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app data is a hidden system folder, its nothing to do with admin rights. you will need to open file explorer, go to view , show hidden items (win 11) or view show hidden items check box in the view options then go to users / yourusername/ and you will see appdata at the root or in a folder called default if you have more than one account on the machine. I think its then appdata/localpackages/serifeuropelimited wink wink; to anyone using an old gpu that has cuda cores, but is randomly no longer able to tick hardware acceleration - this may be a way to force gpu acceleration : change settings/performancepreferences file in notepad from false to <UseHardwareAcceleration>True</UseHardwareAcceleration> you will also need to install openCL from windows store and it helps to install the cuda drivers (the old way) not the nvidia (you must buy a new GPU because we dont like your old cuda cores) 'experience' way. or serif could just let us tick the box in preferences when we all moved to win11 and lost all gpu support...tut tut

Split from here by moderator funny but the kepler range has always had OpenCL vulkan and Cuda support in the past. It just seems for some reason that 700 series variants and some M mobile variants have just been dropped by nvidia in the drivers package, and thus for no reason, devs and affinity also no longer allows cuda and openCL hardware improvements - even on win 11. Rendering your system useless if its a AIO unit or a m variant not in the list for 500 onwards drivers. shame - why can't we just force hardware acceleration?? its a tick in a box. There must be a way. I have cuda, i have vulkan and i have openCL. i mean the clue is n the 'open' bit!!! its opensource!! My current error (reason for suddenly no longer supporting my mobile variant of a GPU since v2 came out) in Affinity photo is that i'm running an old operating system so I cant use GPU acceleration. I'm on windows 11 won't be getting v2 until this is fixed or we can just enforce it. There is no valid reason for not supporting even a 7 series card when it clearly has over 1300 cuda cores, more than capable of accelerating the suite. if only i could just tick the box that thinks win 11 is older than win 10.