Ben Weston

Thanks Leigh. So sorry to have added confusion to this; I've realised my Windows 10 install is using the last 'stable' (Recommended - WHQL) release of AMD's drivers: 22.5.1. I strongly suspect this is why I'm no longer seeing any instability. Sorry to have muddied the waters. Thanks for linking the OpenCL information. Hadn't seen this. (Really appreciate all the work you guys do and the quality of your software, by the way 👌)

I'm afraid I've now reverted to Windows 10 so can't provide this. However, on the same drivers now on Windows 10, I'm no longer getting any crashes with Designer! It still tells me my system isn't "modern" enough to enable OpenCL but I've not had a single crash since reverting to 10.

Sure. Have attached the latest one. b38e1437-56d3-4c75-ba94-75e4acdfb668.dmp

My Log.txt is pretty sparse considering how many crashes I've had: Installed Wintab: Failed to load Wintab32.dll Wintab: Failed to create tablet context Attempting to create Direct3D device with adapter AMD Radeon RX 6800 Setting screen DPI to 93.3582196697775 (scale = 1.75) Exit

No component damage. I've actually migrated this card to a new system in the time it's been happening (the card is the only thing I kept) and it's still doing it. Yes, I think the earliest I tried was 22.2.1 but I'm happy to try a specific version if you need me to.

Came here to report exactly the same bug. Affinity Designer completely crashing the AMD driver at least two or three times a day requiring a full driver restart to recover. There's seemingly no pattern to it; Designer could be minimised and running in the background, having not been touched for an hour, and suddenly crash the system. Other times, it'll be as I'm actively working in it. The only constant is that Designer is open. I'm on a Radeon RX 6800. Have tried every AMD Adrenalin version going back 6 months and currently running 22.8.2. Affinity Designer is the only app that crashes. I can't enable OpenCL as it tells me my system is unsupported (says I need at least Windows 10 and I'm running Windows 11 - screenshot below). Have tried the WARP and Radeon 6800 renderers with no change in crashes.