mediumcheese

These garbage apps crash every 1-10 minutes. When it happens to stay alive longer than 10 minutes, switching tools lags for like 2 seconds. Windows performance is embarrassingly bad on powerful systems. How has this not been addressed yet?

@mediumcheese
I have had this issue for ages. Something about being zoomed in , spikes the CPU to 100% over and over.....This also seems to be the issue around lagging the longer the software is open. I used to happen with warps, but now seems to happen even with NO effects at all. Shouldn't be this way. Still using V1 because of this.
Gary
 

I think it's also within our right to ask Serif why they haven't pushed critical bug fixes in smaller patches similar to 2.0.3 and 2.0.4. Given their failure to address program-breaking issues in a timely manner and the inherent risks of the beta version, I've stopped working with Designer 2 almost completely. It really is sad to see...

@Dan C Using the beta is not a viable solution for those of us who use this for professional work, because as stated on the beta page:
I really hope y'all take some serious consideration in changing your development pipeline to allow critical bug fixes to get released in their own updates. This list of bug fixes for 2.1 is INSANELY long. There's no reason all these fixes should be blocked by a big feature update. We've been dealing with crashes every 2-15 minutes for MONTHS now. It's just so utterly disappointing.
Please, I beg of you all as a fan of this suite, do better.

@Dan C Using the beta is not a viable solution for those of us who use this for professional work, because as stated on the beta page:
I really hope y'all take some serious consideration in changing your development pipeline to allow critical bug fixes to get released in their own updates. This list of bug fixes for 2.1 is INSANELY long. There's no reason all these fixes should be blocked by a big feature update. We've been dealing with crashes every 2-15 minutes for MONTHS now. It's just so utterly disappointing.
Please, I beg of you all as a fan of this suite, do better.

@Dan C Using the beta is not a viable solution for those of us who use this for professional work, because as stated on the beta page:
I really hope y'all take some serious consideration in changing your development pipeline to allow critical bug fixes to get released in their own updates. This list of bug fixes for 2.1 is INSANELY long. There's no reason all these fixes should be blocked by a big feature update. We've been dealing with crashes every 2-15 minutes for MONTHS now. It's just so utterly disappointing.
Please, I beg of you all as a fan of this suite, do better.

It's annoying that we have to wait on hotfixes for critical bugs because you guys want to bundle them in with feature updates. Just push out bug fixes on their own. Designer has been almost unusable for me since the last update.

Wouldn't blame you. It's understandable and frustrating. I started using Krita while this gets sorted out. We can love the software and all but it's objectively not fun to have to restart it 20 times a day just to get something done.

Affinity 2 Designer performance is slower on Windows 11, Windows 12 and Mac. We have AMD Ryzen, Intel Xeon and Apple M1 Ultra. Affinity is just generally slower on all of them. Performance improvements and stability must be a top priority. It's taken much longer to develop artwork on AD2 than the good old AD1.x.
Price is very low for the suite so seems a bit unfair to complain about what is now a very good hobby tool.  But at the end of the day commercial use this means Adobe Illustrator is probably a tool we will have to go back to for the time being until this is resolved. It's a shame as we've used Affinity for the last 5 years and loved what they do. It will get better no doubt.

These performance issues are not new to V2 for me. All my Affinity apps for Windows have always had awful performance, from Windows 10 to 11 across multiple PC specs. I'm currently running a Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core CPU and a RTX 3070 Ti GPU with 32GB ram on a M.2 gen4 SSD and these apps are all extremely laggy. There's a short delay when selecting/deselecting everything. Just awful to use.

I am so sick of Windows optimization seemingly never being improved for the multiple years I've been using this software. Utterly disappointing. It runs better on my comparatively weak 2017 Macbook Pro. I've been such a cheerleader for these apps to other designers but I'm really losing faith that they will ever get these to actually run well for Windows. Very frustrating that they aren't putting more resources into this.

These performance issues are not new to V2 for me. All my Affinity apps for Windows have always had awful performance, from Windows 10 to 11 across multiple PC specs. I'm currently running a Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core CPU and a RTX 3070 Ti GPU with 32GB ram on a M.2 gen4 SSD and these apps are all extremely laggy. There's a short delay when selecting/deselecting everything. Just awful to use.

I am so sick of Windows optimization seemingly never being improved for the multiple years I've been using this software. Utterly disappointing. It runs better on my comparatively weak 2017 Macbook Pro. I've been such a cheerleader for these apps to other designers but I'm really losing faith that they will ever get these to actually run well for Windows. Very frustrating that they aren't putting more resources into this.

I just want to add to this thread that performance for me on Windows in both Designer and Photo has been unbelievably abysmal. The attached video shows what it looks like just panning the view around on a very small file with not a lot of elements. The amount of lag and stutter is insane. Any change I make with an adjustment layer in Photo lags for over a second sometimes. WHEN WILL THIS BE IMPROVED????

I've messed with all the performance and snapping settings with no change.
My specs:
Intel i5 6600K
Gigabyte G1 GTX 1070 8GB
16GB Ram
Running on an M.2 SSD
hooked up to a 60Hz 1080p monitor and a 144Hz 1440p monitor
I get better performance on my 2017 Macbook Pro! This is the only thing keeping me from loving this software and recommending it to people. Please do something.
Affinity_Designer_2020-04-17_14-33-41.mp4

Running into the same issue. Saving a document and it doesn't show up in my iCloud folder in Windows 10. Also tried exporting as SVG and still nothing.

Tried to force a sync by changing a filename in Windows, but the files still didn't show up.

EDIT: After exporting to SVG and emailing it to myself and then saving it to my iCloud Drive subfolder I was trying to save to in the first place, it finally synced and showed the afdesign file

Though why can't I add a second stroke via the appearance panel to multiple objects at once?

The 1.9 Windows betas have hardware acceleration.
You should download a copy and see if it helps. If not, reporting back your findings will help the Devs improve it.
The betas install separately to the released versions so they do not interfere with each other but do not use the beta for commercial work (just test it) as that is not recommended at the moment

Sometimes I lay down some text with artistic text because I don't like to have to stretch a box first. I just lay it down to see how it looks as one line. Then if I decide it's too long and I would like to wrap it, I would really REALLY like the ability to covert to text frame so I can start adjusting the wrap. Seems like that case wouldn't be difficult.
+1 for this feature.

Yes. It's an annoyance that could be easily fixed. It's a user experience improvement.
Do you just go look for feature requests that you deem unnecessary by the way you use the app just to argue with people who support it? Everyone's workflow is different, and for a lot of people this feature would improve that workflow. Why are you even in here?

Yes. It's an annoyance that could be easily fixed. It's a user experience improvement.
Do you just go look for feature requests that you deem unnecessary by the way you use the app just to argue with people who support it? Everyone's workflow is different, and for a lot of people this feature would improve that workflow. Why are you even in here?

Maybe it's not a hardship but usability is often about little things like this. Not to keep banging the drum but Freehand had it right.
The more Affinity can become a vessel for the ghost of Freehand, the better as far as I'm concerned.

The functionality to switch between artistic and frame text would be a great addition to Designer... Illustrator's implementation of doing this (double click a specific node on a text object, or right click > convert to...) is a perfect example on how it should be handled.

Here's a thread with a whole bunch of other people wanting this as well.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer, version 1.8.4
Changes in this build
The changes in Affinity Designer for iPad 1.8.4 (over the last release  Affinity Designer for iPad 1.8.3) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Preparations to our iPad apps to ready them for the release of iOS 14 later in the year Support for Apple Magic Keyboard for iPad, including hover states for buttons, scrollable areas and cursors. Make Hand Tool available for accessibility purposes (from a Preference item). Fix for incorrect initial direction of curves drawn using Apple Pencil in vector mode. Fix for inability to select specific brushes. Improved font handling and support for custom user fonts. Fix for undesirable shapes being created when dragging the start/end nodes of a shape on top of each other to close the shape. Improved margin and bleed presets for documents. Fix for incorrect rendering of grids past certain zoom levels. Fix for EPS exporting with black bitmap areas. Speculative fix for occasional lockups in Pencil Tool. Document save performance improvements. Text performance improvements. Fix for 'Expand Strokes' failing to consider 'velocity' as a width controller. Allow certain documents created on Windows to open correctly (if the document contained a saved reference to exporting as Windows GDI formats). Localisation improvements. Assorted small bug fixes.  Earlier changes in 1.8 since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features & improvements) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 update announcement and this 1.8.2 update announcement
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen.
Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them.
If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

For those wondering, what this actually means is support for fonts installed through Adobe’s Creative Cloud app. Nice!

I just want to add to this thread that performance for me on Windows in both Designer and Photo has been unbelievably abysmal. The attached video shows what it looks like just panning the view around on a very small file with not a lot of elements. The amount of lag and stutter is insane. Any change I make with an adjustment layer in Photo lags for over a second sometimes. WHEN WILL THIS BE IMPROVED????

I've messed with all the performance and snapping settings with no change.
My specs:
Intel i5 6600K
Gigabyte G1 GTX 1070 8GB
16GB Ram
Running on an M.2 SSD
hooked up to a 60Hz 1080p monitor and a 144Hz 1440p monitor
I get better performance on my 2017 Macbook Pro! This is the only thing keeping me from loving this software and recommending it to people. Please do something.
Affinity_Designer_2020-04-17_14-33-41.mp4

We have made fixes/improvements to this area (Crash when trying to type into the Font Dropdown) of the program in the latest customer beta. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below.
The latest beta builds are downloadable from links at the top of each of these beta forum posts.
Affinity Photo 1.8.2.174 for Mac Affinity Designer 1.8.2.4 for Mac Affinity Publisher 1.8.2.619 for Mac These betas install parallel, next to the release version (they do not overwrite your release) and so the fixes can be tried in the beta without affecting your normal workflow in the release version.
Once these programs have been through a full beta process the change will be released in a future free 1.8.2 update/patch to all customers.

amazed this still isn't a thing.