Mark Ingram

1. Technically that's already possible now, but DxO Photolab has a bug in it that prevents it from working with the "App Execution Alias". Using the legacy MSI installer will allow you to find the Photo2.exe in your installation and have DxO Photolab point at it (just the same as v1). If you want to use DxO Photolab with the v2 MSIX installer, you can use the aflaunch app here to work around their bug: 2. I don't know when you started your trial, so I can't say. 3. No, the trials are for a single 30 day period. 4. I can't comment on when the MSI installers will be available, but we hope it won't be a long wait. For now, I suggest you try the aflaunch approach, as that will allow you to evaluate the app fully during the trial period.

I’m not sure what you mean here. Did you register your Universal Licence with your Affinity ID?

The downside of that is we lose the height of the menu bar. As the title bar is “wasted” space, we can maximise vertical space by combining the menu bar and title bar.

Please don’t accuse people of lying, especially when you have zero evidence to back up your claim. I’m the Windows Tech Lead, and we implemented a custom drawn window for the app, which means that the Windows OS does not automatically provide shadows for us. We could spend time implementing the missing shadows, or we could work on bug fixes and features instead. It all comes down to priorities - there is no conspiracy.

Did you register the licence to an Affinity ID after you purchased the licence?

Sorry the apps don’t support Windows 8.1. You need Windows 10 May 2020 (build 19041) or later.

That still won’t help unfortunately. The app does not support Windows 7.

Yes - if you already have the MSIX installed, it'll prompt you to update and perform the update in-app. There's no need for you to change anything 🙂

Yes, we will be providing MSI installers to customers who require them. This FAQ will be updated with links to MSI downloads when they become available. Yes. These are now available

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed. We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers to, those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long. Thanks for your feedback!

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed. We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers, to those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long. Thanks for your feedback!

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed. We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers, to those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long. Thanks for your feedback!

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed. We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers to those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long. Thanks for your feedback!

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed. We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers to those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long. Thanks for your feedback!

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed. We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers, to those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long. Thanks for your feedback!

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed. We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers to those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long. Thanks for your feedback!

There is zero need for Revo Uninstaller Pro when using MSIX - you are guaranteed a clean uninstall, that's one of the benefits over MSI!

You download the previous version and just install it. Yes you can download full copies if you really want to.

The biggest benefit of switching to MSIX is the easier, smaller and faster in-app updates that weren’t previously available in v1. Customers wanted a better update experience from what we offered in v1, and MSIX allowed us to deliver that. Obviously as there has been no updates yet, no-one in this thread has experienced that yet.

None of that is true. Reasons can be found at the FAQ:

Nope sorry, we prevent moving licences between machines for obvious reasons 🙂

That's the official App Execution Alias which the MSIX installer creates for us - and is the recommended way of launching our apps - if your third-party software supports it. If the third-party software has a bug in it, I provide the aflaunch app to work around that. Basically, if C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\AffinityPhoto2.exe works, then use it 🙂

For what it’s worth, I developed (parts of) the apps on a Dell XPS 15 initially running Windows 10 then later upgraded to Windows 11, so I can absolutely confirm that v2 should work on that machine 🙂

No problem - glad you're sorted.

After you did the in-app purchase, you should have been presented with a screen similar to: Did you see something like this? Did you create an account / use an existing account?