The Affinity apps crash my AMD display driver a lot and very random. Most of the times they happen when I move/pan or zoom the view.
The screen where the App is running then will turn black, the system is still a little bit responsible (for example: media buttons still work) but not the display, the secondary display is frozen and it takes around half a minute for AMD to restore the graphics driver (I use the appearing crash report every time), in 99% of the cases the Affinity App has crashed too then. Sometimes (rarely) the graphic driver isn't able to restore itself, then I have to reset the PC, this will result in no crash reports on both sides.
It is more likely to happen when I have Live Effect layers in the document. But sometimes the driver also crashes when I edit vector curves or for example change letter kerning/tracking on Artistic text.
This problem is present in Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher in Version 2 and 1.
Enabling or disabling OpenCL hardware acceleration also has no effect on this issue.
I have this issue for quite a while now and I've waited to report this issue for the OpenCL bug to be fixed, because I thought this might fix the issue. But no luck as it seems.
Just for clarification before the blame is put on AMD again: Adobe Products, DaVinci Resolve, Krita, Blender, Inkscape do not have any issues on my hardware nor did the graphics driver ever crash once while I was using these Apps. In fact Affinity Apps (and Valheim in Vulkan) are the only source of display driver crashes on my PC.
My PC configuration for reference:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (Driver: AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Version 22.11.2) RAM: 32GB @ 3200MHz Display: 2x 1080p (144Hz + 72Hz) OS: Windows 11 Version 22H2 (OS Build 22623.1020)
Crash Reports are attached
49f1e9ca-17cc-4679-931a-835f091b3c53.dmp attachment_Log.txt
