Pandan

Thank you for your explanation. The Warp option works fine for me. I am very satisfied with Affinity photo and the help I received on this forum.

Hi Gabe, Good news to report! I have followed the suggestion to change the renderer to Warp . The suggestion was right on. After that change I opened several raw files and all operations in the Develop and the Photo personas worked fine. I presume the problem had to do with my graphics card? Many thanks to you and to Ron. P. for your help.

Hi Gabe, I have gone ahead with the suggested operations . Unfortunately I have to report that the problem has not been solved.

Hi Gabe, I tried the suggested change. It did not solve the problem. This is however a problem I can live with in my usual workflow.. Thank you again.

I tested several of my Sony Nex 6 files following the sequence ( file/open) over the last few days and here are my findings : 1- With a few exceptions (which surprised me), raw files crashed either right after opening up in the Develop persona or after I performed one or a few slider moves in the Develop persona; 2- Jpeg files opened up normally and worked fine. If I moved a jpeg file from the Photo persona to the Develop persona the jpeg file worked without any problem in the Develop persona. 3- If I opened a raw file using the sequence ( File/ open recent) instead of my usual ( File/open) and found a reference to a raw file which had previous ly crahed in the Develop persona and clicked on it the raw file which had previously crashed then opened normally in the Develop persona and worked fine from then on. 4- If I right click on a raw file stored on my drive and choose to open it up in Affinity Photo it opens in the Develop persona and everything works fine. 5- As indicated in a previous post if I click on a raw file and drag it to the Affinity photo icon it opens normally in Affinity photo and works fine. I hope these findings may shed some light. Thank you for your help.

Hi Gabe, As requested I attach the requested crash reports to this post. 01cd135b-d7b8-412e-9a16-ae4fd0c526d2.dmp 0c182880-3b7b-4601-9667-6b9a66c31c2f.dmp 0c6fb612-08f0-4cef-a383-3669c9356ec2.dmp 161601e5-fdc7-4c7a-9ff1-6031d90e0ed2.dmp 3174396f-c0be-45b2-9f2a-b0a016e2e6a8.dmp 442caea3-c9b2-4477-9c1a-f2adde7d2a15.dmp 4d42c36a-6562-4c54-a4d6-fb6be4bc00e1.dmp 500b8783-278e-478d-968f-7e3659806b6f.dmp 650f7b18-1cf4-4c20-865a-b71ab27e3768.dmp 760a04ae-fb1d-4e48-aa27-6fa3f58c0fe7.dmp 806a736d-a222-49cd-b99e-59b991963e57.dmp 80d67fbc-2376-476d-9059-4539c680cbca.dmp a1f8edd3-1faf-47ef-8544-99b8ab2e613e.dmp a905663c-79c2-4117-ab37-80c7badba898.dmp d1225a15-8048-409e-a63f-16ef45c82035.dmp d373644b-2c90-4605-8269-c1ae53595c72.dmp da47a16c-a4b9-40f3-bc99-9bfa8999fe33.dmp eba8403b-68f8-4be0-acc6-d76df9efba43.dmp f3b3513b-e240-4a47-ab8d-e83fbe94a43e.dmp f88c6031-bf9d-4803-b3b3-55d70d9dc06a.dmp

I have finally found that when I load a Sony raw file by dragging it to the Affinity photo icon at the bottom of my computer screen the file opens in the Develop persona and that from then on everything works normally.. However, when I load such a file the way I described previously ( file/open ) the file still crashes either right away or when I move a slider in the Develop persona. Many thanks to Ron P. for taking the time to download and test my file. Thanks for his comments, advice and help. Greatly appreciated

Thank you for the quick reply. On my "french version" of Affinity Photo I simply go to File/open to load an image. The raw file will appear for a very brief moment in the "raw" persona and then the app crashes. Windows 10 is up to date. My photos are stored on a different drive. I have moved some raw photos to the drive where the app is situated . Unfortanetly this did not solve the problem. Most of the time I use Affinity photo with a tiff or PSD file and and then everything works fine. I do not remember having encountered this problem in previous versions of Affinity photo ( 1.6 and 1.7 versions, for instance)., Maybe I should reinstall version 1.7.3 on my computer to make sure.

On my Windows based computer Affinity Photo 1.8.3 crashes when I try to load a Raw file from my Nex 6 camera . _DSC3791.ARW