LSG501

This is part of the reason I use an email address that isn't that important for things like forums (it was already known by the adobe hack) and very rarely add anything of importance to my profile. Unfortunately it is one of the pitfalls of being online and using 'off the shelf' forum software (I can understand from a cost perspective though) which might have bugs etc that are missed from time to time. I'm also lucky in my ISP doesn't give away my location and it actually randomly changes within their infrastructure, at best they'll know which country I'm from. My IP is likely getting pinged on a regular basis anyway and seeing as an IP is basically just a set of random numbers in a set layout any decent script kiddy could probably write a bit of software that does it all automatically.... but like others I'm not sure why it's needed to stored so long and why it's not limited to the first 3-6 digits (IP4 anyway) However... I do hope this will make the forum admin side of things more secure, not sure on the software features but restrict access to key accounts to certain IP's, I'd hope 2 factor sign in (although I do know of android hacks which kind of makes that useless if it's mobile phone number though) was already on etc. Like others I am more concerned that the store doesn't have 2fa, luckily I paid with paypal that DOES have 2fa, so it's not like they'll be able to get anything there.... As for the software sign in, you could have 2fa for the first sign in (optional for all sign in) and then create a digital token/key for that machine that takes into account specific hardware/software of the pc being used. It's basically what Microsoft does with a new windows install/licence... they only bug you about usage if your license is invalid or your hardware has significant changes.

Take it you've missed the specs for forspoken lol Pretty sure I'm running latest studio, that's what I normally pick but windows could have overwritten it with windows being windows.... I'll get the work done and then look at playing around some more.

My fonts are on a 2TB firecuda 530 (gen4 nvme) where I only keep a limited amount installed and like I said I don't even have a hard drive in this rig lol. The primary font I'm using isn't a fancy font with all the flourishes etc, it's just plain old source sans pro. I remembered I could do the benchmark in photo and it came in at over 10,700 for raster and nearly 5,900 for combined.... so it can't be 'that bad' lol I have got to get round to installing on my laptop but to be fair it wouldn't be like for like, windows 11 vs windows 10, less ram, the ssd is definitely slower, intel 12700h and a mobile 3060 (60w iirc). No harm in checking it when I get a chance though.

Yeah I've tried both ways, in my case it feels a little better with it turned on so I've left it on. Haven't even got my wacom drivers installed, haven't been using it much of late... I have a feeling that when I get the 4000 series card (eventually, just got a feeling that sods law would see a price drop just after buying....) it will likely cure the major issues but at the same time it still doesn't explain why even the most basic things are causing it to lag on a 1060 6GB (the fan doesn't even spin up, it has 0rpm mode....), which to be fair is more than enough for dtp work and something that I never noticed on v1 with the same hardware (well only 64GB ram at that time). Mind you it would be far better if Affinity actually implemented support for cuda as well rather than just opencl, it's far more 'robust' as a gpu processing language. Like you say opencl isn't exactly great and in most of the software I've used with gpu encoding/rendering they've usually dropped opencl due to poor feature stack etc. edit: should also say I'm using the new msi installers rather than msix (hate the idea of no control over install locations)

You can throw me into the designer v2 is lagging group.... I've reduced the undo, I've maxed the file recovery interval, increased the disk usage warning to 3/4 of the ram usage limit (64Gigs), opencl is active. I have noticed text lagging when typing or it just doesn't appear. If I've gone from split screen where affinity was half the screen and say edge/firefox was the other half, the second side has blurred text when I put affinity back to full screen, only fixing after a scroll/refresh to go back to 'in focus'. This would maybe point me towards direct-x/open-cl as being a possible cause... but I'm not an expert. Task manager isn't showing anything to worry over, no excessive cpu usage, no excessive ram usage, no excessive drive usage and even the gpu isn't being stressed hard. The thing that makes it worse is that I shouldn't really be getting any sort of lag with my system.... Ryzen 5950x (16c/32t), 128GB ram (twice the 'max ram' in affinity), 2x2TB NVME (one for os/programs, the other is a scratch disk and has a secondary page file on it), another 6 sata ssd's for storing stuff and a gtx1060 6gb.... so I can basically rule out 'slow hard drives' being the issue because I don't have any.... Yes my gpu is a little older (4000 series coming soon) but if my pc can cope with things like 3ds max/blender without issue then I shouldn't really be getting lag in a a dtp program...

While I've bought v2 due to the low price offer I can't say I'm overly happy about needing to use msix to install it. I've literally signed up to the forum to put my name down as 'unhappy' about this move. The MSIX installer doesn't even tell me where the programs are going to be installed, when I find the likely location (thanks google...) I then need to take ownership of the folder just to see what's inside it. When I used MS store apps or msix in the past I've also had more issues with the programs than I have with good old fashioned msi/exe installers. We'll not even get on to the issue about having no control of the software that is being installed onto our pc's, msix is one step away from malware in some respects. Oh and the FAQ... I don't agree with a lot of the pros for using ONLY msix.... I like the fact that msi requires admin privileges and imo it's a con that msix didn't when I installed it. I've had plenty of non msix installed programs do updates that didn't require the full program to be downloaded again.... not that 550megs is much these days. MSI installers can uninstall cleanly if coded correctly to start with.... IF affinity did their own asset management program, that many want (and were kind of expecting with v2) you wouldn't need to use ms photos (which is pretty bad and nobody should be using imo) for 'edit in...' style features. The cons are great though... More work to move stuff to a preferred location versus just entering it at the start... but in all honesty move might as well not be there because it doesn't go any further than drive level....it's no good if I want it on my c:\ drive but in a specific folder. We'll need an app to fix third party bugs with App Execution Alias ... we only need the app, which I'm guessing will have to run in the background and all the time, because you've used msix as the install method...