nickbatz
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On 10/7/2022 at 8:36 AM, James Ritson said:
Have you tried disabling Automatically adjust brightness, as I think you meant to say you have the Apple Studio display? That has a brightness sensor and will automatically graduate the display brightness according to ambient conditions, so you will be running into the beach ball issue.
I wouldn't advocate disabling Metal Compute and using an OpenGL view unless absolutely necessary, you'll be greatly reducing performance—do try disabling automatic brightness first and see if that helps...
EDIT: THE PROBLEM WAS THAT I HAD BETTERTOUCHTOOL'S CLIPBOARD MANAGER RUNNING.
Special thanks to Dan in Affinity tech support for nailing this with his first response.
I'd like to go back and delete all my comments in this thread about this, but they're too old.
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10 hours ago, Leigh said:
That's good to hear. You shouldn't have to disable Metal on Macs with Apple Silicon but for some users, like yourself, they have to for the app to work. We believe this issue was linked to the automatic brightness setting but some users don't have this option enabled and are still having to disable Metal.
In case it has something else to do with monitors: I have the Max version with the 32-core graphics upsell, and two 4K monitors connected, both scaled down (one is at 3008 x 1692, the other one 1080p [a few feet away]).
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Just to follow up after more time - Leigh's solution (turning off Metal) is the answer. Big difference.
Thanks again.
Oh, a suggestion: it might be a good idea to include a "Preferred Settings for Apple Silicon Users" Read Me with the installation.
That is, unless you did and I missed it - which I certainly wouldn't put past myself.
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Yeah, changing those two settings does seem to help. I just copied a selection from a 300 DPI pixel layer. It took about ten seconds to copy, which brings it back into the realm of First World problems.
I'm leaving the post above intact in case it's helpful to see what the - I think! - solution is.
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9 hours ago, Leigh said:
@nickbatzHave you tried turning off Metal to see if that improves your situation?
These are my current settings (below). I'm guessing Use only integrated GPU should be enabled? it would make sense, given that I'm now endowed with 32 graphics cores.
Edit: and now I see there's another Metal checkbox. Okay will try that. The following sentence may be moot, will see.
To reiterate, copying/pasting selections (from either a pixel or an adjustment layer) is slow as molasses, so something seems wrong.
Thanks.
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9 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
Ah, I have never used any of the applications you people have listed.
Well, one of them is Affinity Photo.
Photos taken on an iPhone or iPad are (or can be) sent to Apple's iCloud, and your library is synced with all your Apple devices. If you want to open a photo in an editor, this feature means you don't have to save the file first. And it means you don't have to send the file from your iPhone to your computer.
Also, you access ProRAW pictures this way.
Much as I abhor subscriptions, it's worth $3/month (if you fill up the free storage and need more) just for this.
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57 minutes ago, Stephen Hart said:
I have seen an issue where Command Return (= Edit With Last Used Application) doesn't work. Also, if Affinity Photo is shut down, it has to start up before the command takes effect. I think Affinity Photo starts up much faster now, whether that's the Mac Studio or 12.6 or an Affinity Photo update or some combination, I don't know.
Having the Photos library on the main drive seems to work much better, one of the reasons I opted for plenty of internal SSD space.
Yeah, I paid way too much for internal storage too (4TB).
But I don't regret it. Apart from the convenience, Apple has made virtual memory swapping way faster, and the conventional practice of keeping things off your system drive has changed. And while you still need RAM for real-time applications, this storage is ridiculously fast.
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And wasn't Affinity Photo one of the programs Apple bragged about in one of their product intros - I think the M1 MacBook Pros?
Also, another question: is it better to run the program in Rosetta mode?
I guess the answer is for me to try rather than asking.
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New Mac Studio here (M1 Max, 32-core graphics, 64GB). I just did a search hoping to find the recommended settings for my machine, and this thread came up.
Same lagging behavior, especially copying and pasting - which is what I'm doing here.
Well, this report isn't providing any new information.
Is the macOS version due next month any better?
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I'll have to try Edit With on the new Mac (as soon as I teach Photos where its library is!). It worked sporadically, and then very slowly, on my previous Mac.
Actually, I wonder whether the reason it didn't work is just that - the photo library isn't where it expects to see it.
The waking issue manifests itself differently on my setup, as I said, but it sounds like a variation of the same thing.
macOS 12.6 here too.
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This is when you wake the machine from sleep, right?
If so, what's going on is that the monitor is syncing after the windows are drawn, and the Mac thinks you're using a smaller monitor.
I have that problem on my new Mac Studio too. Apple is aware of the issue, but I don't know whether they're expecting to be able to provide a solution.
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Update: this issue does not exist on my new machine (Mac Studio, Max, 64GB, 32-core graphics).
For what it's worth to Bruce whose name is not Bruce and others.
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Adobe is a public company, so they have to remain big. Smaller private companies are different.
Anyway, I for one would have no problem with their raising their prices for updates. It's subscriptions that I absolutely hate, rationally or not.
The main reason is that I lived through a thankfully temporary loss of income during the Great Recession, when I couldn't have afforded to keep subscriptions going (or they would have been a burden). No thanks, I don't want to be unable to access the tools I need, much less old projects.
Now, I happen to use a lot of music and audio software from many companies, so it would be cumulative if they were all subscriptions. As I said, my aversion may not be totally rational. But the anxiety is real!
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10 hours ago, PaulEC said:
I find it slightly sad that so many people only seem to use Affinity to avoid paying a subscription to Adobe. Maybe I'm in a minority, but I actually like the Affinity products
Don't tell anyone, but I didn't even realize Affinity Photo was a substitute for Photoshop until months after I bought the license and had become addicted!
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On 8/15/2022 at 1:39 PM, R C-R said:
Why is it any more or less probable than something in AP that apparently affects only your system?
Besides, it isn't just how long you have been running the other stuff, but also about determining if anything has damaged any of them since they were first installed or last updated.
Bruce, you are patronizing me again.
I promise you, I may be stupid but I'm demonstrably not a know-nothing idiot.
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On 8/15/2022 at 1:18 PM, thomaso said:
Yes, you can test only this in Safe boot mode. Open APhoto, check the RAM, open some images + do some work, check the RAM, close APhoto, check the RAM again. This does tell you what you want to know about RAM but with reduced possibly influence of the funny things you mentioned before. That is why Apple named this Safe boot mode.
A confused statement. If you want to detect a culprit for a problem you want to solve then the thought what app you need or not is irrelevant. Instead the point is in testing and reducing influence of as many items as possible to finally narrow the problem down to ideally 1 culprit.
Even if, no, especially if you indeed work with Apple computers for 50 or 49 years you can be aware that the operating system, the CPU and kernels, the memory management etc. have changed massively during that time which makes experiences and possible problem solutions of earlier times quite useless.
I truly get all that.
Truly.
Seriously.
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44 minutes ago, R C-R said:
Since it could be something besides AP that is the problem, you need to start considering if there is a problem with any of the other apps you run, including the ones you say you always need. That doesn't necessarily mean not using them, but if one or more is corrupted or otherwise compromised, then you need to fix that.
Possible but not probable.
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I do appreciate all the help. Sorry if I sound even grumpier than usual.
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11 minutes ago, R C-R said:
Do you mean the entire system becomes unstable and/or slows down or is it just certain apps?
It's most noticeable in Logic Pro X, because it's a real-time program. But I've noticed slowing in Word, and the machine has grumbled when launching other programs.
Another thought just occurred to me: sometimes I use Edit With [Affinity Photo] in Photos, the Apple program that keeps iPhone photos synced between Apple devices and iCloud. Edit With doesn't usually work - it just sits there (or worse, turns the photo into a blank white page on all devices!).
While I don't *think* I can trace this issue to using Edit With, it's worth checking, because that could be an explanation. If the Mac is trying to sync photos all over the universe, that could well cause a clustershag.
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1 minute ago, R C-R said:
AP does cache files temporarily for recovery, but the cached items are stored in files in the user's Library/Application Support folder, not in memory. It would not make any since to keep them in memory since if the app crashed & system was restarted, there would be nothing in memory to restore.
Right, I probably should have deleted that sentence before posting (because it doesn't make sense).
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7 minutes ago, R C-R said:
Besides having less free memory than you expected available after quitting AP, what specifically is it that you consider to be a problem? If it is just that some other app(s) do not seem to work as quickly as expected, or is there more to it than that?
Again, please consider that there are likely to be many items still in memory after quitting AP because they are shared by other processes which either still might be running, or the OS determines it is likely that they will be needed again soon, so the memory they use will not be freed up. If any of the other apps are using any of those items or soon will be, there may be something specific to one of those apps that is causing them to slow down.
Could well be. But ideally I wouldn't have to restart the computer.
M1 / Mac Monterey - Affinity Photo etc now has the wheel of death quite a lot
in V1 Bugs found on macOS
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Discusses a problem that doesn't exist.
Deleted because the problem was solved and my post is no longer relevant.