Cadarnfel

as someone who uses Affinity apps on both macOS and Windows, what sort of system will provide the most enjoyable experience comes down to how much money you want to spend. Macs are always going to be expensive, off-the-shelf Windows systems with any sort of performance will be less expensive, but usually the specs are throttled in some fashion (great CPU/memory, low-end GPU, for example). Build to order is still your best bet, if you find a company where you can configure a system online, and they'll build it for you. My current Windows box was done this way, I simply couldn't be bothered building it myself, after too many years of doing so. I'll echo the comments about RAM, more is always better. As far as GPU is concerned I have an nVidia RTX3070 which doesn't struggle very much (although my Affinity usage will probably differ from yours). In my opinion, the best thing to do, is decide on how much you want to spend, and then look at what's available.

Try rotating your phone to landscape mode

Okay, do other applications show up on the external monitor? If the AD window is on the MacBook, can you move it to the monitor, either by dragging, or using the Window/Move To menu item? I can move the AD window to any of my three external monitors, without any issues, unless I have put AD into fullscreen mode, and then it can't be moved (same as any other application).

What error or problem are you seeing - I'm running 12.6 and Designer 1.10.5 and have not seen any issues (my use is limited, but the application starts, and I can open and edit a number of files)

For what it's worth, I'm running release versions of all three Affinity programs on Windows 11 with Hardware acceleration turned on, and don't experience any issues.

Ali mentioned in another thread about signing in while running the apps with administrator privilege - this worked for me.

Thanks Ali, that worked for me to

I see some other posts with the same issue, so it's not just me 😀 Will wait and see what happens

I've just reinstalled the Affinity apps on my Windows machine, and when I go to My Account, and try to sign in, it takes a few moments and then the message: Timeout while waiting for registration service "ready" notification comes up. My network and internet all appear to be working fine - is there an issue with the registration service systems? Edited to add, the message comes with a Try Again and a Remind Me Later button. Have tried again, and then tried again after about an hour thanks

Custom built i9 11th Generation, running at 5GHz, with 128GB RAM Windows 11 Pro