysteriously behaves

I’ve been fighting a severe speed problem with Nikon Capture NX2.

On a hunch, I shut down my Mac Pro Nehalem, and swapped 32GB of memory for 16GB.

Guess how much faster Capture NX2 ran? About 15X faster— yes at least fifteen times faster. What took 15 minutes now takes 1 minute.

The only puzzler: after swapping back to the 32GB configuration, the speed problem remains banished (NX2 still makes use of only about 1/5 of the available processing power).

Well, i’ll be happy if it stays that way so I’m crossing my fingers.