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I'm running a pretty similar CPU/GPU combo. I'll have to experiment.

Since my purchase on December 18, 2022 I have been forced to migrate back and forth between v1 and v2 due to the lag, hangs and crashes in v2. On 10/6/2023 I updated to 2.2.0 after not working in v2 since July 2023 due to performance and stability issues described in this forum and was immediately forced to return to v1 due to unworkable lag in the pixel persona. Task Manager showed a power usage spike during the lag but nothing else. My v1 and v2 performance metrics are identically dialed down from the default and hardware acceleration is disengaged, and while that worked wonders for Designer v1 it has had no appreciable effect on v2. Here's hoping this problem can be fixed before this thread reaches double digit pages.

Ultimately it's the sudden inability to do this that led to my question. Originally I was working in Affinity Designer v1, when this behavior suddenly began. I switched over to v2 hoping it was a v1 problem, which it is not. I'm not an expert user by any means but I've been working with artboards for about two weeks without incident, only 8 hours hours into a ten hour workday did I have this experience. I'm wondering if it's a memory issue since their are 70+ artboards, and an appropriate number of pixel layers along with the countless curves. Thank you to everyone who attempted to answer my question, I suppose I'll just carve out some time and do some experimenting. I'll post any solution I encounter.

Can someone explain to me why the new rectangle is being created to the "Master Group" instead of the selected layer group? The attached video shows an example of the behavior I'm encountering. I know the layer lock has specific limitations that allow grouped items to be selected but I'm confused about why the program is behaving this way. It's been my experience that new shapes are created to the active group, but for some reason that has changed. P.S. Enjoy a bit of Rick James free of charge. 2023-05-11_15-37-23.mp4

Safe to say this is still a problem in 2023?

Thanks Dan.

Are there any plans to allow for the opacity of Guides to be changed? I don't know what the backend process would be, however considering that we can choose between fill and outline I wouldn't think it a major overhaul.

Thanks @thomaso I appreciate the assist.

Hello All, Can someone enlighten me to what I'm doing wrong here? Affinity Designer is changing the resolution of my exported image and I'm not sure why. I am exporting multiple items individually using the "Selection Only" command in Designer Persona. With each export the resolution scales to a whole number but the numbers are drastically different from what the Transform window shows. The scaling of the height is especially troubling. In the examples I provided the image scaled from a pixel height of 158.2 to 120. On another item the height scaled from 169 to 159. I'm not sure why this is happening, and any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Indeed, just yesterday I reverted to a Adobe state of mind and forgot that locked items are omitted from the Select Same parameters and changed the colors of a couple hundred objects. An hour later I'd moved on to other tasks only to notice my (forced) blunder. All I can say is thank God for incremental saves. I really hope this gets addressed soon.

I apologize for reply so belatedly, my alerts are a mess. All the same thanks for taking the time @walt.farrell and @Umiama. I can't really explain it either, it was one of a many issues I was having after the 1.9 update. For now at least it seems Designer and I have settle on a truce and everything is working efficiently and (mostly) correctly now.

@loukash I appreciate the kind words and the time you took to answer my question. the reality is it's quite embarrassing considering I've used the hamburger to create custom brushes, yet I never thought to look there for the tools I needed to change my color panel. Instead I focused exclusively on the thought that the options would be found within the Preferences. In hindsight it seems quite obvious that the user would change the behavior of the color panel via the color panel's hamburger menu. So while I do have my own issues (gimme undo and redo buttons please) with the UI, I don't consider this situation worthy of criticism. Quite the opposite actually.

Thank you for the assistance folks. I figured it was something simple I was missing. I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I completely forgot about the "hamburger" menu. It's not all bad though, the embarrassment will keep me from forgetting again.

Is there a way to change the Color Panel from the HSL color wheel to an RGB/CMYK slider?

Thanks @Gear maker I appreciate all the effort you've put into this. By all appearances it looks like I've reached some sort of solution. As I mentioned before the issue seemed to lie with a series of rounded rectangles (I had roughly 10,000) that were making use of the contour tool, once these objects were deleted the file size and memory usage fell substantially, although it was still quite high. I also dropped the RAM limit to its lowest position and saw an immediate boost to responsiveness, including redraw speeds, and a stabilization of memory usage. I imagine the higher memory usage is a Windows/AMD thing, alternatively its a good excuse to upgrade my desktop memory 😁. Thanks again @Gear maker I think we can call this one solved.