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Still no obvious lag for me. As mentioned above, I can't reproduce the redrawing bug anymore anyway so still can't see that after this change in Retina Rendering setting. But will of course let you know if I come across it again.

That's interesting. I never experienced this as a lag in which I just had to wait, I only experienced this situation in the video where I had to hover and move the cursor over the area to get it to redraw. Anyway, thanks for logging it.

Thanks everyone for responding, I really appreciate it. It was always quite unpredictable when this bug was going to occur and I wasn't able to get a small, reliable reproducible example. I have updated to 2.0.4. I can't reproduce the issue at the moment. I've attached (a redacted version of) the file that was causing my trouble before in case it does prove useful. The layer I was drawing on was the 'Sketch' layer of the attached file. It was just opened from V2 Designer. I find artboards handy for resizing canvases visually, but I could avoid using that feature if they are known to cause problems? I've attached a reduced version of the file. BugRepro3.afphoto The canvas size is not especially extreme, 5361x5361.

Nah I'm on macOS on a MacBook Pro, not iPad, so just a standard turn-it-off-and-on-again of the laptop. Affinity Photo 2.0.3 macOS 13.1 (22C65) Apple M1 Pro

Sometimes, when I make a brush stroke, it doesn't show up until I shake the cursor around a bit. Sometimes gets stuck in this state and restarting the application/machine doesn't help. This occurs with and without Metal compute acceleration enabled With Metal compute acceleration disabled, using the 'Software' Display mode (in Settings>Performance), I cannot reproduce this issue (but of course that's dead slow) With Metal compute acceleration disabled, using any other Display mode ('OpenGL (Basic)', 'OpenGL', 'Metal'), this issue occurs This occurs in both Photo 2 and Designer 2 AP2Bug.mov

Copied into V2 issues category here as the issue persists there:

I'm on Affinity Designer v2.0.0 Vector brush strokes look too thin after using 'Expand Stroke'. After some experimentation, it appears that this happens only when Size Variance is not at 100%. Scribble a new vector brush stroke Select the move tool In the 'Stroke' panel click 'Properties...' Set Size Variance to 50% Set the controller to Pressure Set the controller profile to any of the standard profiles Close the Properties Set the pressure of the stroke to something non-trivial Click Layer > Expand Stroke Expected: The stroke will be expanded without changing width Actual: The stroke becomes thinner It manages to take the controller profile into account okay, as long as the size variance is at 100% so one workaround is to set the size variance to 100% and then adjust the controller profile to have the same effect. This also affects PDF export. Attachments were produced in v1.10.4 but the effect is still the same expand_stroke_size_variance_demo.mov expand_stroke_size_variance_workaround.mov expand_stroke_pressure.afdesign

I'm on Affinity Designer v1.10.4 Vector brush strokes look too thin after using 'Expand Stroke'. After some experimentation, it appears that this happens only when Size Variance is not at 100%. Scribble a new vector brush stroke Select the move tool In the 'Stroke' panel click 'Properties...' Set Size Variance to 50% Set the controller to Pressure Set the controller profile to any of the standard profiles Close the Properties Set the pressure of the stroke to something non-trivial Click Layer > Expand Stroke Expected: The stroke will be expanded without changing width Actual: The stroke becomes thinner It manages to take the controller profile into account okay, as long as the size variance is at 100% so one workaround is to set the size variance to 100% and then adjust the controller profile to have the same effect. This also affects PDF export. expand_stroke_size_variance.afdesign expand_stroke_size_variance_demo.mov expand_stroke_size_variance_workaround.mov

The difference in thickness between the desired and expanded curves is neither constant nor proportional to the thickness of the desired curve. See screenshots pre and post expansion, source afdesign file attached: It's also interesting to me that this curve doesn't taper down to 0 width, since the pressure profile does. This curve was created with the vector brush tool and then modified. The same curve created with the pen tool with the same pressure profile does taper down to zero width and does expand properly. expand_stroke_pressure.afdesign