[Photo and Designer still freezing / 1.10.6]

On 7/19/2023 at 1:19 PM, Dan C said:

In regards to your V1 screenshot, I'd recommend unticking Hardware Acceleration at the bottom of this dialog, then changing the Display from Metal to OpenGL. Now restart the app as prompted and try editing your document once again - hopefully this will reduce the freezing behaviour for you

Thanks Dan, I've done a few of my usual tasks and have not yet had the freeze issue. I appreciate your support and realise I shouldn't have been so negative. Thanks v_kyr also. 

[Photo and Designer still freezing / 1.10.6]

Thanks Dan, apologies for the digression into a comment about v2. It's just that Ive had this issue with V1 for a while and haven't seen any conclusion with updates so wondered if it would continue into V2. Pure speculation only.

Anyway, for now, here is the performance window you requested 

[Photo and Designer still freezing / 1.10.6]

Thank you:

• Ventura 13.2
• Not on startup (startup is fast)
• Before any file is loaded it can freeze for 10 seconds or so, and also after loading a project file it'll freeze regularly for around 10 seconds. 
• My projects tend to have a screen shot with text over the top (I'm doing YouTube Thumbnails) but the screen shots are about 10Mb files so in GPU terms I wouldn't imagine this to be an issue. I run Unity and also OBS recording with no frame drops.
• I don't see this as a memory intensive issue as I will use Affinity Photo without Unity or OBS running. I see in Activity Monitor that Affinity Photo CPU usage spikes if I select a layer such as a font or an image and then drops down later on (see attached). 

[Photo and Designer still freezing / 1.10.6]

I've had this freezing problem most of the time Ive been using Affinity Photo & Designer and see other posts about it but haven't yet seen a guide to solving this. Nothing else is having issues on my M1 Mac (32GB RAM) except Affinity Photo & Designer. I'm reluctant to upgrade to V2 as I see the same issues there too.

Any suggestions for fixing Affinity would be grateful. Thanks

[Beach ball]

Same here. strange. 

[Beach ball]

Ive unselected metal / restarted, and selected metal / restarted and so far Ive not had the problem. I need to do other work now but will report back if the issue remains. Thanks

[Beach ball]

I'm having a similar problem with a MacBook Pro M1 with 32G Ram. I get the beach ball every 30 sec or so for around ten seconds. I am saving on the internal hard drive. Auto save is set to 300 seconds so I don't think that is the issue. metal acceleration is also enabled.