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I do not have V1, and (un?)fortunately, I haven't experienced that weird lag/gpu artifacting again. Granted, it's only been a day or so, so maybe it'll come back. I'll update the thread if something happens again.

I bought Photo v2 yesterday and I'm mostly liking it. Just today though, I was experiencing some HEAVY lag. I wish I could remember exactly what I was doing to cause it. I KNOW I experienced once crash when I clicked "rasterize layer" on a layer that was just a simple, black rectangle. And ~20 minutes ago, it got really bad. I closed the program, thinking it was the project I was in, but when I restarted the program, it was still lagging. Even when no project was loaded. (and yes, I disabled Hardware Acceleration to see if that fixed it. it didn't) I closed the program after that and went on Twitter to mindlessly scroll for a bit. Which is when this started happening. Obviously something's going on here that shouldn't, but I don't know what. I restarted my computer, and I still saw some slight artifcating. So I unplugged my computer, reseated the graphics card, and now I don't see those artifacts while browsing the web. I'm too scared to launch Affinity Photo again in case it messes something up permanently 💀 My computer is used to stressful loads. I work in semi-complicated projects in DaVinci Resolve (video editor) as well as play a lot of modern, graphically intense games with my 3060 gpu and have encountered nothing like this. So it's not like what I was trying to do was out of the ordinary for my system. And I haven't done complicated projects in Photo v2 either. I'm pretty sure I was working on a project with two layers, containing two drawn rectangles, fiddling around with mask stuff. Before that, I was working on creating (relatively) simple YouTube thumbnails. Not sure what's going on here. Maybe there's just a weird interaction with my hardware causing this problem, but I figured I'd just throw it out there anyway.

Ah, I see. That's pretty helpful. Another tangentially related question. When I drag to create a gradient with the Gradient Tool, I notice it doesn't update my current color in the color window to match that gradient. I came across this video, where the guy draws a gradient, edits it on the top bar, and after he selects the Move Tool, the gradient color is reflected under the Color window. If I do that, where the gradient should be is just the color black. Because of this, I'm unable to save a gradient as a Swatch. I know that using the gradient map adjustment and saving a preset that way would kinda work for my use case, but I like being able to drag the gradient around to get the perfect angle.

I have some settings for a Gradient Map that I like, so I click "Add Preset" to save those colors and their values but... where does it save to? I would have thought it'd save to this pop-up menu, but there's nothing here. Is there another screen I'm missing that has all my saved gradient presets?