Mark Ingram

There isn't an unofficial beta, I'm in the process of releasing this new beta. But it seems I've been beaten to it by other "external" sites. Would you mind saying which site you downloaded this file from? I'm just concerned that as it hasn't come from us, you may have downloaded a version that was loaded with malware or viruses.

This is caused by ASUS Sonic or MSI Nehemic:

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Yes please

Can you see if there are any crash reports in %APPDATA%\Affinity\Photo\1.0 (Beta)\CrashReports\reports ?

That's great Michael, I'm glad you're back up and running again! I don't think we knew about this problem when you made your original post. But either way, glad it's sorted now 🙂

Ah OK, that's a hang then. Can you open Task Manager, find Affinity Designer, and right click it, and choose "Create dump file". It will make a large file, probably around 5GB. But if you could upload it somewhere (e.g. Dropbox) then I can take a look at what is causing the hang for you.

@FYITom, it would be useful to make your own thread in the bugs forum, rather than replying to an existing thread in the pre-1.9 beta forum, as many people won't read the old threads for old versions.

I'm the lead engineer for Windows, so I'm pretty well placed to comment on what common crashes we see. Looking at the thread you provided, I identified the original crash was within the NVIDIA driver. We know of a problem with Capture One's Explorer integration, which caused a crash within the NVIDIA driver in other applications, and I notice that the original poster mentioned that they have Capture One installed, so that crash will have been caused by them. I reported this issue to NVIDIA, and they are now aware of it (and can reproduce it). So yes, to re-iterate, the original crash was indeed caused by a crash in a graphics driver, caused by a piece of third party software being installed.

Hi Michael, I appreciate this is late, but it seems your crash will have been caused by the Capture One Explorer integration. You'll notice that Capture One is now listed in the "Issues caused by third party software" thread. NVIDIA are aware of the problem, and I think they may have released an updated driver which prevents the crash.

Do you have any crash reports in %APPDATA%\Affinity\Designer\1.0\CrashReports\reports ?

What are your numbers? How many tests did you run? I tend to run 5 or so, and average the results.

Please note: I've edited this post to reflect a slightly newer 1.10.0.1115 (vs 1.10.0.1112).

Please note: I've edited this post to reflect a slightly newer 1.10.0.1115 (vs 1.10.0.1112).

What GPU do you have? Crash reports are in %APPDATA%\Affinity\Photo\1.0\CrashReports\reports or similar, depending on product, and whether it's a beta (beta is in "1.0 (Beta)" folder).

A lot of the reports that we see are to do with out of date drivers, or drivers that need a clean uninstall and reinstall. Is there a crash you are specifically referring to? For crashes, it's really useful to try to locate the crash report, as well as the log file.

The user is showing the default installation directory for a direct purchase, not a Microsoft Store purchase. @Vinn, I suggest getting the latest version from our store (you should be able to login to get a link).

Probably graphics driver related. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the latest drivers.

Do you have ASUS Sonic or MSI Nahemic installed?

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