John F H

There is still no crash report. The program doesn't appear to crash it just gets stuck in a high CPU state and the program stops responding. I tried leaving it but it just keeps in that state and I have to kill the process.

I have now done further testing with both the beta version and 1.9 and both don't have the problem if I disable hardware acceleration. This is the first time I have had to do this with any app and I have various image editing and video editing programs. So first, thank you for identifying the issue but will this be fixed in future releases?

that appears to fix the problem

I have repeated the same problem with the beta version. The CPU runs high and the application goes into the state of "not responding"

I don't have a Beta directory as I just have a 1.0 directory. When this problem happens Photo doesn't crash, it just stops responding and I have to kill it. It happens every single time I create this layer structure.

File uploaded 325A6895.afphoto When I select to change the "Highlight" box size it crashes Affinity Photo every time. I created this from the raw file for this test and I re-installed v1.9 for this too. I will revert back to 1.8.5 because I use this technique a lot.

Hi, I am willing to share the file but not on this open forum, if you give me a DM or email I will send it. As for PC spec I am running a Dell XPS13 9370 which has i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz, 1992 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) and 16GB RAM, so a relatively hi-spec. Thanks John

Did you use a hi-res image as the background or a blank document? It happens for me every time, I have given in and reverted back to the older version which works fine

further testing suggests it is not the multiply option on the layer that causes the problem, so it is something to do with the layer group and the gaussian blur, as this example shows it happening without the multiply option on the layer group

this is an example of the problem

I use a layer group, with one black layer covering the whole image and one smaller white rectangle with gaussian blur, with multiply on the layer group to create a vignette. I have found that this causes Photo to run high CPU and become unusable and I have to close the program. This happens on multiple photographs but if I repeat on a new blank image it appears to work. I suspect it is something to do with the fact I have a photo which of course has multiple colours and the gaussian blur with the multiply option on the group, because if I don't have the gaussian blur it appears to work ok. It can happen as soon as I create the layer group, or sometimes it is when I adjust the size of the inner rectangle (the one with the blur). This problem happens every time I try this. This worked perfectly before upgrading to 1.9.0.932.