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Hi Sean P, yes the issue is solved by uninstalling duet display, thank you. By the way, I did have the latest available version of both duet display and affinity designer at the time, and the driver for iris540 was up to date as well. I only installed duet display recently but didn't think that would be causing the problem. Any chance in the future the two will work nicely together? I am fine with not using both apps together, but I had to uninstall duet display fully to allow AD to work.

@Lee D Thank you, uninstalling Duet Display solved the problem! Although I had the latest version 1.5.3.3 installed. Also just turning off/exit duet display in the system tray didn't seem to work either. Had to uninstall it for Affinity Designer/Photo to work.

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately, doesn't work either, just gets stuck on the launch screen showing Affinity Designer 1.7.3.481. Waited for almost 10minutes still can't see the 'loading fonts' that usually appears under the version number.

Hi, I was on 1.6.x Designer for some time and everything was fine, until all the sudden it was launching into a blank screen with only the ad/news box in the center. Then I upgraded to the latest 1.7.3 version and it's still doing the same thing. It appears that the app is running fine in the background, just not rendering/showing. I can still hover the cursor on different areas to show the tooltips. I am on surface pro 4 with all the latest windows updates installed. I've tried launching both as admin and normal user as well. I've posted this to the bugs forum a few days ago, but still no response, really need to use the app, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi, I was on 1.6.x Designer, it was launching into a blank screen with only the ad/news box in the center. Then I upgraded to the latest 1.7.3 version and it's still doing the same thing. It appears that the app is running fine in the background, just not rendering/showing. I can still hover the cursor on different areas to show the tooltips. I am on surface pro 4 with all the latest windows updates installed. I've tried launching both as admin and normal user as well.