Peter N

Thank you I have now been able to locate them.

Although AP2.3.1 says I have assets, I can't seem to find them anywhere, not in downloads folder or anywhere obvious, so although there are instructions on how to install them, there seems to be no folder with them in...can anyone help? this is what I see....

This strange behaviour is seen both with the acceleration on and off.

A further update: Switching off Hardware acceleration makes the program work, but the new NVIDIA driver 496.49 has "changed" the way the system works. Previously with NVIDIA 471.35 it would crash during sharpening or noise reduction when processing .CR3 files. Now with version 496.49 it no longer crashes during the develop phase, but when the Develop key is selected the normal develop dialog appears with the moving bar, but it just stays there and stays there, appearing to be doing it's thing...for several minutes, until I stop it with Ctrl+ Alt + Delete and use the task manager to stop the program. Reverting to switching off hardware acceleration, makes it work, but it is noticeably slower like that. ALSO the overlays brush in the develop persona is now behaving very strangely and drawing a straight line across the image, from an edge...it's possible to work around using the overlay erase tool, but this is a new issue since 1.10.3

I'm using .CR3 RAW files from Canon EOS R5. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Version 471.35. I am just updating to NVIDIA driver 496.49 to see if that makes a difference. Switching off Hardware acceleration did the trick, but obviously that is not the final answer.

I can also make the system crash simply by scrolling the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. DELL XPS 15 with NIVIDIA G Force graphics card.

I have experienced multiple crashes when using this new version, mostly in the Develop persona and when using tools in the details tab (noise reduction and detail refinement) This happens whether using a RAW image or a lower resolution JPEG transferred to the develop persona. 1.10.1 was working rather flwlessly...is it possible to revert?

Thank you, and this worked, but only once... subsequent attempts said that "this file type is unsupported"...so it is close to working, I am going to uninstall and try again... No that didn't work either. The only thing that happened between it working and not working was that I downloaded the latest Canon EOS utilities...It is almost as if that has stopped the new beta version from downloading .CR3 files.

The R5 and R6 are selling fast, and there will be a significant demand for this. I much prefer using Affinity to all other pos processing systems and I very much look forward to being able to edit my R5 raw files using Affinity Photo.